Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

»OBEIGN NEWS. During the recent visit of the Czar to Livadia the track wan guarded night and day by about 50,000 troops. Greece has called all adult male citizens under 30 to her army, Several lives were lost at Serinagur, India, by a conflagration which destroyed 150 houses. The steamer San Salvador, in the Houth American cattle trade, was lost in the late hurricane off Florida. lit r crew, with the exception of'the Captain and first mate, was colored. It is reported in London that the agreement between Prince Bismarck and Baron von Haymerle is intended to lead to an alliance between Germany, Austria and Roiunauia, the Hatter to be raised to the rank of a kingdom, and ifii integrity and independence guaranteed by Germany and Austria, thus blocking Russis'n land route to the Balkan peninsula. A Constantinople dispatch says the •murderers of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, have arrived there and w.ll be triod speedily. The Bultan lias promised Mr, Heap, United States Consul General, every satisfaction. . Dispatches from London of the 10tli place the loss of life by the Beaham colliery explosion in Durham at between 130 and 140. Very few bodies liad boon recovered up to that •date. It is thought the explosion originated in t lio lower seam, and that gas was driven over the furnace. The explorers for a time had to suspend the work of bringing up the survivors in consequence of the stables being on fire. A woman dropped dead on hearing of the death of her brother iu the pit. It is announced that Bulgaria will in Oelobor declare her indopondenco. Disturbances throughout Armenia are threatening to assume the proportions of an insurrection. The Prince of Wales has abandoned liiH contemplated trip to Australia. The reason assigned is that ho does not want to go so far from his royal ma. Turkey lias at last taken action looking to the transfer of Dulcigno to Montenegro. News lias been received from the French expedition which startod up the Niger in Africa, in April last, under Capt. Gallieni. <)<i the 11 tli of May, iu the Barbary country, the expedition was attacked by 3,000 natives. After several hours’ fighting, Capt. Gallieni retired with a loss of fourteen killed and eleven wounded. All their baggage was lost. The expedition has refitted and started again by another route. News comes, from Afghanistan that a serious insurrection has broken out in Herat., and the Governor of the city been murdered. A daughter lias been horn to the King and Queen of Spain. Gen. Count von dor Goltz, of the German army, and one of the Emperor’s aids-de-cttinp,| lias been killed in a duel with a brother oltlcer.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Hast. The rivalrieH and bickerings between the two Exposition or World’s Fair Committees of New York have been settlod at last, and tliero is now a good prospect that tho fair will be held in 1883. Tlio obelisk has been successfully drawn out of the hold of tho steamer Dossoug, at New York, and will soon be placed in position in Central Park. A man named Knapp, from Utica, N. Y., stood on tho banks of the river, at Niagara falls, shot himself through the head and then leaped in tho water and was swept over tho falls. An entire block of buildings in New York, known as the Manhattan building, has been burned. Loss estimated at $1,509,000. ’ l)r. Tanner’s first lecture was delivered in Booth’s Theater, New York to about 100 people. The New Jersey coast has been visited by a severe gale. The damage is very great. Marslia ft O. Roberts, the well-known New York merchant, capitalist and steamship owner, is dead.' Isidore Rosenthal, dealer in Avoolens, lias failed, in New York city, to the amount of $200,000 ; assets. $95,000. West. Gen. Grant visited the Wisconsin State Fair at Madison, as tho special guest of ho managers. E. B. Hall, late Treasurer of Lucas county, Ohio, is a defaulter to the amount of about $50,000, and has skipped to Canada. A fire in St. Louis destroyed half a dozen ice-houses and a portion of tho Excelsior manufacturing works. . When the roof of the

latter establishment fell in, seven firemen were carried down, two. receiving injuries which caused death in a few hours, and the others being painfully hurt. Indians recently attacked and captured a stage sixteen miles from Fort Cummings, in New Mexico. The drivor and passengers, two in killed. One of them was Ewing 8. Madden, son of Capt. D. Madden, of the Sixth cavalry. Mr 3. Sarah Doolittle, mother of exSenator James B. Doolittle, has just died at Bacine, Wis., in tho 88th year of her age. A financial statement by the Triennial Committee of Knights Templar shows that the expenses of tho late conclave in Chicago were $98,000, and that the receipts from all sources were $87,000. Tho shortage will be made good by the three local commanderies. Troops from Fort Cummings overtook the savages who recently captured a mail-coach in New Moxico and killed the passengers, and had a short fight with them. Three of the soldiers Wore killed, and several wounded. The savages then fled in the direction of Mexico. An express train on the' Indianapolis and St. Louis railway was thrown from the track on a bridge thirty feet high, at St. Mary’s Station, Ind., a few nights ago. The conductor was killed and soveral passengers were injured. It is thought the disaster was caused by trainwreckers bent on robbery, President Hayes and party arrived in Kan Franflsco Sept. 9, and received a very cordial welcome. The city was handsomely decorated in their honor. A Creek Indian was executed for murder on the 9th inst., at Muscogee, Indian Territory. Dan Camory and Sam Shields descended into a silver mine, near Hannibal, Mo., too soon after a blast, and while a vacuum still existed. They were dead when taken out. A company has been formed at Topeka, Kan., for invading the Indian Territory. The Chicago Inter Ocean prints returns of the spring-wheat crop in 210 counties of Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Dakota. From

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these returns it is computed that the crop for the year is about 21,000,000 busheles greater than in 1879 in the States and Territories named. The wheat crop of Illinois this year is the larg*est ever raised in the State. The total yield is 56,508.309 bushels, of which 53,865,505 are winter wheat and 2,642,808 spring wheat. The Chicago Times states that several enormous cracks have appeared in tlic walls of the new City Hall, now in process, of construction, indicating that it is settling very unevenly. Fart of the structure is believed to be in a dangerous condition. A 156-hour race between men and horses was brought to a conclusion at Chicago last week. The first prize was taken by a young man named Byrnes, the score at the finish standing as follows : Men—Byrnes, 578 miles ; Krohne, 535 ; Colston, 529 ; Schoch, 429; Jackson, 203. Horses—Betsy Baker, 568 miles; Bose of Texas, 545; Bathman’s entry, 527 ; Crockett, 525. Thomas Connell and William Doyle, of Chicago, assaulted each other with lighted kerosene lamps. The lamps broke and deluged them with burning oil. Both were honibly burned, and one of them, Doyle, has since died. Two old people named Purdy were burned to death in their house at Austin, Minn. Boutn. The Hon. Gustavus Henry, well known over tile Union as the “eagle orator of Tennessee,” died lately at his home in Clarksville, Tcnu., after a lingering illness, aged 76 years. Active preparations are making at Baltimore for a grand celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the city. The festival will commenco Oct. 11, and continue fiva days.

