Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EOREIGN NSWS. Fleming, Ried & Co.’a worsted mills at Greenock, the largest in Scotland, have been destroyed by fire. The British Government has ordered more troops to the West of Ireland. It is annoftnced that the Socialist Congress will be held in Zurich in 1881. Circulars have been sept to the principal Socialist societies of Europe inviting their co-operation. Fifty miners have been suffocated in a mine near Kattovntz, Germany. A Constantinople dispatch says the Sultan has declared that he would rather abdicate than yield to the wishes of the powers. He has had a protracted interview with Hobart Pasha. • The British Government has declared Counties Galway and Mayo to be in state of disturbance, and to need additional police.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East Tn a billiard match for the championship of America and a purse of SI,OOO, played at Now York by George F. Slosson and Jacob Schaefer, the former won by a score of 600 against 435. A young man at Jersey City, who was bitten by a dog twelve years ago, has just died, of what the doctors pronounce hydrophobia. The Holmes, Booth & Hayden manufacturing works at Waterbury, Ct., have been burned. Ixr.ss estimated at $200,000. The United States Grand Jury at Trenton, N. J., lias indicted Charles 11. Voorhis, member of Congress, for embezzling moneys of the Hackensack Bank. The Chase and the Faulkner mills, at Lowell, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $300,000. Prof. Benjamin Pierce, the celebrated mathematician and professor at Harvard College, is dead. James McDowell, a messenger for the Marine Bank, at New York, was robbed in a Wall street stage of a pocket-book containing $21,953. An accident on the Boston and Fitchburg railroad, near Littleton, Mass., resulted in the death of two passengers, and injuries, more or less serious, to fifteen others. ' Several yellow-fever patients have been admitted to the Quarantine Hospital at New York. There has been a serious accident on the New York and New England railroad, near Willimantic, Ct., caused by a collision between a passenger accommodation train and an extra freight train. 'Die wreck was a bad one. Engineers Kenyon and Flood and Firemen Forsyth and Hurley and Conductor Aldrich,of the freight train were killed. French & Ward’s woolen m ills at West Stoughton, Mass., with contents, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Exports from New York, exclusive of .specie, since Jan. 1, are $58,000,000 in excess of the exports for the same period of last year.

We«t The Chicago Exposition is now in its perfection. Everything is running smoothly. The show is varied and attractive, and the at tendance constantly increasing. The propeller William J. Livingston, Jr., owned by the Peshtigo Lumber Company, foundered and sank near Cana island, in Lake Michigan. Two men were killed by the explosion of a Democratic cannon at Plymouth, Ohio. The writing-paper mill at Elkhart, Ind., owned by J. R. Beardsley, John Cook and Mrs, B. L. Davenport, has been destroyed by tiro. Loss, $38,000 ; insurance, $1(1,000. A Wabash railway conductor named Whittaker attempted to put tramps off his train near Waverly, Ind., and was shot in the arm anddiead, receiving dangerous wounds. Work has been suspended in several of the Leadville mines in consequence of a fire breaking out in the Vulcan shaft of the Chrysolite mine. A safe in the ollie,e of the Western Hotel at St. Louis was robbed of money, watches, and other articles valued at between $3,000 and <4,000. Joseph Mehrens and wife were riding borne from LaCrosse, Wis., when a spark from the former’s pipe set lire to the straw in the wagon-box, and both were fatally burned. Dr. R. H. Williamson, a well known and respected physician of Milwaukee, has made an unsuccessful attempt at self-murder "by poisoning. Cause, domestic troubles. A fearfid tragedy has been enacted near New Canton, Pike county, 111. It seems that six miles from that town lived a family named Baker, consisting of father, mother, and two daughers. A young man named Sellers had been working for the family. While Mi-. Baker was from home, Sellers insisted that the daughter, aged 15 years, to whom he had become attached, should promise to marry him. This was refused, when Seilers drew a revolver and first shot the dog, and then immediately shot the mother and the daughter aged 15. He then placed the muzzle to his own temple and fired. Every shot was instantly fatal. Two negroes at a political meeting near Wyandotte, Kan., had a terrible fight. One, named Mason, demanded some money from George Harding, which was refused. Mason seized a huge knife and rushed at Harding, but was shot through the breast, not, however, before he cut the shooter four times. Both arc dead. John Mulhern, aged 16, while charivaring a newly-married couple at the home of 8. Burkey, in Monroe, Wis., was shot dead by Burkey. The murderer was arrested.

