Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AOBKION NEWS. A review of the conditio* of crops in England shows wheat to lx- below the average, barley alx>ve, oats and Ixians a little al>ove, and peas a little below. The yield of potatoes will be unusually heavy, Mr. Boyd, the Tipperary landlord recently fired upon in bin carriage, Kent a number of employes to the farm from which ho had evicted a widow for non-payment of rent, to gather the crop. Three hundred Land Leaguers drove them off, held the constables at bay, conducted the harvest themselves, and carried away the fruits and vegetables. -The Russian harvest is said to lie the worst since the famine of 1873. India dispatches report some sharp fighting at Ciindahar, in which the Itritisli claim to have worsted the Afghans. Iron-clad lints are to be erected in some distric's of Ireland for the protection of the constabulary. The huts will bo sheathed with boiler iron and pierced with loop-holes through which muskets may tie fired. A disastrous hurricane lately passed over Jamaica, West Indies. Thousands of people are houseless. Crops, fruit trees and farm produce generally have l>ocn destroyed. Colossal trees were uprooted and churches demolished. The barracks in the city wore destroyed. In consequence of the recent floods in West Prussia, Silesia, and Posen, it has become incumbent on tho Prussian Government to undertake measures for the relief of the inhabitants. It is stated definitely that Germany has abandoned the intention|Ti acquire and colonize the Samoan islands. A Berlin telegram says that the European powers have finally determined to make a naval demonstration against Turkey should the Government of that country rofuse to carry out the Berlin decrees. Roumanian politicians ate engaged ill heated disputatious on the alliance question. One faction favors making common cause with Austria and another leans toward Russia. Another party opposes all entangling alliances. According to a recent cable dispatch, should the European powers make a naval demonstration against Turkey, the fleet engaged in it. will consist of three ironclads each, belonging to England, France, Russia and Italy, two Austrian ironclads, and one German ironclad.

DOMESTIO INTELLIGENCE.

Kant. Jacob Zechlor, of Berks county, Pa., built a. lunatic asylum of Ins own twenty-seven years ago, and placed his insane brother in it. The building is eight feet square and has only one window. Ry some means Ihe neighbors discovered I lie use to which the place was put, and have just secured the release of the prisoner. A reconciliation lias taken place between the Sprague and Hoyt families at Cnnonchet, Nnrragansett Pier, and rumor has it that Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, the only member of either family al sent from tho lute reunion, will return to her husband’s roof after the sum-mer-resort season is over. One thousand pounds of powder exploded in Gen. Oliver’s mill at Laurel Run, l’a., during a violent, thunder-storm, destroying a portion of tho establishment, and shaking the earth for miles around. Fortunately nobody was killed. A convention of the deaf mutes of America lias just boen held at Cincinnati. Burned : A hollow-ware foundry, a Hour mill and a cigar manufactory, at Philadelphia, loss $200,000 ; 6.000,000 feet of lumber in the northern part of St. Louis, Mo., loss f 00,000 ; a portion of the Evening Telegraph office at Pittsburgh, Pa., loss $5,000. * The colored editors of the United States mot at Louisville, Ky., Inst week, and formed a Press Association, with ,T. Q. Adams, of the Louisville Bulletin, President, Distressing mortality exists among tho babies of New York city, in consequence of the extremely warm weather. A New York dispatch says that a large number of forged passenger tickets over the railroad liues West, have been put out. St. Julien trotted at Hartford, the other day. against tho time, 2:11%, made by him and Maud S. at Rochester. The da"y and track were fine. Hickok took the middle of the track, and reached the quarter in 32; the half in 1:06; the three-quarter in 1:37%, and passed under the wire in the unprecedented time of 2:11%. There was great excitement when the record was announced. Henry Bienhauer, a German merchant, •f New York, committed suicide by throwing himself under the wheels of a rapid-transit train on the elevated railroad. * Five boys who attended a picnic near Andover, Mass.,, climbed on top of a passenger oil- in a train bound for Lowell for the purpose of securing a free ride. When the train passed under a bridge, near their destination, they were all swept off igjd killed. George Harward, a young lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., was going home, a few mornings ago, when two women who were being followed asked his protection. He escorted them several blocks until the desperadoes came up with him, and, after a brief altercation, stabbed him to the heart.

West. A brace of New Mexican murderers, Charles Williams anil Louis A. Gaines, have been hanged at Silver City, New Mexico. Williams said that his name wrr assumed, but refused to reveal his true one. Both criminals died game. A horrible tragedy has lieen enacted near Madison, Win. Flames were seen to issue at, night from ihe residence of John Winrick, a farmer living on the line of Dane and Columbia counties. The neighbors rushed to the spot, and wen? not a little puzzled to observe that none of tho occupants were around tho burning dwelling. Entering the house, tho reason for this was made clear. Mrs. Winrick’s dead body was found on the floor riddkxl with shots, and her husband’s body was found in the tied bleeding from ghastly wounds about tho throat and head. From all that can ]»o learned about the. affair, it appears that Winrick, in a moment of rage, shot his wife, then set fire to his house that both might lie consumed in the flames, hut, finding the work too slow, he shot himself. The Winrioks lived unhappily. St. Paul has been visited by a destructive fire. The sufferers are P. H. Kelly A Co., wholesale groeors, and Avorill, Russell A Carpenter, wholesale paper dealers, their losses being estimated at $400,000 and $225,000 respectively. Simon Zimmerman, * machinist living on Clyjbonrno avenue, Chicago, killed his wife and then committed suicide. Cause, jealousy The tlireo great Northwestern railways, the Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee ajjd St, Paul, and Chicago, 8t Paul]