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Greenbackers of Nebraska have placed the following State ticket in the field : For Governor, O. T. B. Williams ; Lieutenant Governor, B. Lansing; Secretary of State, B. F. Allen ; Treasurer, A. V. Herman; Attorney General, Noah A. Bheckler; Land Commissioner, David Neal; Superintendent of Education, Dr. Mansfield. After a stormy session the Georgia Republican Convention passed a resolution declaring it inexpedient to nominate candidates for Governor and other State officers. The New Hampshire Republicans have placed in nomination the following candidates : Governor, Charles 0. Bell; Railroad Commissioners, James E. French, Charles A. Smith and E. J. Tenny ; Presidential Electors, Nathaniel White and E. H. Winchester. Arkansas and Vermont held State elections, the former on the 6th and the latter on the 7th of September. The Democrats carried Arkansas by a majority estimated at this writing at from 40,000 to 50,000, while tho Republicans swept Vermont by about 25,000 majority. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists’ Convention at Worcester indorsed the nominations of Neal Dow for President and the Rev. 11. A. Thompson for Vice President, adopted a resolution declaring in favor of female suffrage, and nominated the following condidatcs for State officers : For Governor, Charles Olnoy, of Now Bedford ; Lieutenant Governor, Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester ; Sooretary of State, Sol. T. Root, of Dalton ; Treasurer, Thomas J. Luthrop, of Taunton ; Auditor, Jonathan Buck, of Harvvick ; Attorney General, Samuel M. Fairfield, of Malden.

WASHINGTON NOIES.

The internal revenue ollico has completed its analysis of the internal revenue for the last fiscal year, showing the sources whence it came. Illinois heads the list of States in respect of tho amount of revenue paid to the Government, her total being in round numbers $23,000,000, $19,500,000 of which was from spirits. Ohio comes next with a total of $18,000,000, of which $13,000,000 was from spirits a d $3,000,000 for tobacco products. New York paid *10,000,000, of which $3,000,000 was for spirits, $7,700,000 for tobacco, and $4,300,000 for fermented liquors. The latter amount is four times greater than that reported from any other State on the samo article. Virginia paid $5,700,000, all but $400,000 being for tobacco. Kentucky paid $8,800,000, all but $2,000,000 being upon spirits. Indiana paid $0,000,000, $5,500,000 being for spirits. One hundred and seventy-five men are now at work on the Washington Monument. Two or three agents of the Census Bureau have gone to South Carolina to investigate the alleged census frauds in that State. An heir of the Count Pulaski bus made her appearance in the person of aFrancoAmerican girl, who claims to be his grandniece. She wants the Government to pay her the $7,000, with interest accrued during about 100 years, for salary of the Count as an officer in the Bevolutionary army. In the mean time, she wants a treasury clerkship until such time as her claim shall be paid.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Hanlon, the Canadian champion with (he oars, has sailed for England to row Trick(tt, the Australian oarsman. W. H. Greenwood, a celebrated Amercan railroad engineer, has been murdered by unknown persons, pear the City of Mexico. A forest fire near Upton, Canada, has caused a terrible catastrophe. A fertirt and attractive region, soveral miles in extent has been converted into a desolate waste, tour or five persons burned to death, ard over fifteen bundled people rendered homeless. The flames spread with such rapidity that the fanners and then- families escaped with nothing but the clothes they wore. More than 120 farms were swept over. The victims are represented as in a pitiable condition, and will be dependent largely upon charity during tho coming winter. Joe Emmet, the well-known character actor, has become a hopeless drunkard. The British steamer Anglia, when four days out from Boston, came in collision with the bark Iron Gate and went to the bottom. Fortunately no lives were lost. The vessel and cargo were valued at $1,000,000. “Dr.” Bubhanan, the notorious peddler of sham medical diplomas, has been arrested and taken back to Philadelphia. It appears he found life in Canada so insufferably dull that he ventured to cross to the American side in a skiff, when he -was promptly nabbed. It is said that nothing so dangerous and difficult of detection as the current SIOO counterfeit note has ever been known in America. The plate is so arranged that it can be adjusted to suit tho issue of almost any nation, al bank. This makes discovery of the fraud almost impossible, except at the treasury, and there, strange to say, the cheat can only be pi oven by the superiority o e the workmanship expended upon it.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 18S0.

A TILLING SPEECH.

Delivered by the Hon. C. S. May, of iTtlcfiJg-nn, at Hicbig’an City, Ind.*--The Issues of the Campaign Bis* cussed in a Easterly Manner. Mr. May first spoke of the great importance of the impending campaign, and then passed to a brief consideration of the claims on the country put forth by the Republican party. The day had passed, he thought, when the record of the Republican party during the war could be urged as the only necessary support of these claims. The party had changed. It was no longer tho party of Lincoln, Chase and Seward, and tho issues on which tt had successfully fought had diod with those leaders. The only real issue between the parties, he continued, is ono of administration, as to which one will best administer the Government; and the groat question is, what now is best?—not what was best fifteen or twenty years ago. It is high time that this most pernicious and absurd idea, that parties can escape the consequences of present iniquity by past good conduct, or forfeit, when right to-day, the public confidence for the wrong their predecessors did in another generation, should be scouted and banished from our politics. This voting parties up or down on their “records” is a vast piece of public nonsense. The questions of statesmanship, of government, are intensly practical tilings, ana not matters of mere sentiment. I am not here to defend tho Democratic party in the days of Jackson or Buchanan, nor to assail the Republican party in the days of Lincoln and Sumner. But I am here to show that the hero of Gettysburg is a good and safo man to be elected this year to the Presidency, and that the Republican party and their nominee, in this year of grace, are unworthy of the confidence of the American poople. They are to-day on trial for high crimes and misdemeanors, and I do not propose to allow them to escape conviction on a plea of previous good character. Good character is only allowed to be shown in the courts in doubtful cases. It goes for nothing where the facts rro clear. The facts are clear in this case —they are notoriously clear. It is not a case of circumstantial evidence at all. The Republican party of to-day is guilty, thrice guilty, of great and manifold public corruptions—corruptions proved, corruptions confessed, and it must not be attempted to sneak out of court by showing what it ci liu the war. It is what it has done since the war that now concerns the American people. What now is best ? Let me answer that question by saying that the great and pressing political need of this country to-day is a complete and radical change of administration—a change which shall clear out every department of this Government, from high to low, and give us a great national purification. The real mission of the Republican party was accomplished ten years ago, and since that tinio it has simply been holding on to the offices by good luck and successful fraud. I ask is it not best that there should be mother change, that incompetent and di. honest officials should be got rid of, that the ! oi k i should be examined, and the comi, 1 rings broken up? The corruptions of the Republican party in these recent years are not a matter of deduction or inference, but of appalling fact and world-wide notoriety. They have been proved over and over again before Congressional investigating committees ; they have been confessed by some of tho chiefest perpetrators and culprits; they have been acknowledged by all candid and fairminded men- in tho organization. And these frauds and corruptions have not been small and petty ones, mere pecadilloes of some obscure official here and there, but startling and gigantic ones, and in the highest places—perjurers and bribe-takers in Congress, thieves and robbers in the Cabinet. Our country has been scandalized and disgraced by some of these corruptions in the eyes of the whole civilised world, and republican institutions themselves made the jeer and scoff of mocking aristocrats and disbelievers in our form of Government across the water. Now, fellow-citizens, why should we not have a change of administration ? It is a time of peace; there are no great material interests to suffer ; the Democratic party have a confessedly good candidate—why is this not a good time to change ? /

