Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

eobbign ns we Advices from Afghanistan report Gen, BolxatH mar.hing to the relief of Candahai with a force of 10,000 men. Gen. Burrows’ loss in the recent engagement is officially stated to have boon less than 1,000, of which 600 were native.!. It is feared in London that Capts. Carter anrl Cadenhcad, of the Belgian African exploring expedition, have been murdered in Central Africa. The report that a shipload of Mohammedan pilgrims bound for Jiddali, Arabia, had been lost at sea proves to be false. The vessel has arrived at Aden in safety. Harvest prospects in England qre said to he splendid. England has telegraphed a circular to all the powers, proposing a new joint note to Turkey, entirely rejecting the last suggestion of the Porto, and insisting upon tho fulfillment of the original mandate. Trouble is brewing between Roumania and Bulgaria, The latter power refuses to eedo a slice of territory to the former, and hence tho trouble. Should hostilities ensue, Russia will have a hand in. * A Home-Rule demonstration at Glasgow was attended by thirty thbusand Irishmen, gathered from all parts of Scotland. Crop reports from England, France and other parts of Europe indicate a limited yield of wheat, which will make importation from America very necessary. Tho Chinese Minister at Washington has given notioo that his Government has, by official decree, removed the ancient restrictions on commerce, and that the Celestials may hereafter trade with foreigners at will. A cable dispatch announces the death of the world-famous personages—Marshal Bazaine and Adelaide Neilson, the actress.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Hon. John Bigler, of Pennsylvania, ox-Govornor anil ox-United States (Senator, is dead. Ho began life an a printer. A traveling salesman for a New York Jewelry house left hw room in a hotel at Utica, N. Y.. unlocked, and on returning found that his trunk had been relieved of §15,000 worth of diamonds. Afire among the shipping and in the lumber yards at Hunter’s Point, opposite New York city, destroyed §500,000 worth of property. The population of Massachusetts is 1,78.1,872, a gain of over 000,000 in ten years. The Captain, engineer and owners of the recently burned steamer Soawanhaks, together willi four Government inspectors of life boats, have been indicted for manslaughter by tbo Federal Grand Jure at X w York. Tanner’s remarkable digestive powers and rapid recuperation have caused as much wonderment as his unpreefttented fast. In' the seventy-eight liouflj fol-' lowing the conclusion of lfis fort* days’ abstinence from food ho gained in weigß nearly twenty pounds, or at the rato of founßumcos nil hour. During this period ho ate voraciously and at intervals of every hour or so, his diet consisting principally of beefsteak, potatoes, toast, milk, wine, watermelon and fruit. l)r. Work (one of bis attcndasA) says the fact that Tanner lias such a groat appetite and such remarkable digestive powers shows conclusively that ho was not reduced to the condition of inaction, even by forty days’abstmenco from food, and that ho could have gone on lasting several days longer. Burglars blew open a safe at Clarkviilo, N. J., and carried off $25,000 worth of railway securities belonging to Mr. T. E. Hunt. An accident to an excursion train near Atlantic City, N. J., resulted in tho killing of two persons and the serious injuring of some thirty others. The excursion train accident near Atlantic City turns out to have been a more serious affair than first reports indicated. Tho deaths already number fifteen at this writing, and others aro expected to die. The following description of the scene at the time of the collision is telegraphed from Atlantic City : *“Of the persons on the rear platform o the first train Borne jumped to tho ground and then rushed panic-stricken back into the cars. 'J he locomotive came .bounding on and crashed into the rear car, still standing upon the bridge, 'and with such force that tho engine fairly plowed a furrow half way into the car, and lifting the roof of tho cor over tho smoke-stack. The shock broke one of the cylinders of the boiler, and instantly scalding water was poured upon the affrighted and helpless occupants of the car. Ilain had been pouring down, and all tbo windows of the car were down, and, tlio steam filling it instantly, added to the horror of the occasion and suffering of the victims. From out of the concealing vapor came the shrieks of women, wails of children, aud yells of men. The people on the first train ran pellmell from the cars or jumped through the windows, and it was some time before they became sufficiently composed to make earnest efforts to rescue the injured and relievo their sufferings. Two freight trains collided on the Susquehanna division of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s railroad, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Twenty-five cars were demolished, two men killed, and several injured. A collision on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Freedom, Pa., resulted in serious injuries to many of the passengers. Alexander W. Rook, Esq., senior proprietor of tho Pittsburgh Dispatch, is dead. ’West. Three men were killed and several seriously injured by a threshing-machine explosion at Lakeland, Minn. The old couple, supposed to be the bloodthirsty Bender and his wife, lately arrested in Dodge comity, Neb., turn out to be gross impostors. When they arrived at tho scene of the Bender atrocities in Labette county, Kansas, they were found to bear no resemblance to the original Benders. They are tramps, and undoubtedly personated the Cherryvnle butchers with a view of obtaining a free railroad ride, in which they succeeded. Tho dreaded Spanish fever has broken out among Texas oattle in the vicinity of Moboriy, Mo. Col. Grierson is still pursuing and fighting Victoria’s band of savages in Arizona, and Now Mexico. On the lltli of August the thermometer stood 106 in the shade at Bismarck, on the Northern Pacific railroad. Advices from Portland, Ore., report considerable restlessness among the Indians in tbo whole upper country, thongh the season is so far advanced that no active hostilities are anticipated this year. The special census agent sent out from Washington to revise the oensus of St. Louis has completed his work, and the popula-