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Minneapolis and Omaha, liavc decided to prevent ocean-steamship agents from selling their tickets to and from Chicago and Milwaukee. Hereafter they will manage this part of the business themselves, and will recognize no tickets bought of outsiders. Laborers excavating for a sewer near Wicker Park, in the northwestern part of Chicago, came upon the petrified remains of a mastodon at the depth of eighteen feet. Mr. Asa Dow. one of the most prominent members of the Chicago Board of Trade, and at one time its President-, has failed. His liabilities amount to $102,000, and his assets to about $48,000. Going too much into pork speculation did it. Dispatches to the Chicago Times from various points in the great corn belt show that the crop has lieen seriously damaged by drought, the dry spell lasting in some localities from four to six weeks. The yield per acre will tie much less than an average ; tint, owiug to the increased acreage, it is probable that tho crop, in tho aggregate, will be as large as that of last year. George Haslet and his son met their deaths in a shocking manner at Terre Haute. They were doing some carpenter work upon a stable ; the boy dropped his rule into a new privy vault, thirty feet deep, just beneath them, and descended into it for the purpose of obtaining the rule. When near the bottom he suddenly fell over and expired, hnv ng been overcome by gas. His father saw him fall, and immediately went down to rescue turn, but ho, toy, was overcome, and expired almost instantly. Minnie Binnie, of Dundee, 111., 16 years of age, is under arrest for marrying two men this summer. A daring attempt was made a few nights ago to murder Judge Sherman Page, of Austin, Minn. He was sitting at a table when some person unknown fired a shot-gun at hi An through Ihe window, a portion of the charge striking him in the head.-y AMhoiigh wounded, it ia lielieved that he will recover. Another son of Gen. Grant hasstring a bonanza. Young Jesse's engagement to Lizzie, daughter of W. H. Chapman, a wealthy California landowner, is announced. ‘ ' A storm in Arizona destroyed the military buildings at Fort Mojave, killed three soldiers, and wounded several others. Three railroad men received fatal injuries by being run over bv the cars at Toledo. The steamer Marine City was burned on Lake Huron, near Alcona, Mich., on the afternoon of the ‘2!)th ult. The vessel was ot». the return trip from Mackinaw to Detroit, with a full load of passengers, and when off Sturgeon point tire was discovered in the hold. Tho flames spread with such rapidity that all effort to save the vessel was quickly abandoned, and officers and crew applied themselves to the work of rescuing those on board. Tho tug Vulcan, which was near, and the crew of the lifesaving station rendered prompt assistance in rescuing passengers and crew. Five of the passengers are reported missing, and are probably lost. A dispatch from the West chronicles (he death of Ouray, the famous Uto chief. He died of Bright’s diseaso of tho kidneys, after a long and painful illness. A four weeks’ engagement will be played at McViekcr’s, in Chicago, commencing next week, by Denman Thompson, in his per 7 sonation of Joshua Whitcomb. Mr. Thompson has won a national reputation in the part—the finest piece of character acting now upon the American stage. About the only acquisition of importance in the company since the last apliearance in Chicago has been the engagement of Miss Alice Stewart, a young lady said to possess an unusually good soprano voice. Last year Mr. Thompson played the most successful four weeks’ engagement ever in Chicago, and ho will no doubt duplicate it now.

Booth. Judge H. M. SpofTord, of Louisiana, the contestant for Kellogg’s seat, in the United States Senate, died at Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va., last week. He was 58 years of ago. Tho recent storm 011 the lower Texas and Mexican coast was much more destructive than appeared from ttie lirst accounts. The Mexican city, Matnmoras, looks as if it had been bombarded. Over 300 houses were demolished and the streets are strewn with debris. At Brazos, Toint Isabel and Brownsville the results were equally disastrous. The losses at the vai ions points are estimated: Brownsville, $250,000; Matamoras, $500,000 ; Point Isabel, $200,000 ; Garrison, $50,000. Several Mexicans aro reported to have been drowned. A cerious light occurred at Coffeeville, Miss., between Democrats and Greenbackers, tho following particulars of which are telegraphed from Memphis: Both parties held ratification meetings at Coffeeville. Each raised a pole. The Democrats had a* brass band from Grenada. After the pole-raising they marched through the streets. While passing a corner a difficulty occurred between a negro named Spearman, who was in tire Democratic procession, and R. V. Pearson, the Greenback candidate for Sheriff, which resulted in Pearson shooting Spearqian, killing him instantly. This was the signal for a general melee, and a volley of shots opened upon Pearson, who was shot three times, from the effects of which he died. Two white men, friends of rearson, were wounded. For a time a perfect pandemonium . reigned. Tho, excitement ran so high that the Walthall. Grays, a military company of Grenada, was telegraphed for, but later the order was countermanded. 1 There were two hangings in Tex us on Friday, Aug. 27. The victims were ARtsn Wright, of Dallas, and Lvnchlicld Burks, of Waco. Roland Rucker was to have beffif hanged at Palestine, but when tho executioners called for him they found him dead in his coll. Near Cochran, Ga., four white men broke down the door of a colored man’s cabin and fired a volley into the hut. The occupant seized a gun and, with one well-directed shot, killed two of his assailants iu their tracks. A Coroner’s jury very appropriately rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. The trial of James H. Arnold for tho murder of liis brother-in-law, Hon. Henry Little, has just been concluded at Nicholasville, Ky., and resulted in a verdict of acquittal, on the ground of self-defense. An exciting episode occurred near the close of tho trial. Senator Voorlioes, of Indiana, counsel for the prisoner, had a sharp alternation with State’s Attorney Bronston. The spectators grew excited, and Arnold’s brother attempted to kill the public prosecutor with a revolver. After a scene of wild excitement, the would-be assassin was disarmed, and nobody was hurt.. Subsequently, but on the same day, he was indicted by the Grand Jury, tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year in tlio penitentiary, and to pay a fine of SI,OOO.