Masses of fair-minded men in the Republican party, who recognize the force of all this, who realize that their party has. grown corrupt and dishonest, would be inclined to agree that the time has come to make a change, if they were not deceived and deluded by the idea that this cannot safely be done on account of past transactions and party .“records” —an idea vigorously propagated and wholly relied upon by the lenders and organs in this canvass, because they well know that if the issue is made to turn upon the vital questions of to-day, their party, burdened down to the water’s edge with its frauds and corruptions, must go under. So they raise the “record” cry, and the war-cry again, and talk long and loud about what happened fifteen or twenty years ago. Fellow-citizens, I want this Republican party to come out into the open field of to-day and fight the battle, like men of sense and courage, on their own merits, if they have any, and not on the virtues of their fathers and grandfathers —virtues which they have strangely, if not impiously, neglected to imitate. Como out and show, if you can, that your party .is clean and pure ; that Garfield is a better man than Ilancoek, and that we do net need any change. No, fellow-citizens, they do not propose to fight the battle in this way, but instead they begin just twenty years back, and say that the Democratic party is responsible for the rebellion, and that they put the rebellion down. This assertion is tlio very beginning of their argument this year, tho broad proposition upon which their argument rests. When we ask for a change in the Government we are met on the threshold by this assertion, which is everywhere thrust in our faces as a reason why wo should not have one. Now, I have two conclusive answers to this Republic) n stock argument of the cimpaign : First, it is not gcimi.iie to the question, in parliamentary phrase ; it is not relative and material to tiie is.-.r.e, in legal phrase. For. even if true, it does j oi ] rove that it would not be better for the country to elect Gen. Hancock and make a change in the offices this year. But. in the second place, it is not true in fact Tho Democratic party, as a party, did not rebel against the Government, and the Republican party did not put down the rebellion. Let me show you that I am correct in this. The secessionists of the South rebelled against the Democratic party and put up a candidate in opposition to it in 1860, a year before they went into open rebellion against the Government. They ref used to support Douglas at Charleston, broke up the convention, and withdrew, and afterward nominated and voted for Breckinridge. After they had gone, tho National Democratic Convention reassembled at Baltimore and nominated Stephen A. Douglas, a loyal man and a patriot, and supported him, as a party, for President that year. When Mr. Lincoln was elected, it was the men who had left the Democratic party and voted for Breckinridge that went into rebellion, and Mr. Lincoln and the new Republican administration had in their first fearful trial no more welcome and powerful support than that rendered by Stephen A. Douglas, the defeated candidate of the National Democratic party. Now tell me, by what mean, partisan logic can .it be made out that the Democratic . party should be held responsible for men who had left it and fought it to the death, and how did it bring on a rebellion by voting for a great Northern statesman and patriot, who stood like a brother by Mr. Lincoln’s side in the supreme crisis of the Government ? No, this reckless and wholesale charge against the Democratic party will not stand. It is a false charge, and respectable Republicans should be ashamed to make use of it. There is one view in whieh Democrats possibly contributed to bring on the war, which by comparison is not altogether complimentary to the Republican party. At Charleston, as we have seen, they resisted and, refused to compromise with the slave power, and went bravely to certain defeat under Douglas rather than submit to Southern dictation. After Mr. Lincoln’s election, the Republican party in Congress voted to abandon their non-slavery extension principle, the vital plank in their platform, and compromise with the South if thereby the war could be averted. They were the ones, in this instance, that knuckled to the South. And equally false and even more mendacious is it to assert that the Republican party put down tho rebellion. No party put down tho Rebellion. The people put it down, the loyal people of tße whole country. Why ; fellow-citi-zens, look how the figures brand this falsehood. In that same election of 1860, which preceded the war, Mr. Lincoln (the Republican candidate) had. in round numbers, 1,800,000 votes, whil# Mr. Douglas (the candidate •of the Democratic party) had 1,300,000 votes. Now, I take it that' Mr. Lincoln received all the Republican votes, as there

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was no other Republican candidate, and I suppose it will not be contended that every Republican voter went to the war, and yet the figures show that there were over 2,800,000 Union soldiers enlisted in the war—l,ooo,ooo more than the whole Republican vote of the country! Now, my Republican friends, will you tell me where this extra 1,000,000 of Union, soldiers came from? It is mathematically demonstrate ed that they could not have come from the Republican party, and yet evidently they had something to do with pntting down the rebellion. You know, fellow-citizens, where this extra 1,000,000 of soldiers came from. They came froin the Democratic partv. Mr. Lincoln was elected by a minority vote—he lacked more than 930,000 votes of a majority. Had the 1,300,000 men who' supported Douglas at the North refused to sustain Mr. Lincoln in putting down the rebellion, where shcalld Vre have been? This was nearly half theftoyal vote of the country, and the South was united against ns. No, I say, let us be fair and just. As ono who differed from the Democratic party in those days, it is only the simple truth to say that without their help this Union would have been lo t.