Boutb. Jacob Ball, the geologist and naturalist, died recently in his tent in Willeberger county, Texas, where he had gone on a scientific expedition. One death from yellow fever has been reported in New Orleans. The premises were properly disinfected, deceased buried immediately, and all means to prevent the spread of the fever promptly adopted. By the explosion of a gasoline lamp the three children of Wm. Clark, a leading business man of Jacksonville, Fla., were burned to death. Mrs. Clark is not expected to recover. Georgia held an election for State officers on the 6th inst. Gov. Colquitt was reelected Governor by a majority estimated at 45,000. At Charlotte, N. 0., the other night, a young man known as Doc. Jenkins was playing a game of “seven-up” with three other men, and the stakes were quite heavy. Jenkins was six in the game, and, holding a winning card, was in the act of throwing it when he dropped dead, still holding in his death-grasp t ie fatal card. Gus Wilkins, of Washington, N,

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accused by his son, 10 years old, of stealing cattle, got even with the lad by killing him. George Lowry and David Thomas have been hanged by the citizens of Nelson county, Va., for having grossly assaulted and robbed a widow named Massie, Luke Weiss, aged 15, of Baltimore, being whipped by his father, hanged himself.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Treasury officials estimate the amount of foreign gold that has arrived in thia country since July 1 at $35,000,000. A Washington dispatch says : “ Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has made hia report of the investigation in the South Carolina census matter to the Secretary of the Interior. Gen. Walker declines to give any information aa to the nature of the report, and Assistant Secretary Hall will not authorize any statement in the absence of Secretary Schurz. It is confidently stated, however, by persons wiio claim to know, that Gen. Walker, in the report, holds the theory that the census of 1870 was defective, and that the census of 1880 is correct, and that the apparent discrepancies are to be attributed to the assumed imperfections in the former census.” During the year ending June 30 last, postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards to the value of $32,087,342 were issued by the department at Washington, an increase of 9 per cent, over the previous year. A Washington dispatch says : Secretary Schurz made public the report of Superintendent Walker, of the Census Bureau,- on the alleged census frauds in South Carolina. The General gives his reasons for behoving the census of 1870 incorrect, attributing it mainly to defects of the law under which it was taken, that of 1850, and adds : “ The investigation instituted places it beyond a doubt, first, that the census of 1870 was grossly defective ; and, second, that the census of 1880 was substantially well taken. In no instance did anything appear which bore the semblance of fraud in the returns made to this office by the enumerators of 1880. In some districts nearly every family was identified as a resident in the township, notwithstanding the great extent of South Carolina townships, some of which embrace 100 and even 200 square miles. In all cases identification was carried far enough to put it beyond doubt that the fault of impossi-s ble gains reported over the census of 1870 lay with the preceding enumeration. It appears to me that the report of Special Agent Garrett satisfactorily settles the question as to the fairness of the tenth census in South Carolina.” Gen. Walker in conclusion says of the investigation : “I know’ of no reason why any further charge should be made against the enumeration recently brought to a conclusion by commissioned and sworn officers of the Government in South Carolina. The presumption which existed against their work has been completely overthrown, and a strong counterpresumption has been created by verification upon the ground of schedules of inhabitants, in the case of eighteen enumeration districts succossivoly taken for special investigation on* account of their exceptionably questionable character.”

POLITICAL FOINT3.