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tion of the “Future Great” is found to be 333,577, about 30,000 more than in 1870. A letter to the Des Moines Register, from a respectable citizen of lowa—Mr. 8. A James, of Sigourney—gives tho information on the authority of an eye-witness, also a responsible man, that the notorious Bender family, four in number, were captured soon after the discovery of the murder of CoL York’s brother, and shot. He says that the four were stood up in a row facing nine riflemen, ajid were told their fate. That Kate was plucky to the last, and called upon the captors to “shoot and be ,” and that the four bodies were buried at the corner of the four counties of Labette, Wilson, Neosho and Montgomery. A correspondent of the Chicago Times at Oswego, Kan., who claims to have been in at the death of the Benders, tell substantially the same story. Charles Richmond, a Northern Pacific railroad conductor, shot and killed his wife, and then himself, at St. Paul. One man was killed and seven badly hurt by a railroad accident near Lafayette, Ind. A farmer of Pratt county, Minn., named Robert Sirnley, drove into a small lake with his wife and three boys to water his horses. The horses became frightened and overturned the wagon. Sirnley saved his wife, but the lads were drowned. The Union Pacific Railroad Company has contracted for a monument to the memory of Oliver and Oakes Amos, to bo located in Wyoming, at the highest point of tlio Rocky mountains, and to cost SBO,OOO. Col. Grierson, from Sulphur Springs, N. M., reports that Victoria has been driven into Mexico again, with a loss of many warriors and a considerable part of his animals and supplies. . The little village of Red Hill, Col., a station on the South Park read, had every house in it blown to atoms by the explosion of about 1,000 pounds of powder which was stored in the depot. Two men wore killed and two others badly injured. South. A series of heavy rain-storms in nil parts of North Carolina have seriously damaged tho grain and cotton crops. Tho condition of the cotton crop throughout the Southern States is unusually good, and an unprecedented yield is predicted. Florida will produce an immense crop of oranges this year. A number of prisoners in the jail at Larelo, Tex., broke out, a«d, making for the river, undertook to swim across. Tho Sheriff and the posse pursued, and, standing on tho bank, fired at the men in tho water. Two were killed. Indians attacked a mail coach between Forts Concho and Davis, in Northwestern Texas, killing two passengers and wounding ■ another. Tho whole region is said to be alive with hostile Bavages. Nearly complete returns from Arkansas show that it lias a population of about 811,000. Ellerson Hampton, colored, was hanged at Sumter, S. C., on the 13th inst., for the murder of a child. South Carolina papers estimate the population of the State at 953,000, a gain of 34 per cent, since 1870. A party named Charles Carver, residing in Woodstock, Va., lias began a fast of 100 days’ duration. Should he succeed in his experiment he will challenge Dr. Tanner to a competitive match.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It is stated from Washington that a United States vessel will bo kept in Spanish waters to boo that no outrage or indignity is offered to American merchant-vessels. ] luring the fiscal year ending June 30,1880, the net imports of gold to this country were *77,153,331. # POLITICAL POINTS. Tho Michigan Greenbackers have nominated David Woodman for Governor. The Georgia Democratic Convention balloted a week in a vain effort to effect a nomination for Governor, on account of the prevalence of the two-thirds rule. Gov. Colquitt received a majority vote in every ballot, but, owing to the bitterness of the feeling against him, he was unable to secure the requisite two-thirds. It was finally decided to leave tho matter to the people, the majority of the delegates recommending Gov. Colquitt. The remainder of tho State ticket and an electoral .ticket were nominated, and the convention adjourned. Gov. O. M. Roberta has been nominated for re-election by the Democrats of Texas. The Connecticut Republicans have nominated Mayor Bigelow, of Now Haven, for Governor. Judge Ezra B. Taylor, of Trumbull county, Ohio, has been nominated for Con“gress by the Republicans of Gen. Garfield’s district. The Liberal League will hold its National Convention in Chicago on Sept. 17, 18 and 19. A State Convention of the Democratic party of Michigan was held at Detroit on the 12tli inst.., at which candidates for all the State offices and for Presidential electors were placed in tho field. Following are the nominees: Governor, F. M. Holloway, Hillsdale ; Lieutenant Governor, E H. Thompson, Genesee; Treasurer, J. M. Aleston; Auditor, Gen. Richard Moore, Clinton ; Commissioner of the Land Office, James J. David, Wayne ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Z. Linesdale, Oakland ; member of tho State Board of Education, Albert Crane, Washtenaw. Electors—AtLarge, Archibald McDonnell, Bay; Peter White, Marquette; Districts, William Faxon, H. J. Beakes, Janies S. Upton, Germain H. Mason, Hiram B. Beck, Jerome Eddy, Wildman Mills, William R. Marsh, James Dempsey. The regular Democratic Convention of Tennessee, after a three days’ session, nominated Judge Wright for Governor. A convention of bolters, consisting of low-tax or debtrepudiating Democrats, have nominated Hon S. F. Wilson for Governor.

HCISOBLLANBOHS GLEANINGS. President Hayes left Washington, on the 10th, for Columbus, Ohio, tv here he participated in tho soldiers’ reunion. Seven hundred British immigrants passed through Montreal, the other day, en route to Manitoba. Mr. English, Democratic candidate for Vice President, threatens to sue all papers who- slander him during the canvass. He carefully scans the exchange list of the Indianapolis Sentinel each day for the basis of a libel suit Certain engineers at the capital predict that the Washington monument will never be completed as designed, owing to the insecure character of the foundation.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20,1850.