Again, fellow-citizens, when we demand a change in the Government, we are met by the cry that the South is “solid” for the Democratic party. By this is meant, I suppose, tkat the Southern States are likely to cast their electoral'votes for Gen. Hancock. This, I presume, is quite probable to be the case, as the Republican leaders have declined to contest that section of the country, and practically withdraw all opposition to the Democratic party there. But suppose, under these circumstances, the South should be “solid” for the Democracy. What is there unnatural or unlawful about that? Nobody, not even tho most stalwart Republican, I take it, will dispute then - legal right to vote the Democratic ticket if they prefer that to the Republican. Is it not natural that they should prefer that to the Republican ? Why, what monstrous folly is all this talk of the Republicans about the “ solid South !” First, they abandon that whole section, take -earo that the South shall btF™ solids” and then fly in om Taces with tho" "preiTense that—this will be the imoeess otithe rebellion whiWi was suppressed fifteen years ago, and* the restoration of the slave power jin the Government fifteen years after Blavery"itself has ceased to exist. Now, there is no question that the eleven Southern States went into the rebellion, the States that supported Breckenridge in 1860 ; but they were reconstructed under Republican rule after the war, and sinco 1868 have been equal members in the Union the same as before. Republicans cannot find fault with this, for it was their party that restored them to their rights in the Government after freeing their slaves and giving them the ballot. It is complained now that these States do not support the Republican party and give majorities for the Republican ticket. What are the facts? In 1869, the first Presidential election after reconstruction, these States were nearly all carried for Gen. Grant, the Republican candidate, and this was the case also at Grant’s second election in 1872. Even in 1876, the last Presidential election, the Republicans claimed to have carried three of these States ; they took them whether they carried them or not. At that election there were, in round numbers. 1,200,000 Republican votes in the South. But since then Hayes, their own Presidents has removed tho bayonet, the negroes arc leavin' them, the South is recovering from the war and the carpet-bag devastation and growing prosperous, and these States are all passing out of their hands and giving majorities against them. Kindred to this talk about a “solid South,” and exceeding it in effrontery, is the outcry about “delivering the country over into the hands of the men who tried to destroy it.” I said this exceeded the other in effrontery, because, however senseless and baseless, that is urged as a simple argument or proposition from Slain facts and figures, but this, coming from epnblican organa and speakers, is stamped with such utter inconsistency and such damnable stultification as ought almost to blister the tongqe that utters it. I have no patience to argue with such a pretense as this. I can only denounce it. When we come this year and present a great Union soldier for President, a man who has risked his life a hundred times, and shed his blood to save this Union, and a loyal Northern mah for Vice President, we are met by such a cry as this from a party which for twelve years has honored conspicuous and bloodstained rebels with some of the highest offices in the Government. It is rebels, is it, that you mean by the “men who tried to destroy this Government?” Let me tell you there hasn’t been a day for twelve years that you have not rewarded rebels with office. Grant took an obscure rebel Colonel, who tried in his small, mean way to “destroy this Government,” fourth-rate lawyer though he was, and made him Attorney General, the law officer of the Government which he “tried to destroy.” Have you forgotten that? A rebel Judge presided over your convention that nominated Grant the second time, a convention that cheered to the echo James L. Orr, of South Carolina, an original fire-eater and secessionist whom your administration afterward sent as Ambassador to Russia. Longstreet, next to Lee, the leading rebel General, waa early rewarded by your administration with a fat Federal office, and has only lately been sent as Minister to Turkey to represent the Government which he came so near “destroying.” And do you remember Mosby, the rebel bushfighter and guerrilla, who shot our brave boys down from the fence corners and tho thicket—a name which we used to pronounce in the war times with objurgation and horror ? Well, he, too, under a Republican administration represents abroad the country which he “tried to destroy. ” Don’t you feel proud of him ? And there is the late* Postmaster General under Hayes, tho rebel Col. Key, who “tried to destroy” the Government, for superintending whose mailbags he was afterward paid SB,OOO a year by the Republican administration ! How does that look to you ? But you tell me these men have joined the Republican party. Does that, then, atone for their treason to their country and its flag? Do you wish to be understood to say that a United States army officer, who, at tho beginning of the Rebellion, deserted his command and his colors and went into the rebel army and fought us for four years unto the bloody death, can square his account with the Government by joining the Republican party and taking a lucrative office under it? And is lie any better for his double desertion than the rebel officer who lay down his sword and returned to his allegiance at the close of the war, but concluded to vote the Democratic ticket?

But you say : “Oh ! yes, Hancock is a good man. We don’t find any fanlt with him, - but we don’t like his company.” You "complain first that you can’t trust the Democratic party which is behind him. Yon charge that this party was disloyal in the war and will be entirely controlled by the rebel influence. I havo already shown you the great changes that have occurred in the party, the new and different Issues, and have just called your attention to tho fact that what you call the rebel element in that party is a minority section in the country. Now, let me tell you another thing that may surprise you. Not only is the rebel element in a minority in tho Government, but it is in a very decided minority in tho Democratic party also. Look again at the figures. Four years ago, at the last Presidential election, the Democratic vote was, in round numbers, 1,600,000 in the whole South, and only 1,038,000 in the rebel States, while it was 2,600,000 at the North —a vast preponderance of 1,000,000 votes, as you see, in the North. To hear Republicans talk in this campaign you would think that the whole Democratic strength was at the South. But you say the Democrats expect to carry the South. So they do ; and they expect, also, to carry a good part of the North. Do you know that their prospect is most excellent for carrying a majority of the electoral votes of the North ? AU we should need, to do that, would be the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio, now trembling in a close balance between the parties. Should yon wake up on the morning of Nov. 3 and find that Hancock had carried the North, as well as the South, what then would you say ? But, fellow-citizens, what is there to this most-bigoted assumption of the Republicans that all manner of evils and of ills will come upon the country if the Democratic party succeed this year? Has anybody beside Republicans any rights in this country ? Are all men outside of that organization public enemies ? It is well to understand some of these things. The whole argument on the other side proceeds upon the idea that the Democratic party is a vast organized conspiracy to overthrow the Government and destroy the country—that if they succeed the rebels will come into power and immediately proceed to do what they failed to accomplish in the war—that the rebel debt will be paid, the treasury bankrupted by rebel claims, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments repealed, and the negro disfranchised and practically reduced again to slaverv. Fellow-citizens, it is amazing that we should have to meet such stuff as this in every campaign ; but we shall as long as the Republican party is in existence. It would be a cnarity to believe that they do not know any better; but their leaders who say these things do know bet-