There was an election in Delaware on the 6th inst. for Inspectors and Assessors. A dispatch from Wilmington says : “Full returns from the State give the Democrats, for Inspectors, 9,529; Republicans, 8,673. Democratic majority, 856. On the vote for Assessois the Democrats received 9,495; Republicans, 8,806. Democratic majority, 689.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Over 12,000,000 bushels of grain were shipped to Europe from New York during the month of September. Dobler and Guyon, Chicago pedestrians, have sailed for England to take part in the Astley belt contest. Reports from the northwest territories indicate that the British Indians are in an excited frame of mind, and that serious trouble may be expected in the spring. A New York dispatch of the 6th inst. says “the epidemic now raging among the horses is spreading to all the animals in the stables of the car and stage companies. It is estimated that 10,000 animals are suffering from the disease in New York and Brooklyn.” The disease is also spreading in the cities of the Middle and Western States. Reports from the northwest territories indicate that the British Indians are in an excited frame of mind, and that serious trouble may be expected in the spring. The Mexican House of Representatives has declared Gen. Gonzales President of the republic. He'■•ill be inaugurated on the Ist of December. Gen. Stewart, of Virginia, Postmaster of the National House of Representatives since 1876, is dead. James Stevens, the founder of Fenianism. and for whom the British Government once offered a reward of 115,000, has been found in New York in a destitute condition.

Frightful Railroad Accident.

A terrible railroad accident occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Pittsburgh, on the 9th inst., by which nearly thirty persons lost their lives and a large number received injuries more or less serious. We glean from the local pipers the following particulars of the disaster: The first section of the Wall’s accommodation going east left the Union depot at 11:31 p. m., having a large crowd of passengers who had been to the city to participate in the closing exercises of the Exposition and to witness the Democratic demonstration. The back platform was so crowded that the headlight on the second section following could not be seen. The first section stopped at the regular station, Twenty-eighth street, where it was delayed on account of another train which was in the next block. The second section came along at good speed, but, owing to the crowds on the back platform of the first section, the signal lights were hidden from view, and consequently the engineer of the second section did not see the train ahead of him until he was so near it that his train could not be checked in time to arrest the collision, and the engine went crashing into the rear coach of the first section, packed as it was with human beings. Among these unfortunates the engine buried itself to the very car windows in among screaming, suffering men, women and children, mangling all who were in its course. The boiler-head of the colliding engine burst off by the shock, and the scalding water and steam poured over the occupants of the car as if bent on completing the horrible work that had gone before. It is impossible to describe the fearful scene that followed. The moans of the dying and wounded and shrieks of those who had lost their friends were frightful. Word was immediately telephoned to the Mayor’s office for assistance, and twenty-five policemen with a full corps of physicians and wagons were dispatched at once to the scene of the disaster, where they were soon busily employed in alleviating the sufferings of the victims and clearing the wreck. The wounded who were unable to care for themselves were carried to the Soldiers’ Hospital. located but a short distance from the accident. Up to the present time (Oct. 11.) twenty-four deaths have occurred. About twenty are dangerously wounded, several of them beyond hope of recovery.

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SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.

Why All Men With Any Character to Lose Among Them Will Vote and Work for Hancock. How the Policy of the Republican Party Drove the Most Decent of Its Southern Members From Its Ranks. At a conference of prominent Southern Republicans, held in New York last week, the following address, indicative of the feeling among the class of men who stood by the Republican party in the South as long as they considered it entitled to support, and in the face of popular opposition, was prepared and directed to be issued: The undersigned, having earnestly supported the Republican party in carrying out the principles of the reconstruction measures of Congress in the Southern States, feel constrained by the present situation in public affairs to state some of the grounds upon which a change in the party character of the national administration is demanded. The reconstruction measures were precipitated upon the South in a time of great public excitement. They were to subvert ideas, habits, and conditions fixed by the usage and experience of generations. This was to be done at a time and under circumstances well calculated to produce most serious apprehension. The disfranchisement of the principal propertyholders, coupled with the enfranchisement of the whole body of former slaves, to be put into operation in the midst of a disrupted condition of Government, alarmed the most thoughtful and patriotic citizens. Thoughtful men had hoped and expected gradual and carefullytested steps in the adjustment of matters so vital to the peace and equilibrium of society. But the alarm and opposition were greatly increased by the disgraceful and reckies conduct of many of the persons intrusted with the execution of this new order of things. This conduct inllamed prejudices and provoked conflicts. Instead of discountenancing the mis conduct of these persons by its restraining attention, the national administration has continually extended to them special countenance and favor, and has repressed the exertions of the more worthy and judicious supporters of reconstruction. We deem it sufficient simply to state the /acts, without indulging in any warmth of expression or referring in detail either to the repeated acts or to the general spirit and policy by which the the present and preceding administrations have made the management of reconstruction a curse to the colored race as well as to the white people of the Southern States.