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Delaware Democrats have nominated Col. E. L. Martin for Congress. | The Republican State Convention of Iqw» assembled at Des Moines Aug. 25, and nominated the following ticket: State Auditor, W, T, Lucas; Register of the Land Qffice,

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J. K. Powers; Attorney General, Smith ing-" Pherson ; State Treasurer, «E. H. jf Secretary of State, J. A. T. Hull. -,-yuiU The Republicans of Texas hatrrjpffejfld a foil ticket in the field) headed by J, Davis for Governor. The State Republican Convention of Colorado met at Leadvilleon the 26th of August It nominated Gov. Pitkin for re-elect ton ; -for Lieutenant Governor, George W. Robinson; for Secretary of State, Norman 11. Weldnim ; for State Auditor, James A. Davis : for State Treasurer, W. C, Sounders ; for Superintendent of Public lust metionj L. Si Cornell. The Kansas Democrats met in convention at Topeka on the 26th of August and nominated the following State ticket: Governor, G. lto.« ; Lieutenant Governor, Thomas George ; Secretary of State, John M, Griffin ; Auditor, H. J. G. Nenmneber; Treasurer, Theodore Michettbaum ; Attorney General, A. L. Hackford; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss 8:1 rah A. Brown; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, A. R. Wagstaff. A State Convention of the Democrats of New York has been called for Sept. John Kelly is satisfied, and has withdrawn his call for a Tammany'convontion. *

WASHINGTON NOTES.

J. C. Miller, one of tho proprietor** of the Washington Daily CrUiH, while ndfnfitMg tho sash of a third-story window lost his baltHi&iftG’roTT mma MBiiaref to?$? live feet. He was badly injured, and is not exKcctcfttd recover. f if Gen. has issued a genera ; orderTcgamtifilfce'tkaftApC Brig. Gen. MyeE energy :uJj tict, of a uniform aterni*fe««l spfcbirof sinffiltanooUß hieleorooSfirvatinivNf nifofd>w4o the world ties. 1 1 country lias losl ‘ officer, and the Signal Service an able, efficient and zealous •fwMfbraftftn T «*»****».'.•»»ml » iiwKNftpWMMklplW Judge Key retired from Ihe office of Postmaster General Aug. 25, and the Hon. Horace Maynard, late Minister to Turkey, was installed in his place.

MISOELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Thveinuyfece jpt.s <ff tpfeidian the fiscal few tfiTO i ’Bo were* *53tt,408,585j arid on; oil J V tu\j»Mrei-i! jiffiy--161.718v. Tho.deJKik.fß I j National fHlpla.ljt’if, Just ’ how that immigrants arrived ip The United States during the year ending June 30, being 2.500 less tilall (topic in 1873 (he of our greatest inaqjgrntiony .In July, year, Europe addeq 49,922 xo our (xqimHuorti.' Germany taking the lead by a large majority. Brig. Gen. Albert J. Signal Officer of thd United States Army, dud at Buffalo a few days- ago, of Bright’s disease. It was Gen. Myer wlio organized aftd perfected (he signal-service system, add ho was known the world over under (he cognomclQ of “Old Probabilities.’’ A report has reacliejl Galveston, that instead of wjiqipiijg Victoria’s ArißAes, as reported, Col. Grit-radii’s cqmm;ind|\tas delCftt-' ed by the savages.. * s'b'§ SjspWT The Notfonjil Coflve RGntktiyOfl Of the State GrandsOJfewfs ot the Masotifc Orderhas just been held 1 at Detroit. Twenty-ono States were represented. It was resolved to organize I (General Grand Coimedi ; and a constitution was adopted for fitibnnssinrf to the’Rtate Grand Councils. Upon ratification by nine of these bodies, the General Grand Council will bo fully organized. The Grand Chapter Royal .Arch Masons, recently in session in Detroit, elected the following officers : G. G. H. I’., Robert F. Bower, Keokuk, lowa., ; D. G. G. H. P., Selfred 11. Chapman, Boston; G. G. K., Noble D. Lamer, Washington ; G. G. 8., Henry Host wick, Covington, Ky. ; G. G. Treasurer, Reuben C. Lemmon, Toledo, Ohio ; G. G. Secretary, Christopher G. Fox, Buffalo. N. Y\; O. G. C. H., P. F. Pay, Buffalo, N. Y. ; G. P. S., Joseph r. Homer, New Orleans. In the afternoon the Chapter took an excursion (o Lake St. Clair and down the river, and in (ho evening they had a grand banquet, The Knights of Pythias, to*the number of several thousand, from alhpai’Mlf (he eonti-. Kent, assembled in St. Louis last week, and indulged in a grand parade and , bad a good time generally. The Supreme Lodge elected the following officers for (he ensuing brm of tliiee years.: Supreme Chancellor, Judge G. W. y, Maryland; Supremo Vice Chancellor, John P. Lkiton, Pennsylvania; Yjuptejno Prelate, tho Rev. M. Bryce Thompson, of Tennessee ; Supreme Master <>f % c John P. Sfcumpf, of Indiana ; Supremo Keeper of Ihe Reroqia and Seal, Joseph DWMjplB, of Ohio ■ Supreme Master-at-ApdS, Stfiifii, of West Virginia ; G. B: Shaw* bf Guard, John W. Thompson, of the District of c °i"H * | \ 1 g The Influx gi hnmigifmqp con tin ws at an unprecoclented* rate. The statistics for the year, it is lielieved, will show the largest arrivals of on record. - * a» f'tl’ It i« befu'vetl that victoria affirm? murderous jbanf )ot |ljayi| through the failure of the Mexican tioops to dp 'tiicir|iarb £TIJ ; iIOXJ t’VOU. Nearly all American railroads are adding 1 1 ff ir* n!offvY - f)?^??^Fffr , )SSPl ing Locomotive, car, and iran-hridge builders at the East report all tho wory on hand that they cftn.*ttea| to- 4 A Burned : The tol < $40,000; a flouring mill at Mt. Morris, N. Y., 10-is $50,000. Dr. Clijftrlt'H T. Jackson, an eminent Boston scientist and physician, and Paul O. Hebert, ex-Governor of Louisiana, and an exConfederaie General, aro dead.