ter. They know that there is not a single word of truth in thenii They know that the Demo Cratic party in Congress refused td pay rebel claims, while their party has paid millions of them; that no Democrat anywhere proposes the payment of the rebel debt, or to disturb the amendments Of the constitution as to the negro, and that the party in all its conventions, National and State, has so resolved every year since the war, and that Gen. Hancock, in his letter of acceptance, took especial pains to say that he would, if President, exert ail lus power to maintain these results of the war inviolate and inviolable. And so said Mr. English, also. My Republican friends, give me your attention a moment, while I show vou by a most conclusive and overwhelming test that you have grossly slandered the Democratic Congress, and that the fears you would inculcate for party purposes are utterly groundless. One of "the leading arguments you use this very year to combat our demand for a change is the fact which you claim that everything is going right now, and that we do not need any change; that onr debt is being paid, our finances well guarded, and our people prosperous in their business. This was the argument of Mr. Schnrz, speaking for you at Indianapolis. You claim that the Government is being well enough managed! now, and that any change is unnecessary. “ Now I have thee, Jew.” The Congress of the United States, in both branches, is Democratic, and has been, the House for six years, the Senate for two years. These bodies constitute the legislative department of the Government, and not a dollar can be appropriated to carry on this Government without the vote of the House of Representatives ; not an appointed public officer without the confirmation of the Senate. In other words, if the House should refuse to vote the money, the ’ wheels of the Government would stop ; if the Senate should refuse to confirm, its executive offices would become vacant, and we should have revolution and chaos. And yet, mark, with this tremendous power in the hands of a Democratic'Congress, you confess that it has been so well and carefully used that there is not a jar in the Government, and that the machinery does not even need oiling ! Now another thirty. You do not like Haye ■•, and you confess that Hancock is a good man, and yet all we propose id to put Hancock in Hayes’ place and keep right on with this rebel Democratic Congress!

But, fellow-cilizens, I must dismiss all these things, t and come to another Republican pretense which is urged against our demand for a change iu the Government. It is claimed that we need a “ statesman” for President, and that we ought not to elect a ‘ ‘ mere soldier” to that high office. This is an argument which is somewhat new to Republicans, but they seem to take it kindly since the Chicago Convention, and especially since they found out that their candidate was not “soldier” enough to hurt him. Now why do we necessarily.need a statesman instead of "a soldier for President ? I deny that we do. Look at the reason and common sense of the matter. . There are three great departments to this Government. And this is the way they work. The two houses of Congress, which make the Legislative department, originate and enact the laws ; tho Supreme Court, which is the Judicial department, passes upon their i onstitutionality and validity wlien'any question is raised, and the President, who is tho Executive department, sees that they are executed. So his is an executive office, as it i ‘very name implies. Now what qualities do wo demand in such an officer? Manifestly executive qualities—qualities of will-power, of decision and energy. Gen. Hancock is no rough, unlettered man. Besides having all the executive ability and qualities of the great soldier, he is a nian of penetration and judgment, a man of most remarkable common sense and sagacity in civil affairs. Take liis orders at the South, take his letters to Sherman, and tell me where is the “statesman” or lawyer of our tiftes who has exceeded his understanding of our Government and its workings? These papers of his are indeed most remarkable, and stamp him as no mere fighting soldier, like Sheridan, but as belonging in intellect to that class of great states-men-soldiers, so to speak, of which the great Frederick and Napoleon are illustrious examples. But, fellow-citizens, if we must have a statesman for President, I insist that he should be a clean statesman ; one who has a fair and honest public record. The man who is elected by 50,000,000 of people to fill Washington’s seat should have a character above suspicion, at least above proof of dishonesty. I approach now a painful feature ’of this discussion. For the honor of my country, for the cause of public morality and decency, I could wish that there was no necessity for anv animadversion upon the personal character of a candidate for such an exalted office. And I shall say but a few words on a subject so unwelcome and so unpleasant. It was a great misfortune to the Republican party and the whole country that the Chicago Convention, in a moment of groat excitement and enthusiasm, and without knowing what it did, passing over Washburne and Edmunds, and other honest men, made the fatal and supreme mistake of taking its Presidential candidate from that group of a dozen unsavory and damaged politicians who, iu the most corrupt and venal period of our history, were exposed and disgraced by a Congressional committee of their own party. But the party which has made this great and unfortunate blunder, and which, bv making it, lias compelled me to discuss the record of its candidate, now lifts up its hands in holy horror at what it calls personal slander and “mud-throw-ing.” The Republican party, whoso slanders broke the great, good heart of Horace Greeley, which has followed Samuel J. Tilden four years with its lying pens, dipped in the malice of hell, and which has never yet. failed to assail and blacken the character of every public man who opposes it, now cries out against “ mud-throw-ing ! ” Gods, what a protest from such a quarter ! Now, I repeat that nothing is being said about Mr. Garfield except what is suggested by tho record of his public sayings and acts. Every candidate for President must necessarily put these in issue, and when the people shall be gagged and prevented by any means of discussing them, tills country is on the high road to despotism and destruction.

But if I must argue a proposition so plain, suppose we turn this matter round and take an illustration. Suppose now that tho day after Gen. Hancock was nominated at Cincinnati it had been discovered that during the war he had been court-martialed, by a commissidn, say, of ‘five officers, three of them his own immediate friends, for dishonestly conniving with some sutler to cheat the soldiers, or the Government. Suppose he had denied the charge, and had appeared before the commission and sworn that he had had no relations with the sutler, and had never received any money from him, but the commission found that he had, on their oaths, his friends with the rest. Now, what do you suppose the Republican party would have done about this ? Do you think they would have been so meek and modest that they would have kept still about it ? What ought they to do in such a case ? Why, who would not concede that, under such circumstances, they would be justified in spreading before the people the sworn record which proved that Gen. Hancock was a bribe-taker and a perjurer, and unfit to’be President ? Now, this is all the Democrats are doing with Gen. Garfield. He has been court-martialed by his own party in Congress; found guilty of conniving with an old political “sutler” by the name of Oakes Ames, notwithstanding he swore that he had had no such dealings with the said Ames. Do I overstate this matter? This is only one charge where there are a good many, but is it not a fair subject for comment? I could read to you for an hour what the leading Republican papers of the country said about this transaction, and how they denounced Mr. Garfield, some of them demanding his expul- . sion. These papers arenow supporting him for President, eating their own words, and are joining in the new position which the party is fast taking, that, after all, there was nothing very bad in the Credit Mobilier, and that Oakes Ames is a deeply-wronged and persecuted man ! If thiA line can only be established, it will carry relief and joy to Colfax and Patterson and aU the other “ Christian statesmen.”