But the first apprehension in relation to the immediate execution of the principles of the reconstruction measures has l e ii greatly relieved by time and the test of experience. ’ The disfranchisement feature having been removed, there is now a general acquiescence in the principles involved, as indeed nothing more than the fundamental ideas of the American system of government. But the recollection of unrestrained abuses still remains, and there is still a deep-grounded apprehension that such abuses may at any time be repeated in their worst form as long as the national administration continues in the hands of the Republican party. We are satisfied from personal knowledge derived from observation and from participation in the reconstruction policy, that a change in the party character of the national administration is now’ the surest and best means of placing reconstruction upon a safe and peaceful basis, and of at once uniting the country in mutual confidence and kindly relationship. And, as this should be the first and leading purpose of the American people in the pehding Presidential election, we believe it ought to override all party attachments and considerations. To elect a Republican President at this time by a sectional vote would be a public calamity of the gravest character. It would unquestionably set back the growing sentiment of nationality and unity which a just and enlightened policy in the management of reconstruction would long since have permanently secured. While wishing to avoid as far as possible any matter appealing to feeling rather than sober reason, we cannot well omit alluding to the fact that the Republican party has made its present campaign a direct attack upon the South by seeking to revive against it the distrusts and hostile feelings engendered by the war. We cannot be unmindful that this is being done for the purpose of securing a party triumph which is to install such distrust and. hostility in complete control of the national administration. It is natural and reasonable that the Southern people, so threatened, should unite in resisting, by their votes, the consummation of such a purpose ; and that they should appeal to the thoughtful and just men in the North for protection and support. We are unable to see in any existing conditions a reason why such protection should not be extended. Slavery no longer exists, so there is absolutely no sentiment in the South that would favor its restoration, and scarcely any that regrets its destruction. The Union has" been reconstructed upon the basis of freedom and political equality, and there is no element in the South that would attempt to have it otherwise. The sentiment has become practically universal among the Southern people that the Union is best security to thiir liberties and the surest the guarantee of their future prosperity and happiness. But they would not conceal their dread of evil from the organization into a political party of all who are unfriendly to them, for the purpose of controlling the common Government to their oppression and injury. We have sincerely regretted the failure of the Republican leaders to recognize the true situation of the Southern States Their mistakes and wrongful conduct, in the execution of the Reconstruction acts, have caused us to despair of their ability to establish mutual confidence and harmony between the sections. The sectional grounds upon which they are seeking to carry the pending election have forced us to distrust their disposition to regard the Southern people as equals in the Union.gor worthy to be trusted as participants in the common Government of their country. They have year by year steadily driven from the party in the South numbers of its most considerate' and earnest supporters, until they have practically destroyed it in every Southern State. Its revival in the future would be placed beyond all possibility by the success of their present attempt to elect a President by a sectional vote, under the hostile attitude they have made this campaign assume. The nomination of Gen. Hancock has placed the Democratic party upon the most elevated plane of devotion to the Union, the constitution and the execution of the laws. He has pledged the country an administration upon the safest and soundest principles of free institutions. This pledge is guaranteed by his proved devotion to the Union and his great public services, and by the firmness and purity of lais private character. We confidently believe that his election to the Presidency is the safest and surest means of removing all remaining obstacles to the perfect and peaceful establishment of reconstruction upon the basis of freedom and political equality and of restoring complete reconciliation and confidence between all sections of the country and among all classes of the people. The Southern people would then divide upon other issues, with no regard to race distinctions, and there would soon be established a normal condition of political sentiment and action, conducive alike to the interests and happiness of both races and to the general peace and welfare of the whole country. John Pool, Joseph S. Fowler, Daniel Coleman, James H. Embby, William G. Riley, George Williamson, Solomon Pool, William A. Gubthbie, John Tyler, E. P. Phelps, Alexander White. The signers to the above address are all men of note. Mr. John Pool was United States Senator from North Carolina from 1867 to 1773. Mr. Joseph S. Fowler was United States Senator from Tennessee from 1865 to 1871. Mr. Daniel Coleman, of North Carolina, was Assistant Postmaster General under the administration of Mr. Van Buren. Mr. James H. Embry, of Kentucky, was at one time on the bench, and afterward became the law partner of Reverdy Johnson and ex-Senator Doolittle, forming the law firm of Johnson, Doolittle & Embry. Mr. Wm. Gl Riley was Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Virginia and President of the District Court of Appeals from 1869 to 1873, and held two important consulates under Gen.