St. Jnlien and Maud S. for the present rank as King and Queen of the Turf. In a trot against time over the Rochester course, the other day, they fulfilled the expectations an predictions of their admirers. By a remarkable coincidence bothniade a mile in 2:11% —the fastest time, by a second, on record. Burned : A steam mill, a store, and twenty dwellings, -at Sherlock’s mills, N. Y., loss SBO,OOO ; a fur factory at Bushmck, near New York city, loss $70,000; the Otis Company's hosiery factory at Ware, Mass., loss $200,000. Another riot has occurred at Toronto between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Heveral people were injured, hut nobody was killed* A contract has been concluded with a great London syndicate for the completion of the Canada Pacific railroad. •The influx of gold from Europe to this country continues to increase.

THE NEXT HOUSE.

Congressional Repret.enlo.tfpn on the Hasis of flic New Census. [From the Detroit Free Press.] From the reports of the population of a number of the States which have already been made public through the •olumns of the press it is apparent that, unless they are considerably out of the way, the total population of the United States, as shown by the census just taken, will very nearly reach 50,000,000. We givh below the reports from States in which approximate estimates of the population have been made, based upon census returns of a portion or all of their respective counties. The population of Massachusetts, as given below, is taken from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. That of Texas is the mean between conflicting reports. It is not unlikely, however, that the State, wonderful though its growth has been, may not reach the total here assigned it. In the remaining States the population is a close approximation : New York 5,080,000 Louisiana 920,000 Pennsylvania ... 4,200,000 California 803.000 Ohio 3,206,832 Minnesota 780,000 lllinf is 3,125,000 Arkansas 750,000 Missouri 2,300,000 Maine 047,000 Massachusetts.: 1,750,000 Connecticut.... 623,100 Kentucky 1,734,331 Nebraska 452,000 Michigan 1,020,000 New Hampshire. 347,311 Texas. 1,600,000 Vermont 334,455 Virginia 1,000,000 Rhode Island... 270,214 Georgia 1,500,000 Colorado 195,161 North Carolina. 1,385,000 Oregon 175,000 Wisconsin 1,300,000 Delaware 146,620 Alabama 1,150,000 New Jersey 1,100,000 Total 40,170,000 Kansns 1,009,000 The following table contains ail estimate of the population of the States not included in the above list. The populations are based upon the best information attainable at this time, and we believe will be less than the census will show, though there, may be some overestimates : Indiana 2,100,000 Mississippi 8)0,000 lowa 1,600,(XX) West Virginia.... 550,000 Tennessee 1,600,000 Florida 275,000 Maryland 925,(XX) Nevada 11X1,000 South Carolina... 900,000 Total 8,900,000 Below is given tlie population of th several Territories, including the District of Columbia, as closely as they can at present be ascertained : Arizona 25,000 New Mexico 150,000 Daketa 124,000 Utah 144,(XX) District of Colum- Washington 50,0(H) bia 180,000 Wyoming 40,000 Idaho 30,(X)l) Montana . 39,000 Total 782,000 The aggregate population of the States and Territories, as given by tlie above tables, is 49,852,090, against 38,588,371 in 1870, showing a gain in the population of the United States in the ten years of 11,263,719, or nearly 30 per cent. Upon the .basis of the foregoing figures, which are approximately correct, it will be interesting to estimate the apportionment of members of the next House of Representatives. Assuming that there will be no change from the present membership (293), the Representative population is ascertained by deducting from tlie population of tlie States (exclusive, of tlie Territories) the population of Delaware and Nevada States not having a full Representative population. With this deduction made a total is left of 48,823,470, among which 291 Representatives are to be apportioned. This gives a Representative rate of 167,780, audaipon this basis representation in the next House will bo apportioned as follows, an additional member being allotted in eacli case in which a State lias a moiety of the ratio in addition to the full population to entitle it to one or more Representatives. Present Xext House. House. (Jain. Loss, New York 33 30 .... 3 Pennsylvania 27 25 .... 2 Ohio 20 19 .... 1 Illinois 19 19 Missouri 13 14 1 .... Indiana 13 13 .... .... Massachusetts 11 10 .... 1 Kentucky 10 10 .... .... Michigan 9 10 1 .... lowa 9 10 1 .... Tennessee. 10. 10 .... .... Virginia 9 10 1 .... Texas 6 10 4 • .... Georgia 9 9 .... .... North Carolina 8 8 .... .... Wisconsin... 8 8 .... .... Alabama. 8 7 .... 1 New Jersey 7 7 .... .... Kansas 3 6 3 .... Maryland 6 6 .... .... Louisiana 6 6 .... 1 South Carolina 5 5 .... .... California 4 5 1 .... Mississippi 0 5 .... *1 Minnesota 3 5 2 .... Arkansas 4 4 .... .... Maine 5 4 .... 1 Connecticut 4 4 .... West Virginia 3 3 .... .... Nebraska 1 3 2 .... New Hampshire." 3 2 ..... 1 Vermont 3 2 .... 1 Rhode Island 2 2 ... .... Florida 2 2 .... .... Colorado 1 1 .... .... Oregon 1 1 .... .... Delaware 1 1 .... .... Nevada 1 1 .... .... Total 293 296 16 13 In the above it will be seen that the number of members in the next House is placed at 296. This is because the States having a surplus equal to a moiety outnumber those in which the surplus is less than a moiety. The number can be strictly limited to 293 by dropping from each of the three States whose surplus, though equal or greater than a moiety, is the least. We have made no attempt to discriminate thus nicely, for the reason that the population, as given, is not -sufficiently definite in all cases to warrant it. Indeed, the changes made by the official census will somewhat affect the estimate, but not to any material extent.

Paper Rags—Advance in Price.