Praise.

As a general thing we are too chary in praising and encouraging the efforts of the young, too free in ccjtidsiug and depreciating them. Manyavilifcrs powers in various directions are thrust back into inactivity by the cold, unappreciative reception theyanaet witla jClSjtdf-djj ly adopt the s*ntimenttf^odlhlii§eldefs, and soon learn to put the same vhlue on their own powers that others do. The parent, the teacher, and tine employer can easily teach lessdidf of self-deprecia- < tion which may cling through life, ant 1 forever prevent the development of powers that, under more favorable auspices, might have proved n*bless ; ng to the community; or. on sh" other hand, by cheerful encouragement and wholesome commendation, they may nourish many a tiny germ of ability and talent that may one day come to bo a mighty influ-ence—-ft perceptible power in the world.

“A Finn Adherence to Correct, Principles.”

A CASE Of MORAL SUICIDE.

tiarNfM, no a I’iiblic -Mon, < Unworthy of Public < Confidence. Conspicuous Examples of His Mor d Cowardice. . [Prom tho New York World.] Daniel Webster, in one of his speeches at Bostoii, in referring to the tergiversa tions of a certain public officer, said that when a man went back upon his friends it was called ingratitude, or upon hia enemies it was called revenge, but when a man went back on his own principles which he had avowed it ought to be called jnoral suicide. Daniel Webster referred to John Tyler, but he might have used even stronger Language lmd he lived to witness four of. the conspicuous tergiversations .of Gen. Garticld npon decid' d questions of principle. One was iuregard to ‘'reconstruction ono in regard to the disputed election of 1876/ due in regard to freedom of eleetions, and,one in regard to reviving the issues of tine war. On New Year’s day, 1867, ; Gen. .Garfield wrote’to his friend <iwpd*ta*|*«»'» '■ ■iiiii*iftiits*> . I am less satlsiled with tho present aspect of pnbljCjiijfairH thaU 1 luv'e la-eil for a long lime,. itßpesiri' to see prevail meet f>an heretof<>i-4 afid arc U|ira|V'iU '*Mp-iuH*Wiflg <iverborfio.tiw|>op w cfout aniJiMraronsaibß. In re^.runce SWetcrtwiould ailftpt n' * ' Jw<Wßt n Wwllf ; l | ” 3e H- and ibfs quite pofim--91 1 SB Of public Jjle. the utterance of these, brave words, Gen. Garfield was in line with the extremists iriff i'ynf’g tbeTLitrth' with special statutes on reconstruction ; and when the Southern Btates ’lisul adopted the Constitutional amendments lie still kept them, as long as his vote could keep them, from representation. ITe even introduced the bill which was intended to abolish Gen. Hancock’s office as Major General in punishment for that Gener«#f*B pT,!(JflPah«Qforcement of Gen. Garfield’s avowed pi'hioipkwv- w e||AjMiNb 1 - 11, 187(vGen. Garfiled wrote snd*Siiisdales«, the I’l-eriidentv telegraphed me requesting lrte (o go to New Orleaits and remaia.nntil the iPt, is counted, acting as a witness ot the count. I was a good •deal: e*ifmrrnßigid by the retpiesti;; I did not and I might find myielf altdbeifttkl with violent partiAn Republicans who meant could opr. side hi, 1 ight or wrong. ■'/* i's ,? '•

N eVerthdleßSphisCmharrassnKai t yielded, and did Hot SVeU retiil’n when he found llMself among tile Visiting statesmen. Orleatja, or when tic afterwarij t l&mU op the electoral og|ipgio n at Yyiisliiqgton “ associated (■pWPvinlonf. 'p&prtisdu/Repu 1 ili<-a 11 s who meant to cmihfc our sklo in, riglit or tW*4ng.” . jAnrt: oily .tdjweek iaftcr the of fclllg letter to Bpnsdalife he was Writh g from New.Orl'eaus td his friend Hill, of. Boston, in a frame of mind wkM WHter tofs^'amenable Bpeeifie and unuuswerable critiSt ex-Gov. Hendryjkn recently e. in nft speech aj| Garfield Went Ney'’ Oifea.n? to'Aiasist his party In mnkifjg Up ayaKo, and after his return qashifigtqrij of all hts assoeiitert he was the only mati who took his Boat flpon the Electoral Oomnussion. By every sentiment of fair play he Hjiduld have been excluded from the jurybox. By his own sworn statement of what he did in New Orleans Garfield had charge of the returns from West Feliciana parish. In one of the inner rooms of Packard’s Custom House he did hia work, examined the affidavits, and, when they were not sufficiently full, he prepared or had prepared additional interrogatories to bring them within the rules adopted by the Returning Board. The testimony so received by Garfield went back to the Returning Board, and the result was that West Feliciana with its Democratic majority was thrown out. In Washington Gartiold’s vote was that Congress could not go behind tho returns thus made. As agent for his party he helped to make returns by manipulating the evidence ; and, as juryman for the nation, he held such evidence rs conclusive and binding. On April ‘2l, 1880, Gen. Garfield again wrote h*> his friend Hinsdale, and in the course of tho letter said : I am just now in antagonism with my own party in legislation in reference to the election Indeed, of the Bayard bill as to Federal participation! in elections, Gen. Garfield was practically an author, for 110 had entirely favored its principle, its thCOrt tgid its formulas at the time of its introduction, and it was in regard to tlfis measure that he wrote himself down as “ in antagonism to his own party.” , NevertUyless, when the vote came nponilie l>il|his vbte went r.jfbn the roll with liis ! part.y cffllcagues, against #jpedips and declarations. 4 few dhyfe before the meeting of the Cl#:ago| Coiivcntiftn Gqn. Garfield, in tl» course of a speech iivCongrpas, said: The man who attempts to get up a political excitement in this country on the old sectional without a party and f filV'f had lumself become a Uimßlfßite upbhj ft* plaJform which had JK) otlrfcivital idea. m. it;tiiap an attempt L glil**ii/,fJt*e issues ikitinti War, fifteen years after its conclusion.'Gen. Garfield tomwh Tjmtfsrwwtir ecation of liad To all appearances GBllestlyrele|>wcat,eflp|tom his place in iSb eSS his no has .been called for a speech at a serenade or iqion a car platform. The inference from any one of these actions would be and ought to be injurious to Gen. Garfield as a public man. But when these things are considered together no inference can possibly be drawn from them except that Gen. Garfield as a public man is not entitled to public confidence. His is a caseof moral suicide, to repeat Webster’s phrase, and it proceeds from moral cowardice, as all snicMcAi mav be said; to proceed cp whrdiee. 'ffi < u Acft a -partisan - frain the temper of his mind. He is both too scholarly and too Apathetic a man to ‘lose his head in times qf nos. more than ordinary exciteineat. He ist a partisan because he is a moral toward and be cause h.e cannot withstand the pressure of whose knowledge is less| aq d v#i(|ielvills|*ft-4 than «e « (fee of these it is given always Toaee the right and to admire it, too; TofcaffieUie wrong, 4d yt fee wrong pursne. thing that is known of Gen. Garfield’s public career. But his intelligence generally suffices to make him at least “ see tU§ right,” and his weakness always ah