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“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles,”

Grant’s administration. Mr. Geo. Williamson, of Louisiana, was appointed United States Minister to Central America by President Grant, and served until about a year ago, when he resigned. Rev. Solomon Pool was professor of mathematics in the University of North Carolina, and was afterward President of the university for several years. Wm. A. Gurthrie is a prominent lawyer and politician in North Carolina. John Tyler, Jr., of Virginia, is the son of President Tyler. Rev. E. P. Phelps was a Hayes elector for the State at large in Virginia in 1876, and was a lay delegate from the State of Virginia to the General Conference of the Methodist Church which met in Cincinnati last May. Alex. White is an eminent lawyer, residing in Dallas, Tex. He was a member of Congress from Alabama in 1851-2, and again in 1873-4. A number of prominent Southern Republicans not present at the preparation of the address, but to whom copies were sent by mail, have written letters authorizing it to be stated that they fully concur in it. Among these are Wm. R. Rodman, for ten years a Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina ; Geo. W. Brooks, the United States District Judge of the Eastern District of North Carolina, and C. S. Winstead, many years in the North Carolina Senate and at one time Speaker of the Senate. David P. Lewis, the Governor of Alabama from 1873 to 1874 and at that time the ablest Republican leader in the State, has written a letter to Mr. John Pool, dated Sept. 23, 1880, approving the address and giving his own able and decided views upon public affairs.

GRANT’S GAB.