In the Chicago market the price of common print rags has advanced since Jnly 1, forty cents per 100 pounds. Country-mixed rags arc held firm at $2.65 per 100, being an increase of ouehalf a cent per pound above the price asked thirty days ago. The cause of this upward turn in the rag market is principally attributed to the scarcity of stock, which is the result of a thorough scouring of all sections of the country by rag gatherers since the boom in prices began nearly a year ago. The vather-sudden advance in rags has given a firm tone to the paper market, and manufacturers declare that they cannot make paper at present prices any longer. That there will soon be a general advance in the price of paper is very evident, if the manufacture of it is in any way affected by the prioe of rage.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE RADICAL CONFERENCE.

A Cartons Collection of Patriot* Something'' to Cheer the Hearts of Civil-Service Reformers. [From the New York Sun.] Taken individually and collectively, the patriots who were invited to this city to meet the Credit Mobilier candidate for the Presidency were peculiarly adapted to the man and to the occasion, Ex-Governors, ex-Ssnators, ex-Secreta-ries, ex-Commissioners, ex-Ministers, ex-Generals, ex-Colonels, ex-clerks, and" other extraordinary personrges of the past, together with a few pr< sent dignitaries, made up the motley assemblage at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Landaulet Williams, Secor Robeson, Belknap; Banks, now United States Marshal, and a patriot of many sides’; Bullock, the-notorious ex-Goveraor of Georgia; Conover, ex-carpet-bag Senator ; Warmoth, ex-carpet-bag Governor of Louisi; na; Syplier, ex-carpet-bag Congressman; Orth, the Venezuela jobber ; Storrs, who defended Babcock in the whiskey-ring trial, and now fitly defends Garfield in the paving job ; Filley, ex-Postmaster at St. Louis, whom Scliurz pursued to the bitter end ; Dorsey, ex-carpet-bag Senator; Pinchback, whom the Republican Senate refused to admit* to a seat, afterward voting him $17,000 for more than three years of salary ; Clerical-Erron* Stoughton, and other distinguished personages, were conspicuous in the throng around the Credit Mobilier candidate. John Sherman, with, a specially-de-tailed "force of Collectors and revenue officials as his staff, gave a festive air to the occasion, and tendered the olive branch to James G. Blaine, who was liberal enough to make two speeches, and to tell the audience that a political campaign was a matter of business, and not of sentiment or gush. John Logan appeared in his war-paint, and, with uplifted tomahawk, threatened to annihilate the old secessionists if they insisted on voting for a Union General who had taught them a lesson of duty and submission. Tliurlow Weed made a noble effort to excite enthusiasm by referring to the campaign of 1840. He fought liis old battles over with great bravery, and felt confident of carrying New York if the Republicans could get votes enough. The great feature of the occasion was a hot debate between the Southern patriots, some of whom wanted money and moral support—principally the former —while others declared that any expenditure at the South would be a waste of resources. Conover, Hicks, Pinchback and a noble West Virginian advocated the former policy ; Sypher and Freeman took the latter side. This is the first time in a long experience that Sypher has ever been found against hard or soft money. Perhaps liis antagonism was excited by distrust of the virtuous Republicans who expect to handle the appropriation. The appeals for aid and comfort carried the day, and Mr. Marshall Jewell’s conglomerate convention voted to strengthen the hands of the faithful in the Virginias, North Carolina and Florida. It is gratifying to know that Conover and company have a prospect of getting their expenses to New York repaid, with perhaps a chance for something more for the good of the cause. They will not have another opportunity very soon, and it is not necessary to advise them to draw upon the Treasurer promptly and liberally. Don Cameron sat through all these scenes like a philosophical spectator, and neither opened his mouth nor his pitrse. In fact, lie is said to have clung to the latter with an exceptionallyifirm grip during an outburst of Conover’s eloquence. He had served with him in the Senate and knew his dangerous fascination. Mr. Conkling manifested a most remarkable interest in the candidate and j in the conference, for, although he j lodged in the same hotel with Mr. Gar- i field and near the room where this meeting was held, he took pains not to see the candidate and not to participate in the conference. Blaine and Sherman were both grieved by his absence, while Marshall Jewell, as master of ceremonies, was sincerely distressed at the failure of the New York Senator to make tlie greatest effort of his life. Senator Bruce, who had named his baby after Roscoe Conkling, was also sorrow-strick-en and despondent. Altogether this was one of the most curious collections of politicians on record.

GARFIELD AND THE WHISKY RING,

[From the New York World.] The revelations made and threatened by Gen. John McDonald, of St. Louis, exhibit in the most vivid light the nature of that Government by Bepublican rings to which the country is now urged to submit itself anew. The whisky ring was a creation of the Republican party. Gen. McDonald alleges, and all the probabilities are in favor of the truth of his allegation, that the spoils of the whisky ring were assessed to defray the campaign expenses of the Republican party. He alleges less plausibly that to provide campaign funds was the original motive to the organization of the whisky ring. This is less plausible, because original sin and covetousness are amply sufficient to account for the formation of the whisky ring. It is, however, necessary to suppose a corrupt understanding vith public officers in order to account for its long-continued success and for the immunity which the chief actors in it have enjoyed to this day. A few relatively unimportant persons, like Gen. McDonald, were given up to public opinion for a time as scapegoats to be driven out into the wilderness, or, more literally, to be put in jail. If they had Ven satisfied with their position as scapegoats we should not now be in the way, as we now are in the way, of learning the whole truth about the whisky ring. It will be interesting to see whether the Republican organs will have the impudence to assert that the Republican party, which organized and cherished the whisky ring, also put down the whisky ring and punished some of its members. One man alone in the Republican party. Secretary Bristow, prosecuted the thieves to the best of his ability, and would have prosecuted all of them if he could have had his own way. But simply because he prosecuted these violators of the revenue laws which he was appointed to protect—simply because he showed himself to be a man of honesty and of courage—Secretary Bristow lost all standing m the Republican party. The leaders of that