lows him to be, bullied into doing wrong. His political nse to his party has been to furnish plausible reasons for what violent and tiiisorUpuioiis men like Thftddeus Stevens and. Zach Chantllef had forced him into doing. He knew, ns well when he was Trying to remove Hancock as when he wrote to Hinsdale bemoaning the exeesses'of the extreme men in his party, that the policy which Gen. Hancock was pursuing in Louisiana was the only lawful and the only patriotic policy for the commander of a military district to ptlrsue. He knew, fts well when he was cooking affidavits in New Orleans or ruling out the evidence of the cookery before the Electoral Commission, as he did when he was communicating to Hinsdale his fears of the violent partisans who “meant to count our side in, right or wrong,” that Tilden had been elected President. He was simply driven by the violent partisans whom he was too timid to oppose, as he was driven by them into voting against his own proposition on the Deputy Marshals bill, and as he would most asfKredly bo vtiwu i s them if the voters of the country were misguided into electing him to the Presidency. One at least of the charges against his personal integrity owes most of its sting to the same moral weakness. If when Ames told the story of Gen. Garfield’s * connection Avitli Credit Mobilier Gen. Garfield had come out like a man and confessed the truth, lie would have been thought guilty, at most, of an indiscretion. It was his prevarication on the stand and his attempt to induce Ames to assist him in getting it accepted that ruined him before the country. Whenever an emergency has confronted him he has met it in the same shuffling and timid way. After announcing, sorpetimes in the private oftf of Hinsdale and sometimes to the public, what ought to he done, he has fallen into the rear ranks of the men who were advancing to do the precisely opposite thing, and has “followed a multitude to do evil.” What sort of man is this for a position in which courage and aggressive honesty are the first requisites ?

DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.

Fact* and Figures from llte Uccord. [From tlic Detroit Free Press.) Col. Joint Huy, Assistant Secretary of State, in a recent speech at Cleveland, attemp eel, l»y a distort ion of some facts And a suppression of others, to make it Appear that the country had derived no benefit from the control over expenditures which has been exercised by the Democracy during the past four years. The last appropriations made by a Republican Congress were those for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1876. The work of Democrats was first felt during the succeeding fiscal year. To show precisely what the facts arc we present below statements, taken from ofimial pul dications of the Treasury Department, showing the total expenditures—included under the headings of net ordinary, premium and interest on the public debt - —for each of the last four fiscal years for which a Republican Congress made appropriations, and the corresponding expenditures for the four fiscal years which have expired for which appropria - tions have been made by a Democratic Congress : , FOUR BEFUBI.ICAN YF.AII3. 1873 $ 230,315,21.7 1874 302,833,873 1873 271,823,332 1871) 285,101,081 Total $1,132,703,591 Four okMocratio vkaus. 1877.. $ 241,331.171 1878 230,904 320 1879 206,947,833 1880 207,012,957 Total $1,012,889,6 W Net saving in four Democratic years. .$ 119,813,951 But, perhaps, some Republican organ will say that a portion of this reduction is attributable to the decrease in the puldic-debt charge. While it would he a fair response to say that this reduction was effected liuder Democratic Congressional control, would have been impossible without Democratic concurrence and assistance, and that the very fact that it was effected gives the lie to tlic Republican charge that Democratic control of the legislative department is detrimental to the financial interests of the country, wo waive it for the present, for the purpose of presenting Ihc exhibit of the net ordinary expenditures of the Government for the years of Republican and Democratic control, included in the above table : UNDER REPUBLICAN CONTROL, 1873 $ 180,488,63*1 1874 194,118,985 1875 171,529,848 1870 164,857,813 Total $710,995,282 UNDER DEMOCRATIC CONTROL. 1877 $144,209,903 1878 134,403,452 1879 101,619,934 1880 171,885,202 Total $012,178,651 Not Democratic saving $98,810,731 These dire the figures as they appear in the exhibits of Republican officials. Upon their face they appear conclusive. But it should he said, to remove all misapprehension and to disarm all criticism, that the expenditures for 1874, as given in the treasury hooks, are $15,500,000 more thrfn they ready were, that being the sum received from the British Government in payment of the Alabama claims, and which is credited in both the receipts and expenditures of the treasury. It is partly offset in one of the years under Democratic control by the payment of $5,500,000 for the Geneva award, and by several millions of deficiencies contracted before appropriations were made by the Democratic House. Deducting the $15,500,000, and making no offset whatever, the reduction in total expenditures is nearly $104,000,000, and in net ordinary expenditures, so-called, of upward of $83,000,000. And, notwithstanding this large reduction, the Democratic Congress paid nearly $31,000,000 more for pensions to Union soldiers than was paid during the preceding four years of Republican control, as the following statements will show : REPUBLICAN EXPENDITURES FOR PENSIONS. 1873 $ 29,359,420 1874 29,038,414 1875 ~ 29,450,210 1876 28,257,395 Total $110,111,451 DEMOCRATIC EXPENDITURES FOR PENSIONS. 1877.. $ 27,9011,752 1878.. 27,137,019 1879 35 121,482 1880 56,077,174 Total $140,899,427 Excess of Democratic expenditures $ 30,787,970 If a Democratic Congress had made no change in the Pension laws, the expenditures for pensions for the four years in which they had control would have been only $110,000,000, and the net difference, in the net ordinary expenditures in favor of Democratic would be $135,000,000.