A Talk with Gen. Hancock on the Subject of the Grant-Fowler Interview—The Words Put Into the ExPresident’s Mouth Not Such as Soldiers Are Wont to Employ—A Promise that the Charges Will Be Met if They Were Made by Gen. Grant— Army Officers at the Capital Surprised at Grant's Descent Into the Mire of Politics. [New York Telegram to Chicago Times.] Gen. Hancock, when asked if he cared to say anything for publication about Gen. Grant’s conversation with the Rev. C. H. Fowler, replied : “I find it hard to believe that ex-President Grant should have said such harsh things about me. I cannot say that I believe he has said them. I have no positive proof, for example, of his saying that I am ‘ vain, ambitious and weak,’ or that I have been ‘crazy to be President for the last sixteen years.’ All that I can interest myself about at all is the fact that Gen. Grant has partially confirmed, in a Chicago paper, the report previously published of language said to have been used by him in conversation with Dr. Fowler, so that, as you see, I really have nothing nut what must be called hearsay or second-hand evidence as to I any of the things which ex-President j Grant is reported to have said of me or : about me to the Rev. Dr. Fowler. ” “Do you think it necessary for you to : take any notice of these statements, j General?” “ It might be necessary for me to take notice of statements deliberately made to my prejudice by ex-President Grant, but I think I have grounds for hesitating to believe that Gen. Grant can have attacked my character. In the first place, neither he nor any man has any true foundation on which to attack my motives or my character; and, in the second place, ex-President Grant is an old soldier and a graduate of West Point. I am and must be slow to believe that an old comrade in arms would attempt to blacken my motives or my character, even in a conversation not intended for publication. That is not a habit of soldiers." “If you should deem it necessary to reply to Gen. Grant’s alleged statements, assuming it to be proved that he made them, in what form would you couch the reply ? ” Smiling, Hancock replied: “ 1 really cannot say. ” “ Would you put it as a letter ?” “To whom should such a letter be addressed ?” “How have you supposed, hitherto, that Gen, Grant felt toward you personally, General?” * ‘ I have always supposed that he was a man who would never allow any illwill he might feel, if he felt any, to influence his conduct toward a brother soldier in ordinary conversation. I shall not be inclined to change my opinion, unless I am compelled to do so by the most indisputable evidence. Of course, I understand that the ex-President may desire to promote the Republican cause in politics ; but there are two ways of promoting the cause which a man espouses in politics. One way, if he is a Republican, is to advocate the Republican candidate ; another way is to attack the Democratic candidate. The newspapers, I prefer to think, do ex-Presi-dent Grant injustice in assuming that he has chosen the latter course. Of course, if ex-President Grant has wrongfully assailed me, the public will not be long in finding it out; but I shall not make undue haste in the matter. This is all I have to say at present.”

Opinions In Army Circles.

[Washington Telegram.] Presuming always that the reports of Grant’s utterances are correct, the main opinion in army circles is that Gen. Grant has lost by stepping down into the political arena to meddle where he is not personally concerned. His attack upon Gen. Hancock is regarded as being in most execrable taste, and one that in the end must detract much from his own position of independence as a private gentleman. As one of the officers put it: “Gen. Grant has renounced his character of the sphinx, and has stepped down to become one of the party bosses. ” Another said: “I think I see in this how bitterly Gen. Grant regrets his defeat at Chicago, and how jealous he is of Gen. Hancock. Nothing but jealousy could have inspired this attack, and this very feeling of jealousy shows Gen. Grant to be a much smaller man than was the general estimate before he befan to talk.” An officer who served in iouisiana during 1876 and 1877 says that Gen. Grant’s criticism of Gen. Hancock during his stay comes with an ill grace from Gen. Grant when it is a well-known fact that during the winter of 1876 and 1877 Gen. Grant was intriguing to get Brother-in-law Casey elected to the Senate by Packard. Had this been done he would have set up the Packard Government at once; but, this failing, he left the question to be solved by Mr. Hayes. Finally, friends of Gen. Hancock say that the latter will be fully able to take

' care of himself, but that he will be in no hurry. He will first find out how much of these statements Gen.- Grant will back over his own signature, and then the answer will come. Old politicians say that this attack of Grant is only another section of the Grant programme. Already Gen. Garfield has become a minor figure in the canvass, and if this Grant-Hancock controversy becomes very animated there is a danger that the Mentor statesman will be lost sight of entirely. It is remarked as part of Gen. Grant’s plot to make Garfield insignificant—as he truly is—as a party leader, and keep the Galena politician as prominent a figure us possible. No one here sees how Gen. Garfield is to derive any advantage from, this talk. The excessive importance given to Grant’s utterances is only another evidence of his being the most prominent man in his party.

I ften. Slocum’s Denial of the State- | mcnt Relative to the Battle of Oeti tjsbnrg.