I said there are other serious charges against Mr. Garfield—one of them, at least, as damaging as this one—his relation to the dishonest District paving ring, where it is confessed that he received $5,000, under the guise of legal services, for which he made no argument and prepared no brief, but did secure, as the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, an appropriation of millions of the people’s money to put into the pockets of a ring of swindlers for a rotten and worthless pavement. This is a most serious charge, and it is a part of the public record of this candidate. There are still other charges, hut these are enough. The unquestioned facts, without straining, show that this man is destitute oj high public integrity, and that should be enough. Whatever his talents, he belongs to that odious class of our modem public men who make unlawful gains and merchandise out of public office, and seek to cover up and expiate their iniquity by loud canting and snivel about “ freedom and religion.” In

the light of the facts as to their candidate, I submit it will not do for the Republican leaders and organs to talk about slanders and “ mudthrowmg ” and “ Giddiugs’ old districtnor will it answer for them to come to us with the magnanimous proposition to call it quits between their candidate and ours. The Democratic party this time lias nominated a candidate who is pure and clean, a candidate'who is “capable and honest ’’ up to the Jeffersonian standard —a grand man and hero, whose shining armor of truth breaks and turns even the missile of their political malice, and it has no bargains to make, no offsets to allow. It is the misfortune of the Republican party if they have a candidate whose public record can be successfully assailed, and for whom no sufficient defense can be made. So I sav to them : If we must have a “ statesman ” for President, give us a clean statesman and an honest one. And, finally, fellow-citizens, there is one further great reason why-iho Republican party ought to die and be swept from the earth. And that reason is because it has become the great disturber of national peace, and the great obstacle to national pacification. We must have an end to sectional feeling and bitterness; and now is tho time to have it. There was a reason why these Southern delegates at Cincinnati calied for tho nomination of Gen. Hancock. It was to put an end to this eternal cry of the Republican party against the South. It was to show the people of the North that they meant to be loyal, and that they were willing to vote for a t mau for President who marshaled the forces of the Union against them on the field of battle. “Give us Hancock,” they said, “the nian who fought us bravely in the field—true to his Government and his duty. Surely he was ‘ loyal,’ and no ‘ bloody shirt ’ can be waved against him.” This is what they said, and this is why the South will bo “ solid ” for Hancock at this election. If the people of the North are thoughtful and wise they will accept this proffered token of loyalty and good will, and make the hero, who was a lion on the heights of Gettysburg, The President whose mild and just rule .shall usher iq a lasting era of peace and fraternity between the once-contending sections. The South wants peace and good-mil. She is building up the waste places of war ; she is just starting upon a new career of enterprise and business prosperity. The North wants Southern trado and Southern money. Tho whole country wants rest and repose, and unity and brotherhood. Down with these war cries; down with these slanders and this sectional hate; down with the party which engenders these things, which can only live and thrive on thq memories of fraternal bloodshed, and which would poison a new generation with the hatreds and animosities of their fathers. There is danger in all this to the future peace of the country. The men of the South, who fought in the war, will never again take the sword, no matter how much they may be goaded or taunted. But who shall answer for their children if the Republican party continues to bear rule, and the successors of the Blaines and the Chandlers, tho Fryes and the Hales continue this ceaseless aggravation? Can. the American people afford to keep a party in power which thus threatens the Union with future convulsions? Democrats of Indiana, in this great battle for nstional purity and national peace, you hold the ceuter of the liuo. I pray you to stand firm for the right—firm as did our glorious leader at Gettysburg. Here will be the thickest of the fight—here you will receive the mighty shock of the enemy’s grandest assault. All around you his forces are now massing for the charge. Close up the ranks, stand to your guns, do your duty like men and patriots, and you shall send the broken legions of the foe flying in wreck and despair from this great central battle-field of the campaign. God grant that when the sun shall go down on that coming October day you may have won here a victory which shall thrill the lai)d from end to end, and cause tho anxious hearts of patriotic men everywhere to leap for joy that the power of the oppressor is broken and the republic may live and te immortal.

GEN. BEN F. BUTLER.

iffis (»rrat Speech at Fancnll IBali, j Host on All Effective Arraignment | of the Republican Early—Scathing References to Garfield. Benjamin F. Butler recently made a speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston. The hall was packed. The meeting was peaided over by Hon. Albert Palmer, of Boston, the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Independents of last year, who, in the opening speech, announced ! that he had decided to support Hancock. The | following is the substance of Gen. Butler’s j speech: Gen. Butler was enthusiastically received. When the cheering had subsided, he began to tell why ho had decided to support Hancock for the Presidency. In so doing he promised at the outset neither to detract from or add one ; jot or tittle to that declaration of principles which had been bis guide in political life—equal rights, equal powers, equal burdens, equal privileges and equal protection to all men by law under the Government. He said that he had examined-with care the platform of princi- | pies enunciated by the Democratic party at ; Cincinnati, and found nothing therein to eon- j travene them. Indeed, they were more dis- ; tinct.lv set forth therein, than in the platform of j the Chicago Convention. Neither of them went j so far ns he could desire in specific declaration j of the right of every man to vote in the election j of his rulers, and to be represented in his Government simply because lie is a man ; but in this regard even the platform of the Cincinnati Convention was the more specific. Gen. Butler continued: I unhesitating declare that, at the close of the war and .during the period of reconstruction, I was’Ono .Of those who believed stringent measures necessary for the protection of the newly-enfranchised colored citizens of the South. I was of tliis opinion in 1876, four years ago, and fought the 'Presidential campaign of that year upon that issue only. I was in earnest. I desired laws to he passed that should protect every man everywhere in his rights as a voter and citizen. But the first act, as we have Mr. Hayes, acquiesced in by his party, abandon all possible claim of right of interference in the South in behalf of the negro—td remove the few troops that were there, if anjfwere necessary, and to take pains to turn over the Governments of Louisiana and South Carolina to the Democratic party, destroying the Governments elected by Republican votes there, which, if they were not duly afld legally elected, then Mr. himgelf was not duly and legally elected. The assertion of the one fact must be the assertion of the other. The assertion of title to his office must he the assertion of title to the Republican State Government of Louisiana. The denial of the election of Gov. Packard to office was the denial of the election to office of Gov. Hayes. Indeed, Packard had some half a score thousand more of a majority than Hayes had. Nothing has been done, nay, nothing has been attempted to be done, to afford protection to the negro in tho South, or, indeed, anybody else there. Indeed, these States in the South were put in condition so that nothing could be done by the Federal Government. Nay, all, both white and black Republicans, have had no recognition at the hands of the administration, except the few men who wore engaged in the fake and fraudulent counting of electoral votes in the several States. In fact, Mr. Hayes, after his experience with them, would not admit there were enough Republicans honest enough to take the census, and his party now are finding fault with the enumeration made by his appointees. These facts are too notorious for comment even, much less denial. Am I, a friend of the negro, bound to fight another campaign in his behalf as a Republican, simply to see him abandoned and myself cheated once more ? What guarantee have I that Gen. Garfield will take a different view of this question from Gov. Hayes? They are both from Ohio, and each has been and is a supporter of the other. Why are Republicans to be deemed to have abandoned tneir political principles and gone over to the enemies of the country because we Sropose to vote for a Union General for Presient, while Mr. Hayes, who has been the moral and official head of the Republican party, second only to President Woolsev, of Yale, can with applause appoint a Confederate Genera! to a Cabinet office ? I fail to see any distinction between the two acts in any aspect, save that we are going to vote (or a great General, and Hayes appointed a little one. Now, then, it is because I am a friend of the negro ; it is because I desire to stand, for him ; it is because I desire to do all that in me lies to aid him in the difficult position in which he is placed by the attainment, so ueprepared, of the citizenship, that I now propose to act with the Democratic party. They can at least protect him, and, I believe, will do it. We have not heard of any oppression of the negro, or interference with his rights by any organized body of men, except at times of