party assailed him four years ago with even more bitterness and hatred than they have since assailed Mr. Hayes, whose chief offense in their eyes seems to be that he is not a member or supporter of any ring whatever, except the civil service, which will divide the profits of violating the law with the party which connives at its violations of the law. It is already evident that no effective opposition to the Republican rings is to l>e expected from Garfield, and that if he were to be elected his administration would be conducted exclusively in tlie interests of “the old set.” The humiliating pledge which he gave in liis letter of acceptance, that he would not interfere with the control of local patronage by local “ bosses,” ought to have satisfied “ the old set,” as it will satisfy the voters of the country, on that point. Even this humiliating pledge, however, does not seem to have satisfied the old set. Senator Conkling, though he is understood to be in New York, lias thus far taken pains not to be seen or heard of in public in connection with the extemporaneous candidate of the Republican party for the Presidency. Of course, if Senator Conkling should hereafter come out as an advocate of Gen. Garfield’s election, it will be self-evi-dent that he must have demanded of Gen. Garfield and obtained from him some more abject assurance of subserviency to the friends of Grant than even the letter of acceptance furnishes. It is the intention of Gen. McDonald, as expressed in the index of his forthcoming book, to supply, “missing links in tlie chain of evidence of James A. Garfield’s implication with the District of Columbia and the De Golyer bribery. ” One of these links is already supplied by the nature of Gen. Garfield’s present errand in New York, if Gen. McDonald is correct in his declaration that tho whisky frauds began with a desire to raise money for the party. Gen. Garfield has come to New York, hat in hand, to raise money for his own candidacy. Before he gets thfough with his mission he will probably be inclined to bewail the lack of a whisky ring, or some other ring, which would raise money for him without compelling him to such devices, or pledging him to anything, except to tho shutting of his own eyes and of the eyes of his subordinates, if he should ever take Executive office, to the means by which the amount of money, requisite to help him into office had been secured.

THE CHANGED REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.

'fi'lic NcwCliatlcngc 'Jhcj- Have Sow Put Forth. [From the New York Herald (Imlepeuilent).] It is less than two years since Gen. Garfield, on tho floor of Congress, , painted the following patriotic sketch for the conduct of the Presidential campaign of 1880 : ‘ ‘The man who attempts to get up a political excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The man who wants to servo hivcountry must put himself in the line of its leading thought, and that is the restoration of business, trade, commerce, industry, sound p Tit ical economy, hard money, and honest payment of all obligations.” Circumstances unexpected by tho art ist put him into a position two monthago, by liis nomination as a Presidential candidate, to exert as much influence as any other man in the country to realize his own patriotic picture. Is it unfair to judge him out of his own mouth and by his own behavior? What has lie been doing this week? Has he been attempting “to get up a political excitement on the old sectional issues,” or “to put himself in the line of the country’s leading thought ?” Let the proceedings of the Republican conference in this city on Thursday answer. Beyond peradventure the four representative speakers in that conference were Senators Blaine and Logan, Secretary Sherman, and Gen. Harrison. What did they set up in tbyir speeches for the issues in this campaign ? Mr. Blaine said that the issue is whether “ the men who fought the civil war shall surrender to the men who fought against the Union. ” Mr. Logan said that it was whether “ the loyal men of this land, who stood by her constitution and flag when the sword and flame were applied to the temple,” or “the rebel army and the copperheads of the North” shall have the “right to govern this country.” Mr. Sherman said it is whether “the Republican party shall resign to tho solid South, headed by Wade Hampton and the Ku-Klux Klan, and a little segment in the Northern States calling itself the Democratic party.” Gen. Harrison said it is “how we will defend Washington against the enemy that once opposed it in arms. ” If these assertions are not a revival of t > old sectional issues, what are they? i\ot a word was uttered in the conference from first to last concerning the line of the leading thought of the country—concerning business, trade, commerce, industry, sound political economy, hard money, and honest payment of all obligations, with the solitary and melancholy exception that Mr. Sherman announced that the Republican party, has ‘ ‘ accomplished all the results it proposed to accomplish of a financial character,” although hundreds of millions of legal-tender greenbacks are outstanding, and eighty-eight-cent silver dollars are coining monthly by the ton. It was entirely within the power of Gen. Garfield to check this torrent of sectional passion if he had willed so. He sat in an adjoining parlor, and knew what was doing. At any time between noon and 6 o’clock on Thursday, he had only to walk out of one room into another and repeat his own words, which we have quoted at the beginning of this article, to have given an entirely different complexion to this Presidential campaign on the Republican side from that which he has suffered it to assume.' But he willfully withheld from “ serving his country. ” He willfully ratified a partisan policy, which he himself has stigmatized as so unpatriotic that the man who puisnes it deserves to find himself “ without a party and without support. ” He starts back to his Ohio home this morning with the internal consciousness, whatever show of stolidity he may put on, of having been false to his own ideal of patriotism. With his full assent. by the concurrent voices of his party’s leaders, “ thq old sectional issues ” are adopted for the main issues of the Republican canvass, and “the line of the country’s leading thought ” is. subordinated to them. Can the Republican party elect Gen. Garfield President upon issues which he himself, not two years ago, nobly oon-

demned as unpatriotic ? It is* too early to predict. Much will depend on the good sense of the Democratic leaders.

DAVID DAVIS FOR HANCOCK.