It will be seen by the above tables that the net ordinary expenditures for 1880 were in excess of those for 1876—-the last year of Republican control, when the Republicans lxiastfully proclaimed that they llad economized to an extent which Democrats c aid not improve upon. But it will lie noticed that Democrats in 1880 expended $28,000,000 more for pensions than the Republicans did in 1876; and that aside from this there is a difference in favor of the Democrats of $21,000,000. Democratic economy in other quarters made generous treatment? of the soldiers possible. It will also be observed that the total expenditures for 1879 were slightly larger than for 1876. This was occasioned by three items, none of which are chargeable upon the Democratic House. The first was an excess of $5,000,009 in the public-debt chaxge, caused by double interest in the refunding process; the second, $5,500,000 in payment ot the Geneva award; the third a Robesoil deficiency of between $2,000,000 and 000,000 iu the Navy Department. These sums, aggregating $13,000,000, if deducted from the Democratic total would make nearly that difference in Democratic favor in 1879 over 1876, and this, although the Democrats in 1879 authorized an increased expenditure of nearly $7,000,000 for pensions. During the four years of Democratic control, there was an average increase in the population of the country over the preceding four years of about 5,000,000, or fully one-ninth. An. inci< aso in net ordinary expenditures in proportion to population would have brought the total for the four years from 1877 to 1880 inclusive up to $790,000,000, against $710,995,282 for the preceding four years of Republican control. But the Democrats, notwithstanding the large increase iu pension expenditures, kept the total for lour years down to $612,178,551, a reduction of nearly $100,000,000. They did this iu the face- of intense Repul dican hostility, and with the national administration in tlioir hands could make an even better showing. But upon the showing as it is the Democratic party can well afford to claim the confidence of the peeple.

A SCRAP OF HISTORY.

How Gen. Garfielil, in ISBS, • Sought 10 “Improve tlie Army” by I*cmoving Gen. Hancock. [Washington Letter.] It lias been announced with a flourish that the Republican Congressional Committee are issuing the speeches of Gen. Garfield as campaign documents.. He risks nothing in saying, though, that one of his speeches that would be as greedily devoured by the public as anything he ever said, and which is peculiarly pertinent just now, was overlooked by the committee in preparing their oracular list, and, had*not Senator Wallace come upon it to-day, it is hardly likely that the omission of the Republicans would have been corrected. As it is, the Democratic Congressional Committee will apply themselves industriously to its circulation. The famous order No. 40 was issued by Gen. Hancock Nov. 29, 1867. Early in the ensuing session of Congress—Jan. 13, 1868—Mr. Garfield, according to the Congressional Globe, page 489, asked unanimous consent in tho House to introduce for immediate consideration and action a bill “To reduce and improve the military establishment by discharging one Major General.” The bill provided that the army should be reduced by the discharge from military service of the Major General who was tho last commissioned in that grade before January, 1868, the bill to take effect from its passage, so that there should remain but four Major Generals in the army. As soon as the bill had been read, Mr. Garfield expressed the wish that it might be acted upon the next morning. Objection being made, Mr. Garfield then said that he should bring it up the first thing on the following Mjonday. The bill was aimed directly at Gen. Hancock, who had been commissioned Major General July 26, 1866, and was the last commissioned in that grade before January, 1868. Thus it is seen that within six weeks after Hancock had sued order No. 40, Garfield, Chairmaije' of the Military Committee, moved a bite* to punish him-for issuing it—hot by re *- e tirement or pension, but by removal The Garfield bill was not heard of for. the reason that on the same day, Jan. 13, Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported a hill that answered nearly the purpose sought by Garfield. It was in three wordy sections, but its purport was to compel Hancock to obey Grant, the General, rather than Johnson, the President, and investing in Grant the power to remove Hancock if he obeyed Johnson. It also gave Grant the power to do* anything he might see fit in each of the military departments, regardless of the President. In broader terms, it meant that the powers granted the President by the constitution should be overthrown by statute. The bill was put upon its pns sage Jan. 17, and on that day Garfield made a speech from an alleged constitutional standpoint. After he had disposed of what he called its constitutionality, he let the light, in on his real purposes by arraigning Hancock for issuing order No. 40. Mr. Bingham’s bill passed the House, after Mr. Garfield's speech, by a strict party vote of 124 Republicans to 45 Democrats—Garfield of course voting yea. It was not heard of again in Congress, for tho reason given by Garfield to Hinsdale that Hancock afterward “kept his place.” The speech, however, places Garfield in square antagonism, not only to Gen. Hancock’s doctrines, but also to those which he has permitted his party associates of late to attribute to himself, at least so far as it embodies what he was pleased to consider his opinions of the relations of the civil and military powers as warranted by the constitution.