[Cincinnati Telegram.] Gen. Slocum, in an interview to-day with a reporter, bluntly said that if Gen. Grant said, as quoted, that Gen. Hancock did not choose the battle ground at Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, then Gen. I Grant lies. “ For,” said the General, “Iwas there, and I know. I heard Hancock say : ‘ This is the spot to make the tight, and here we will make it." 1 not only saw Hancock at that place, but I stood there and heard him choose the spot, and had confidence enough in his generalship not to interfere.” This from Slocum is severe on Grant, if Fowler reports him right, for he makes Grant say this : He (Hancock) did not select the battle ground, as his dispatch to Gen. Meade shows, and thought of retiring from Cemetery Ridge, when Slocum came up and superseded him in command. So Grant was reported in the Commercial this morning, and Gen. Slocum ’ comes forward with a denial, and says : ; “I ought to know, for I was there.” Press Comments. ‘ ‘ STRANGELY FORGETFUL. ’ ’ [From the Philadelphia Times (Independent).] A month after the nomination of Gen. Garfield, and when Grant was sulking away in the mountains, an interview with him by L. G. Entright, an old Pacific friend of his, was reported in detail in the public journals, and never contradicted by Grant. In that interview he spoke freely of Gen. Hancock, sayI ing that, in his opinion, “No better or ' safer man could be elected to the Chief Magistracy.” Three days ago another ; interview was given in the party organs from Grant, as reported by Rev. Dr. , Fowler, a prominent Methodist minister. The interview was so grossly vitu- | perative, of both Hancock and the South, that it shocked even the friends of Garfield, and Grant hastened to modify the statements of his ministerial interviewer; but, after all the explanations that Grant made, he stands on record as falsifying himself about Gen. Hancock. When did Gen. Grant speak the truth about Gen. Hancock? Was he truthful when he declared, after Hancock’s nomination, that “No better or safer man could be elected to the Chief Magistracy,” or was he truthful when he declared Hancock to be “Crazy to be President,” and “Ambitious, vain and weak ?” In one of these statements, like his directly-conflicting statements respecting the South, Gen. Grant told what he believed to be the truth, and in the other he could not have done so. It will be remarked that ■when he vindicated the South, and commended Hancock as one of the best and safest men for the Presidency, he was not prompted by politicians, but spoke voluntarily, and for himself; and that when he condemned the South and Hancock he spoke immediately after conference with Garfield, Conkling, Cameron and Logan, who had gathered in Ohio to save Garfield’s own Republican State to the party. Very many men of all parties will profoundly regret that Gen. Grant has been so strangely forgetful of the integrity of his public opinions, and henceforth he will rank only with the desperate politicians who deluded him to defeat at Chicago, and whose friendship must be fatal to all his hopes of political success in the future. He has effaced all the little gilding that was left on the third-term banner, and that is an achievement for the country, but it is at a fearful cost of once freelyproffered homage to our great citizen and soldier. “an exhibition of partisan spleen.” [From the New York Herald (Independent).] The person who gave to the public the report of Grant’s conversation concerning Gen. Hancock certainly did him no sert vice, but a great injury. It will not raise Gen. Grant in the esteem even of Republicans to see him descending to the abuse of a fellow-soldier, whose gallantry and devotion to the Union he has on previous occasions freely acknowledged. To say now, in the heat and excitement of a political canvass, that the Democratic candidate is vain, that he is ambitious of the Presidency, that his is a petty character, only- brings to everybody’s recollection that in his cooler moments, and before he was moved by what will be generally esteemed partisan rancor, Gen, Grant said : “ There are men in that organization (the Democratic party), men like Bayard, McClellan, Hancock and others whom I knotv. They are as loyal and patriotic as any man. Bayard, for instance, would make a splendid President. I would not be afraid of the others in that office.” Recalling this language we may pass over what the General now says of his ftfllowsoldier as an ebullition Of partisan spleen, which, as it is unworthy of him, the public ought to overlook and forget. It has no weight, nor any importance, except as it rouses a regret in generous minds to see so eminent a man so forget himself.

REPUBLICANS FOR HANCOCK.