Tike Eminent Jurist’s Reasons for Supporting tlie Democratic Nominee. Bloomington, 111., Aug. 4, 1880. My Dy.au Sib : The training and habits of my lifo lead me to prefer civilians to soldiers for the great civil trusts. But, as parties aro organized, voters must choose between the candidates they represent, or stand aloof, indifferent or neutral, which no good citizen ought to do at a Presidential election. I have no hesitation in supporting Gen. Hancock, for the best of all r. asons, to my mind, because his election will put an end to sectional strife and to sectional parties, and will revive a patriotic sentiment all .over the land, which political leaders and factious for sinister ends have sought to prevent. There can be no permanent prosperity without pacification. Great as were the achievements of Gen. Ilaneock in war, his conduct in peace, when in command of Louisiana and Texas in 1567, was still greater, and justly commends him to the confidence of the country. That was a time when passion ruled in the public councils and military power was exerted to silenco civil authority. The temptation was strong to sail with tlie rushing current, for an inflamed partisan opinion was too ready to condone excesses and applaud oppression. Gen. Hancock’s order No. 40, in assuming charge of the Fifth Military District, announced “the right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, tlie liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons and the rights of property must be respected.” These principles are the basis of free government, and the proclamation of them by Gen. Hancock stands out in srtiking contrast with the actions of his superior, who soon after revoKtfttTnid drove him from that command for uttering sentiments worthy of all honor. The soldier, clothed with extraordinary power, voluntarily uncovered before the civil authority, sheathed his sword, testified his fidelity to tho constitution and set an example of obedience to law which will pass into history as his proudest claim to distinction. Tho man who in the midst of tho excitements of that stormy period was cool enough to see his duty clearly, and courageous enough to execute it firmly, may be well trusted in any crisis. His letter to Gen. Sherman, recently brought to light, lifts Gen. Hancock far above the past appreciation of his civil ability. It marks him as one of the wisest of his time, with a statesmans grasp of mind and with the integrity of a patriot whom no sense of expediency could swerve from his honest convictions. Long and unchecked possession of power by anv party leads to extravagance, corruption and loose practices. After twenty years of domination by the Republicans, chronic abuses have become fastened upon the public service like barnacles on the bottom of a stranded ship. There is no hope of reform by leaders who have created a system of maladministration and who are interested in perpetuating its evils. Nothing short of the sternest remedy gives any promise of effective reform, and tlie first step toward it is in a change of rulers. Tlie Government must be got out of the ruts in which it has too long been run. New blood must be in-fused-into the management of public affairs before relief can be expected. Tlie people demand a and, being in earnest, they are likely to be gratified. Very sincerely,'

James E. Harvey, Washington City.

POLITICAL INCONSISTENCY.

“ Look Here, Upon This Piclurc-aiid on Tliis.” [From the New York Herald (Independent).] . There have been two particularlymemorablo conferences at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in recent times. The first was held on the 16th of May, 1876, and its presiding officer was the venerable Theodore D. Woolsey, formerly President of Yale College. It adopted an admirable address, written in great part by Mr. Carl Selnirz, now Secretary of the Interior, from which the following are extracts : * A national election is approaching under circumstances of peculiar significance. Never before in our history has the public mind been so profoundly agitated by apprehension of dangers arising from corrupt tendencies and practices in our political life, and never has there been greater reason for it. We therefore declare, and call upon all good citizens to join us, that at the approaching Presidential election we shall support no Presidential candidate 1. Who in public position ever countenanced corrupt practices; or 2. Who, while possessing public influence and power, has failed to use his opportunities in exposing and correcting abuses coming within the reach of his observat.on, but, for personal reasons or party ends, has permitted them to fester on ; or 3. To whom, however conspicuous his position or •brilliant bis ability, the impulses of tho party manage|khavo shown themselves predominant overxhose of the reformer, for he will be inclined to continue that fundamental abuse, the employment of the Government service as a machinery for personal or party ends ; or, 4. Who, however favorably judged by his nearest friends, is not known to possess those qualities of mind and character which tho stern task of genuine reform requires. In one word, at present, no candidate should be held entitled to tho support of patirotic citizens, of whom the question may finally be asked : Is he really the man to carry through a thoroughgoing reform of the Government? Can he, with certainty, be depended upon to possess the moral courage and sturdy resolution to grapple with the abuses which have acquired the strength of established custom, and to this end firmly to resist the pressure even of his party friends. Whenover there is room for question or doubt as to tho answer, the candidate should be considered unfit for this emergency. Tho man to be intrusted with the Presidency this year must have deserved not only the confidence of honest men, but also the fear and hatred of the thieves. He who manages to conciliate the thieves cannot be our candidate. The second conference to which we refer was held yesterday in the same place. Its presiding officer likewise was a citizen of Connecticut—ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell—and, upon examining the lists of participants on each occasion, we immediately identify our accomplished editorial compatriot, Mr. Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati, as assisting prominently at both. But yesterday’s gathering appears to have been much more miscellaneous than the one in which he was active four year’s ago. Indeed, it must have reminded the Bible readers present —among whom, of course, we reckon Mr. Halstead—of St. Peter’s vision at Joppa, in which a certain vessel was seen descending from heaven, “as it had been a great sheet knit at the four comers and let down to the earth, wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of-the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.” Among others there were Senators Blaine, Cameron, and Logan; ex-Senators Dorsey and Conover, ex-Secretary Robeson, Messrs. Chauncey I. Filley, P. B. S. Pinchback, William E. Chandler, and several more, concerning whom Mr. Halstead must have grown deaf, indeed, since 1876, if he did not hear a heavenly voice like that which said to the apostle, “ Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” While the proceedings were in progress, according to the press reports, Gen. Belknap, formerly Secretary of the War Department, also was one of the gentlemen who were paying visits of congratulation to Gen. Garfield in an adjoining room. How so promiscuous an assembly got along peaceably with one another, and with Mr. Halstead, through the day, would be a wonder, did we not recollect that there were no quarrels among the animals in Noah’s ark. In both instances

a consciousness that they were “all in the same boat,” and that their only chance of getting to land depended upon keeping the peace, perhaps, explains the mystery.

DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.

IVlceling: of the National Executive Committee in New York. The Democratic National Executive Committee met in the city of New York on Tuesday, Aug. 10. The members present were: Chairman, W. H. Barliiim ; G. Horsey, of Maryland; A. W. Sulloway, of New Hampshire ; Edward Wilson, of Maine; B. B. Smalley, of Vermont; W. W. Armstrong, of Ohio ; W. C. Goudy, of Hlinois ; W. Scott, of Pennsylvania ; B. F. Jonas, of Louisiana; W. T. Martin, of Mississippi. The committee was in session four hours, transacting business and hearing reports. The members of the committee from the various States made reports of the campaign. Chairman Bamum gave an account of his observations in his recent trip through Illinois and Ohio. The enthusiasm for Hancock and En glish in Illinois aud Ohio, especially in the latter State, was beyond anything he anticipated. He conld not see how these States could be claimed as strongholds by the Republicans. He did not travel extensively through Indiana, but he met prominent men from all parts of the State and obtained sufficient information to satisfy him that Indiana was Democratic beyond all question. The prospects in the West were sufficiently bright to gratify every Democrat. Mr. Barnum occupied three-quar-ters of an hour in making his report. W. C. Goudy, of Illinois, made a report from that State which not only sustained the statements of Mr. Barnum, but indicated that the result of the election in Illinois might prove a surprise to the Republicans. W. W. Armstrong nißde a statement about the changes going on in Ohio, which justified, in the minds of the committee, the predictions of Senator Pendleton in reference to the result in that State. Mr. Wilson, of Maine, said that there was a very hot contest in that State. Mr, Sulloway reported the canvass in New Hampshii’e as going on well, the Democracy organizing clubs in every district. Gen. Duncan S. Walker, from Washington, reported that the Congressional Committee had advices from forty-three points in Indiana of such a character as to justify them in placing that State in the Democratic column beyond any doubt. They also found that the Democrats in Ohio were working together harmoniously and were exceedingly confident of carrying that State in October. Mr. Armstrong said that there seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm for Garfield, even in the Western Reserve of Ohio. Among the subjects considered was the Republican colonization negroes in Indiana. A letter from Mr. English, the candidate for'Vice President, states that the evidence of negro importations is increasing hourly. The Executive Committee also received many other reports upon that subject, and resolved upon the most active and stringent measures to prevent colonization. Detectives have been employed to watch the leaders in the business, all of whom are well known, and to keep track of the colonists. Arrangements arc also making to arrest any person violating the election laws in that State.

DAVID DAVIS.

THE PARTY OF THE BLOODY SHIRT.

If. must Stand Aside mid Let the Nation Frosjier. [From the Chicago Daily News (Independent Republican).] There has been a decided change in public sentiment regarding the infamous bloody-shirt business during the past few months. The people of the North are beginning to realize that the Republican party organs have made it a point to misrepresent that section of our common country which lies below Mason and Dixon’s line. Nothing could have brought these misrepresentations to light so plainly as the census which is now being taken. Instead of stagnation, ruin and desolation in the South, the census will show that nearly every Southern State has increased wonderfully in population and in wealth during the past decade. It will show that villages have become towns, and towns have become cities ; that manufacturing industries have been developed accordingly, and that the people are prosperous and personally happy. The facts show that there is not a village, town pr city in the South scarcely, unless perhaps it is in the backwiiods of Mississippi, where Northern men are not working hand-in-hand with Southern men in the pursuit of wealth and happiness. Life and prosperity are as well protected in Alabama as they are in Illinois or New Yorlc. The Southern people have gone out of politics and into business. They have very little interest in the Presidential race, beyond that which all American citizens ought to have. If Mr. Garfield is well and good If Gen. Hancock is elected, well and good. Anybody will do, so long as the South is allowed to attend peaceably to its business. The people of the South are spending millions of money annually with the business men of the North. Chicago has an immense Southern tirade . —so has Cincinnati, so has Boston, so has New York. The merchants, manufacturers, bankers and business men generally of the North are more deeply interested in the general prosperity of the country than they are in the success or failure of professional politicians of either party. The people of the North are beginning to see that they have been deceived by the partisan press, and there is a strong feeling in the land that the bloody shirt must be laid aside at once and forever. For the good of the whole country this cannot happen too soon. -If the war settled anything, it was that the Union should- be maintained at all hazards. It wasmot intended to be maintained by one section continually blackguarding, misrepresenting, insulting and goading another section. The party or the bloody shirt must stand aside and let the nation, or whatever it is, prosper and become great.

Christian Statesmen at Chautanqua.