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election. Why ? Because we were asking him to then vote and sustain the Republican parly. But while wo are asking him to do that, wo are not defending him in so doing. That raised antagonism between him and the white people of the South, and that antagonism was accompanied with all the bad results that arise from such antagonisms between ignorant men who are unrestrained by law. But now, in my judgment, the condition of things has changed. Late political events in Virginia show that when the power departed from the Republican party thero the two parties in the State divided upon other questions, and the negro enjoys there today as much freedom in voting and as much freedom in all other respects as any White man enjoys—far more, I am sorry to be obliged to allow, than does the laboring man of Massachusetts uuder some of the millowners of Worcester* county, which is the home of the junior member of the United States Senate, who met him in conclave for that purpose. The industrial condition of the South shows that the negro, necessary as a laborer, must be protected, and will be as soon as political antagonism dies out. The negro has since his freedom disappointed both friend and foe in two regards. First, it was believed that he would not labor as a free man, yet the South has never-raised by hundreds of thousands so many bales of cotton as the present year. Again it was believed that ho would not multiply without a master to preserve and protect his offspring.' But if tlio returns of Republi-can-appointed census officers are to be taken, ho has shown such increase in population as has always been deemed by the statisticians the highest evidence of happy homes and a prosperous people. Believing, as I do, with the election of Gen. Hancock race collisions will be at an end; knowing, as I do, that he has the executive power, determination and steadfastness in right that has never faltered, I think I can trust him to see that the promise of his letter of acceptance that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments shall be carried out in their letter and spirit. I freely confess to you that I desire to be in such relations of political kindness and courtesy - with the Democratic party that I may be permitted to point out in behalf of the colored men what I deem would be for the best interest of all, and what I doubt not will be their wish to do m his behalf. But of one thing I am certain, that I cannot. he more powerless for good to the colored race under Gen. Hancock, the Democratic party holding the Government, than I have, been, and every other friend of the colored man has been, under the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes. The only reason given why the Republican party should be continued in power is the present prosperity of the country, which, they do not explain how, is due to the legislation or administration of the Republican party." Is this claim a just and tenable one? But, citizens of Massachusetts, let us consider affairs a little nearer home, with which we are better acquainted. Before the advent of the Republican party into power every river and harbor on our coast was engaged in ship building. It was a vast and successful industry. New there is not a single ship being built in Massachusetts and hardly a half score of smaller crafts. Under Republican rule our commerce has been swept from the sea. We have hut a single line of steamships bearing our liag on the Atlantic, and another on the Pacific ocean, to do all our freighting by steam. Republican administration has given up our trade with South America.. The American flag is hardly seen on the ocean. The port of Boston has not sufficient fort igu commerce to give decent support to its small pilot force. Boston is losing its importance as a commercial city because of Republican legislation and administration. Its standard insurance company can And scarcely more marine risks than enough to pay its office rent. All the facts tlio merchants of Boston who sit around mo know- And yet it is proposed that they shall permit Republican athninistration to go on under which the desiruetlon of its interests is being accomplished. When the war closed nearly every one of our Beaport towns had fleets of fitlieriuen. All those have passed away, save in one. And why? Under Republican administration we have been negotiated out of the rights of all our fisheries m the Northern seas. Claiming to be tlio party of protect ion, the Republi an party have allowed the fish'of the Canadian provinces to come in free of duty, the duties on which would have been more than the value of tho entire catch of our fishermen in Canadian waters, even after the fish were caught and prepared for market, to say nothing about their value when swimming in tho sea. And at the same time a Republican administration has taxed the country more than 65,500,000 in gold that the Canadian fishermen might have the pr.vilege of free market against our fishermen for twelve years.

The Republican party claim that they desire a tariff for protection. The Democratic party insists, as it always has, upon a tariff for revenue. I see no difference between these two claims. A tariff for revenue must always work incidental protection. No tariff will ever! e devised in tliis country hereafter for any other purpose than raising a revenue. There can be no fear of a diminution of the revenue raised by tariff. Incidental protection of our products will be a necessity if the Democratic party have the power. The interest on the public debt, and the expenses of tlie Government, must be paid from revenue, either internal or tariff, and if the Democratic party should cut down the revenue from tariff, it would require more revenue from internal sources, to-wit, whisky and tobacco, to which their several States would never assent. Gen. Butler next touched upon the abuses which have crept into the Republican party through a long series of years in power. Has the Republican Convention, he asked, given us for its candidate oue who can correct these abuses ? He reviewed the Credit Mobilier business and the investigation of the committee, and said: I believe most,.of 'tlie gentlemen of that committee now say that there was nothing to impeach tho integrity of the nominee of the Republican party in receiving that stock. I agree with them. Ido not think there was any harm, and never did think thereewas any harm, in anybody’s receiving the stpek from Mr. Ames under the circumstances. I took that ground before the House in 1873. I have seen no occasion to alter my opinion. All the members who frankly testified before the committee that they had received the stock received no censure from the committee or from the country. But that is not tho point of my objection, which 1 am trying to make plain. Having taken the money as a dividend —for, says the proverb • “Itis no worse to eat the devil than to drink his broth "—my ideal of a President would not have denied it. The case is not without parallel in history of men notable to withstand the pressure of public opinion. Teter, when he got among the servants and retainers of the High Priests, denied his Master three times over, and cursed and swore to it until the cock crowed shame on him, and then he went out and wept bitterly. But then, I should not have voted for Peter as a Fresh dent to stand up in a crisis. Should have preferred one of the other disciples—even the doubting Thomas, who stood by his Master after he was convinced. What surety have I if I support Garfield when this cry of the stalwart wing of his party, that the negro must be protected, now so loud raked, is hushed after the election and the overrighteous newspapers of the party insist, as they before have insisted, that nothing shall be done by hk administration for the protection of tho negro, that their President will have courage to stand up against that clamor and do what is now claimed to be right, and so protect the negro ? Indeed, I much fear that he will not stand up to this issue of the campaign upon which he is to be elected, if elected at all, m any event, for I find that in the House of Representatives he made a declaration upon thk question, takingpreciselythe same position that I take to-day. These are his words : “ The man who attempts to get up a sectional issue will find himself without a party and without support.” But the advance leaders of his party, seeing the necessity of a war cry, have made the sectional issue that of the campaign, directly in contravention of their candidate’s words/ If their nominee was convinced in his own mind; if he uttered this declaration as the result of his deliberate judgment; if he will give up that judgment now for the sake of an election, what surety have I that he won’t -return to it again after the pressure is relieved from him and he k elected. Ho, as well as Hayes, may change on thk question. I cannot do it so readily. Is this man a leader for a great party ? Turn your contemplation for a moment toward the gallant General nominated at Cincinnati, who, in a long public life, has held many positions of the highest responsibility, where ilia course of action must be decided by his own unaided judgment and senso of right, and show me an instance where he has ever shrunk from any duty, however painful, when it was his dutv? If any one desires to read his mind, and search ont the springs of his action, let him read that most admirable letter to Gen. i Sherman upon the unhappy condition of affairs I arising out of the Presidential election of 1876. ■Written in the confidence and under the seal