Undisputed Facts.

When about to distribute Credit Mobilier shares where they would “produce most good” to the men who dreaded the action of Congress, Oakes Ames, who knew his colleagues well, selected Garfield, of Ohio, as one who could probably be bribed. The letter addressed to the American people by the sons of Oakes Ames naturally denies the intent to bribe. But Oakes Ames himself, on Washington’s birthday, 1868, wrote to Col. McCorub, in regard to the shares distributed to Garfield and others : “We want more friends in this Congress, and if a man’will look into the law (and it is difficult to gef fLem to do it unless they

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have an interest to do so) he cannot help being convinced that we should not be interfered with.” The Messrs. Ames offer, as a leading argument to show’ tlyvt there was nothing wrong in the transaction, the fact that no legislation was wanted of Congress at that time. Precisely so. As Oakes Ames’ letter to McComb shows beyond the possibility of doubt, it was to prevent legislation that the shares were put where they would “produce the most good.” On Ames’ ow’U construction of the matter, the Congressmen were to be hired to adopt his view of the meaning of the law by making their interests identical with the interests of the company. That is what was done ; and that is what constitutes bribery. Garfield’s share in Credit Mobilier was not an investment m a promising stock recommended by a friend. Gar field was to pay nothing. He was assured that the stock offered to him for nothing would realize $2,400. He admits this, for in his defense, published not until after the death of Oakes Ames, he attempts to explain the memorandum of $2,400 in his own handwriting in this way: Before I left his room [the interview after (lie investigation had begiinl ho Raid lie had some memoranda which seemed to indicate that the money I had of him was an account of stock, and asked me if he did not, some time in 1808, deliver to me a statement to that effect., I told him if ho had any account of that sort I was neither aware of it, 'nor responsible for it, and lli< reuiKui 1 made sr.’eslaiui.illy tlio following statement: “Mr- Ames, the only memorandum you ever showed mo was in 1807 'OB, when, speaking to me of this proposed sale of stock, you figured out on a little piece of paper what you supposed would be realized from an investment of ()1,000, and, as 1 remember, you wrote down these figures : 1,000 1,000 400 2,400 as the amount you expected to realize ” While saying this to Mr. Ames I wrote the figures as above, on a piece of paper lying on Ins table, to show him what the only statement was ho had made to me. But, in the face of, this declaration that he knew in 1868 of the enormous profits to bo made out of Credit Mobilier stock, Mr. Garfield' elsewhere claims that he did not know anything of the character of the stock or the nature of the profits to be forthcoming until warned by Judge Black, a year or two later, that the transaction was suspicious ! Leave entirely out of sight Oakes Ames’ sworn testimony, which the Poland Committee believed and the country believed, that. Mr. Garfield received a dividend of $329 on Credit Mobilier stock, understanding it to be such a dividend, and there is still evidence enough, in Garfield's own statements, to convict him of the bribe-taking and the jierjury. —New York San.

Why Col. Forney Is for-Hancock. Having decided to support Hancock for President of the United States, however, I find that there is another audience not quite as anxious to hear what I have to say ; that • one decides against me in advance. The parties to this proceeding are gentlemen who think that it is an offense for an independent Republican to have any voice in public affairs that is not set to the chorus of the Republican ring. As long as you sing in their choir, and echo their sentiments, and obey their covenants, you are a saint; but if you utter a discordant note you are a traitor. I am a traitor now because 1 do not swing the censer to Gen. Garfield. I am inconsistent because I spoke well of Gen. Garfield after his nomination for President. I am glad I did. His nomination was a relief from the men who assassinated Grant at Chicago. Gartieid was better than the office-holding nml office-hunt-ing politicians, who, after hunting down the lion, expected to drink his blood, to feed upon his fame and to rally the party he had saved twice from ruin to thensupport. Garfield was better than the hypocrites who, howling civil service and holding up a third term, as they said, sought the Presicleucy only for themselves, after having been longer in office than four times the length of one term. But I did not know Gen. Garfield’s record ; I had never examined it. was not my business to keep a list of jobs. I have not been five times in Washington in ten years, and I do not s'ftow what the new loaders of the Republican party have done—certainly not their secret work to help themselves. Till his nomination for President the country was almost as ignorant as myself. What it is all men know now; and, if I revolted from it, it was because I found it different from what I honestly believed it to be. Gen. Garfield’s accusers were not Democrats. He was brought to the bar by his own party, by the Republican press and the Republicans of his own county ; by the Republican committees of his own Congressional district, by the Republican Congress of which he was a member, and by a Republican court of justice. Had this record been known at Chicago, Gen. Garfield could not have been nominated. Full information enables me to speak by the book when I assert that there was net a Republican leader of any note, equally those on the ground to stay and those who came to save Grant, that did not admit, on reflection, that Garfield’s selection was a blunder, and that that blunder was worse than a crime.

Mr. English’s Mortgages.