The Young Men’s Christian Association meeting at Chautauqua, yesterday afternoon, was a large one. It is said that fully 10,000 persons were present. The meeting was also one of exceptional interest. The 10,000 spectators were treated to a rare exhibition of Christian statesmanship in the persons of Schuyler Colfax and James A. Oar-

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field, who occupied conspicuous seats on the platform. Schuyler Colfax made a speech. Garfield was not invited to speak. This discrimination was not duo to any difference in the quality of Colfax’s Christian statesmanship and Garfield’s. As the master of ceremonies explained, it was because Garfield is a candidate for a high office, while Colfax is not. In this contrast lies the great interest of the spectacle. Both Colfax and Garfield were bribed with Credit Mohilicr stock. They both received dividends from Oakes Ames. They both swore, in the name of God, that they had held no stock and received no dividends. They were both convicted of perjury as well as of bribery, both denounced ns bribetakers and perjurers by the press of their own party, aud both equally degraded in tho esteem of honest men. But now Colfax is forgotten by the greater part of his fellow-citizens, despised by those who have not forgotten him, and unnoticed except when lie intrudes his presence upon gatherings similar in character to that at Chautauqua. Garfield is the candidate of tho Republican party for President of the UnitedAStnteq. The “Christian statesmanship ” of men like Colfax and Garfield is no blot on Christianity. No one seeks to connect the two things, except the hypocrites themselves, the ninny hammers who are imposed upon by cant, and the malicious enemies of religion. —New York tiun.

INDIANA NEWS.

The South Bend telephone exchange has 117 subscribers at present. Hog cholera is devastating the hogs in the northern part of Hancock county and the southern part of Madison county. Nina, the 4-year-old daughter of M. D. White, was fatally burned at Crawfordsville, while playing with an outdoor lire. A 4-yeak-oli) child of Dr. Clay, residing near Thorntown, Boone county, was killed while playing with loaded cartridges. Mrs. Frances C. Arnold, of New Albany, has been sent to the State Insane Asylum. Religious excitement imbalanced her mind. Mrs. Israel Davis, residing near Scipio, Jennings county, fell •from a chair and sustained injuries that resulted in her death the same night. New money-order postollices established in Indiana: Elwood, Geneva, Knox, Naponee, North Judson, Otterbine, Patoka, Silver Lake, Walton. Policeman Adam Knapp, in a personal encounter with Chris Achilles, at New Albany, struck Achilles a blow on the jaw with his fist, breaking the jawbone. Mrs. Belinda Tulidge, who died in Richmond, a few days ago, was tho daughter of Col. Shombre, a member of the Duke of Wellington’s staff during the Peninsular war. Mr. Michael Adcock, a wealthy farmer of Sullivan county, while digging a well on his farm, was lucky enough to strike a vein of artesian water at the depth of sixteen feet. A fire at Evansville destroyed a portion of Herman’s large furniture factory. The fire originated in the dry-house, where a large quantity of valuable lumber was stored. Loss, $60,000 ; insurance, SIO,OOO. The postoflice at St. Marys, near Terre Haute, burned one night last week. The building was entirely destroyed, with a stock of goods and part of the mail. Loss, about $2,000. It was the work of an incendiary. The oldest resident of Scott county has gone to receive the reward of a wellspent life. Peter Christie, of Vienna township, was probably one among tho oldest, if not the oldest, men in the State. He had lived 105 years, and during most of his life was a hale and hearty man. He leaves a widow aged 86 years. Property was destroyed by fire at Evansville, the other night, to the amount of $12,000. New machinery Avas being placed in the water-works, so that no pressure could be brought to bear upon the flames, and the entire fire department witnessed, instead of rendering aid in checking, the fire. Insurance light. Prof. J. F. McElroy, of the Indiana Institute for tho Blind, has been elected Superintendent of the Michigan Blind Asylum, at Lansing, and will enter upon the duties of the oihee early in September. This makes the second official which Michigan has taken from Indiana, Superintendent Mclntyre, of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, being the first to go. As a train on the Pittsburgh railroad was approaching the Broadway, crossing In Fort Wayne, the other day, three men in a light wagon drawn by a spirited horse attempted to cross the street, but when about half over the track the wagon was struck by tho locomotive aud completely demoralized, and two of the men, Daniel Forth and Thomas A. Hearn j were so severely injured that they will probably not.recover.

Congressional Nominations.

The several State Central Committees furnish the following lists of Congressional candidates nominated in Indiana : Democratic—First, J. J. Kleiner, Vanderburg ; Second, Thomas 11. Gobi), Knox ; Third, S. M. Stockslager, Harrison ; Fourth, William S. Holman, Dearborn; Fifth, C. C. Matson, Putnam ; Seventh, Charles Byfield, Marion ; Eighth, B. W. Hanna, Vigo; Ninth, W. R. Myers, Madison ; Tenth, J. N. Skinner, Porter ; Eleventh, J. R. Slack, Huntingion ; Twelfth, W. d. Colerick, Allen ; Thirteenth, D. B. McDonald, Marshall. Republican—First, William Heilman, Vanderburg; Second, James Braden, Dubois; Third, A. P. Charles, Jackson ; Fourth, J. O. Cravens, Ripley ; Fifth, W. B. F. Treat, Monroe ; Sixth, Thomas M. Browne, Randolph ; Seventh, Stanton J. Peelle, Marion ; Eighth, R. B. F. Pierce, Montgomery; Ninth, Godlove S. Orth, Tippecanoe; Tenth, Mark L. Demotte, Porter ; Eleventh, George W. Steele, Grant; Twelfth, Robert S. Taylor, Allen; Thirteenth, William H. Calkins, Laporte. National—First, Christian Kramer, Spencer; Second, John C. Albert, Change ; Third, Moses Poindexter, Clark ; Fifth, John Clark Ridpatli, Putnam ; Sixth, no nominee ; Seventh, Gilbert, De La Matyr, Marion; Eighth, John AV. Copner, Fountain ; Ninth, W. R. Myers, Madison ; Tenth, John Skinner, Porter ; Eleventh, John Studebaker, Wells; Twelfth, no nominee ; Thirteenth, Dr. Matchett, Marshall.