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of private correspondence, it exhibit# Gen. Hancooke innermost thoughts as the Obedient.. soldier within The line where ohedvficO was duty, the anaulies 1 statesman who guided himself by research into the language ami principles of the constitution, taking that for his guide and evincing a determination not to recode one hair from its mandate, or stop one inch beyond its provision*) under whatever stress or pressure. Such is our leader, men of Massachusetts ! You have now the golden opportunity to put tho destinies of the country under the guidance of his firm hand, strong will, mature judgment, loyalty to the Union for which he battled and fidelity to its constitution, which he has ever made the guide of his action.

INDIANA NEBS.

Hobse-thieatss are playing their game to an alarming extent in Kosciusko county. A salt spring has been discovered west of South Bend, and Saginaw is notified that a dangerous rival is in tho field. Col. John A. Bridgeland, Consul at Havre, France, has returned to his home in Richmond, on vacation, to take part in the canvass and vote. Lynn Brooks, aged 21, living near Muncie, jilted by Ins affianced because he took another girl out riding,blew out his brains with a revolver. The Excelsior factory and flour and saW-mill of G. W. Bishop, at Walton, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, SIO,OOO ; insurance, small. Two surgeons are exploring the nose of a gmall child of William Stoops, of Counersville, in search of a carpet-tack secreted there by the infant, but so far without success. While a little daughter of James Brown, of Nashville, was playing on the floor, a cupboard fell over upon her'and crushed her so badly that she died in a few minutes afterward. Allen Nichols, a resident of Lawrence county, ran into his house near Fayetteville, speechless, and remained go till next morning, when he died. It is supposed that he had been bitten by a snake. An old goose at New Albany, with one leg, and one wing broken, and that had be£h deserted by the balance of tlio flock, deliberately threw its neck under the wheels of a wagon and allowed itself to be run over and killed. Caul Johnson, a Swede, was killed at the Oliver Chilled Blow Works, at South Bend, by the bursting of an emery wheel. He Avas sta idmg in front of the wheel, when one of the pieces struck him and crushed his face in.

While a lady was carrying her (>- montlis-old babe on one of the streets of Neiv Albany, a few evenings since, a boy exploded a roman candle, Avliieh struck the child on tlio head cutting a bad gash and burning the head severely. Cyrus Thomas and Ed Kidd, both colored, got into an altercation at Coiinorsville, when Kidd drew a revolver and shot Thomas in tho breast. Thomas walked a few steps, fell, and expired in fifteen minutes, wliilo Kidd made his escape during the excitement. While John H. Eck, of St. 4 Paul, Shelby county, owner of the Adams stone-quarries, Avas engaged in helping the workmen raise a large rock / the derrick suddenly gave Avay, one of the ropes striking him on the head, causing instant death. He leaves a wife and tAvo children. While Mrs. Sophia Meyers, of Richmond, Avas carrying a vessel of melted sealing-wax across tho kitchen, the handle melted oil and let the contents of the cup run into one of her shoes. It burned the skin off her ankle and foot, and cooked the flesh under it. In some places it Avas burned to the bone. The boundary line between Adams and Wells counties lias been infested for seme time past with a gang of tramps of the most disreputable character. They await every opportunity to pillage and plunder residences, and a few days ago one of the gang struck a girl working in a com field with a stone and fatally injured her. Charles Eggleston, of Rockport, 4 Spencer county, a young married mail, who has been considered insane at times, e for a year past, killed his infant. daughter the other night, by striking its head against the smoke-house. He has Ween tried by a lunacy commission, and ordered to the Insane Asylum. He said, “The Lord told me to kill the baby, and I had to do so.”

At Browning’s, three miles from Browhstown, Lase Morgan was knocked down with a club, and then unmercifully, pounded, by Dick Ban-, a young stripling not yet 21. Morgan died from the effects of the beating. Barr was immediately arrested, and, having waived an examination, was committed to jail. The assault was brutal in the extreme, and entirely unprovoked. Thomas Elzy, a highly respectable young man of New Albany, aged 19, met a horrible death, eight miles south of Hawesville, Ky., the other night, at a stave and heading factory. He had been at work in the factory, but, his widowed mother desiring his return home, he hart quit, and was in the factory bidding adieu to his fellow-workmen. He was standing near a circular saw, which was running at high velocity, when it burst, one of tlie fragments striking him over the left eye, literally splitting his head open and causing almost instant death. The German Central Conference lias made the following appointments for the New Albany and Louisville presidingelder district : Rev. H. G. Licli, presiding elder. Louisville, Market and Breckinridge Streets, G. Frefz and C. I’loch. Louisville, Jefferson Street, Andrew GracsNew Albany. C. J. Fritsche. Jeffersonville, J. H. Barth. Charlestown, J. H. Huber. Seymour, L. Miller. White Creek and Bedford, R. F. Kunschik. Bradford, J. Bockstaliler. Terre Haute, E. Ruff. Cannelton, J. Kuster. Santa Clinse, F. A. Hoff. Huntingburg, Bpeckmann. Booneville, J. F. Severinghaus. Evansville, J. W. Koecker. Henderson anl Salem, G. Bertram. MaiTS, J. H. Luckemeyer. Mt. Vernon, J. F. Pfeiffer. Golconda and Metropolis, 111., J.Lcppe*fc and J. Allinger. Nashville, Tcnn., 11. -A. Wulzen.

How His Life Was Saved.

Never go back on your ulster. It is a If e-preserver in more ways than one. A man out West who was in danger of being run over by a train of cars, pulled" •off his ulster and threw it in front of the train in the nick of time. The train was $ thrown from the track and the man’s life ; was saved. —Home Sentinel. Tennyson has written another play, and it is said to be a remarkable one,