[From the New York Nation, Republican.} Mr. English seems, like many other men, to be in the habit of investing considerable sums on mortgage, which is usually considered a business transaction, the object of the mortgage l>eing to enable the creditor to get his money back in case the interest is not paid. But the esteemed Republican contemporaries seem to think that the mortgage is something which is drawn up cither for fun or to save the debtor’s dignity, and which no creditor fit to be Vice President would think of taking seriously. So when Mr. English treats his as real security, and enforces it, they denounce him as a humbug and hypocrite, and as “no poor man’s friend.” This is a sorry business for a paper like the Cincinnati Commercial to take up, and would be much better suited to Denis Kearney’s organ. When the editor takes a mortgage we wonder what he docs with it. [From the Rochester Union, Democratic.] Some of the Republican newspapers are making the charge against Mr. English, Democratic candidate for Vice President, who has for many years been a large banker and extensive business man of Indianapolis, that he has been compelled by foreclosure of mortgage

(P? ffletiwcmiif §jmfinei JOB PRINTING OFFICE Km bettor fecilitiM than Any office hi Northweetor* Indiana for the execution of all branchee of JOB PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from • r*mi>blet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or f aucy. oATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

overdue to collect money owed ldm by persons to whom uo had loaned it. All individuals, firms, banking associations, savings banks, insurance companies, etc., that loan money on bond and mortgage and are obliged to go to the trouble and expense of collecting it when due and payment is refused by the debtor, will understand that in Republican newspaper estimation they are extortioners and robbers who deserve public execration, and that the Republican newspapers do not desire their presence in the R qmblicau party. This is what, the Republican newspapers mean if they mean anything by. this charge against Mr. En gljsh.

INDIANA NEWS.

Sullivan has overwhelmingly rejected the proposition to organize a city government. In the past, eighteen mouths three grown daughters of Collin McKinney, of Salem, have died of consumption. It is calculated that the dome of the Indiana State House will contain 327,667 cubic feet of stone, weighing 25,3891 tons. Sua hliot fever is raging fiercely among tlic childreu of Hancock county. Six well-developed cases are reported iu Greenfield. The city of South Bend offers for sale, at not less than par value, $25,090 addi-. tional water-works bonds, bearing 5 per cent, interest. Joseph M. Goble, of Rushville, has brought suit for malpractice against two doctors, alleging that they were negligent. and not. competent to set a broken leg of his last January. A oow belonging t<> Bennett Baum or, a farmer who lives near Richmond, gave birth a day or two ago to a calf that has no eyes, and no place for them, and there is no sign of a tail. Mas. Adam Porter, who died at Camden, Carroll county, a few Jays since, was-a sister of the late Joseph Holman, of Centerville, the last surviving member of the ludiana Constitutional Convention of 1816. Labor quantities of fine walnut lumber, and (iuiber, a good deal of it cut into shape for shipment to Europe, arc being received in New Albany, where the business lias grown into great importance. The Jeffersonville Plate Glass Company has made a plate of glass for the Louisville Exposition, measuring lit) inches and 230 inches wide. It is the largest plate of glass ever east in this part of the country. The breech-loading Hint-lock gun, which was recently found in the ground, several feet below the level of the bed of Graham crook, Jennings county, is supposed to have been lost on the old Indian trail by soldiers or trappers as early as 1812. David Shell, a wealthy farmer living three ■ miles, northwest of Hagerstown, has been beaten out of $2,500 by con lidence men, who offered him a bonus of SSOO for the use of that, sum for ten days, to complete the purchase (as they said) of an adjoining property. County Auditors of ludiana do not seem to have as much interest iu the corner-stone of the Capitol as the State. House Commissioners would like for them to have. So lar but four counties have responded to the circular of the Commissioners asking for memorials. While Mrs. Conner, of Vincennes, was eating supper with an infant daughter in her arms, she attempted to pour out a enp of tea from the urn, when t he. handle broke and the boiling tea poured over both. The child died next morning, and the mother is severely scalded. The Chicago and Bedford Stone Company, at the railroad junction in Bedford, have begun the erection of an immense establishment for sawing, cutting and planing stone. The power will be furnished by a 100-horse-power engine, and the entire cost of the enterprise will be $20,000. Dons raided the flock ol' fine slieep owned by Mr. Martin McCulloch on his farm near Now Albany, killing thirteen and mangling several more so they had to be killed. The. loss is S6O. In the last twelve months over 200 head of sheep have been killed by dogs within a radius of two miles of the city. Near Shidler’s Station, on the Ft. W., M. & C. R. 11., not long since, Alexander Snyder, who was engaged to marry Miss Sarah Freeman, asked her to marry him at once, but she refused, and persisted in keeping company with another person, when Snyder told her she would never again see him alive, went into the field near the house, tied one end of a handkerchief about his neck and the other to the limb of a small tree, and when found soon afterward was dead. A few’ days later Miss Freeman, after having a few words with Snyder’s mother, committed suicide by hanging her-* self to an apple tree with her apron. The young man was 20 years old the girl 19, and both were respected in the county where they lived. Miss Freeman was in the employ of Snyder’s stepfather. John B. Coyner, a farmer, residing near Palestine, Hancock county, relates a singular incident which happened at his farm a few days since. His hired man was in the act of watering the cows, nine in number. They were standing around the pump-trough, awaiting his • action, when all at once, with tails erect, they made a stampede down the lane as fast as their legs would carry them. The cause of this sudden freak was a mystery to the hired man, but it was not. long before he was let into what appears to have been the secret of the stampede. Suddenly, although the sky was clear and the atmosphere still, a young cyclone, not over twenty feet in breadth, darted down from the sky, and, striking the earth near the pump, twisted off five large beech shade trees, stauding near by, as though they had been mere weeds. When the cows made tlie stampede there was no indication of its apprdach, and by what mysterious rule of foresight the cattle “smelt trouble in the air ” is one of the things which “ no feller can find out.”

A Gigantic Rock Story.

A gigantic rock fell into the.narrow canon between ltock Creek and Chamberlain Flats, Klickitat County, W. T., recently, from a ledge one thousand seven hundred feet high. It struck a band of seventy-five sheep, killing nearly all of them; then bounded and struck the mountain on the opposite side, breaking in twain, one part flying into the swamp and imbedding itself out of sight, while the other ground Itself in pieces against a ledge of rock, making an unbearable sulphurous smell and great heat;— ldaho Statesman,