Mr. Jerome and Col. Forney Address* ing: a House Full of Men Who Can’t Stand Garfield. [From the New York Herald.] A meeting of a curious and significant character was held last evening in Chickering Hall. There were fully 2,000 people present, several hundred of whom were ladies of stylish and intelligent appearance. The fact appeared that it was a gathering of Republicans, who came together to indorse Hancock and to raise the wildest kind of applause at every mention of his name. They outheroded Herod, and threw dyed-in-the-wool Democrats entirely in the shade by their enthusiasm for the Democratic candidates. According to the card the meeting was called by-the “National

association ot Conservative Republican and Independent Voters,” and the responses must have been gratifying to the managers. At 8 o’clock there entered on the stage Mr. Leonard Jerome, accompanied by the orator of the evening, Mr. John W. Forney, of Philadelphia, and followed by Col. H. H. Hadley, Gen. George P. Este, T. B. Wakeman, Gen. P. H. Jones, Col. E. M. Lee, Gen. H. G. Worthington, Paul £. Forbes, Samuel S. Patterson, John T. Green, George H. Mitchell, Col. Runkle, of Philadelphia, and other Republicans. Col. Forney took a seat on the right of the Chairman, Mr. Leonard Jerome, and was greeted with several rounds of applause. Mr. Jerome, in opening the meeting, said : I am glad to meet so largo a number of Republicans who, like myself, intend to vote for Gen. Hancock. We belong to that body of independent Republicans who only wish that the country shall be well governed. If ever there was a time when the ordinary lay voter could properly take it upon himself to break out of party trammels, this is the time. We are at peace with all the world and ought to be at peace between ourselves. And «e would be at peace among ourselves if the Republican party for its own perpetuation had not decided to make civil war perpetual. The only object that the Republican party has had for sixteen years past has been to keep itself in power. ‘ We now are not Democrats and we are surely not Republicans, but a go-as-you-please party. We don’t like the Republican Southern policy nor its financial schemes, and particularly we don’t like Mr. Garfield. In Gen. Hancock we find not only the soldier, patriot and statesman, but a gentleman. I confess I should like to see a gentleman of the old school in the seat of Washington, Jefferson and Madison. Gen. Hancock would as soon think of cutting off his right hand as of dismissing a soldier or an officeholder on account of his political preferences. Chairman Jerome then called upon Col. H. H. Hadley, who read the address of the Conservative Republican and Independent voters. It was an elaborate statement of reasons why the nomination at Chicago was an unfit one, and it said of Gen. Hancock: Of stainless private character, no breath of scandal has ever touched his fame. His career as a soldier was brilliant, and equalled by but few ; his honor is unimpeachable, and of his patriotism and love of country there can be no question. In view of the orders and letters published while in command at Louisiana and Texas, his letter of acceptance,-his more-re-cently-published communication to Gen. Sherman, there can be no doubt of his eminent ability and thorough familiarity with the constitution of his country. And, because he is such a man, many of our members will vote for him, feeling that no injury can, under this administration, come to the country ; yet they still remain Republicans. Referring to the Credit Mobilier and De Golyer charges, the address says : “ If all these charges are true the American people, taking, pride in their high position as voters, should join hands, irrespective of party, and bury this candidate under the ruins of an unprecedented defeat. If they are untrue, we think a fair and just review of Gen. Garfield’s career in Congress proves him to be a man whose professions concerning measures are almost always inconsistent with his actions ; that he is without fixedness of purpose or stability es character ; in short, a ‘ political trimmer,’who, if President, would be controlled by the most reckless and objectionable leaders of his party. ” Col. Hadley said that in response to the circular of the Central Committee over 1,100 former Republicans had signed the roll of the club, and that clubs were forming in every city of the country. . Col. John W. Forney was next introduced and said : “I like the style of your Chairman, so direct and straightforward. For myself, having been born a Republican, -when I go into the Democratic ranks I return to the Republican party. There is no party which now assails the importance of general freedom and the universal suffrage, and I feel every moment that lam welcome. Not alone do I return, for I have an able i corps at my side. A week ago I spoke i with Gen. Butler at Pittsburgh, and on ■ the platform were 125 men who had come ynt from the Republican ranks. There is a deep evangelization going on. Blaine i may count and canvass and bully, but the fates have decided that Gen. Hancock is to be the next President. What a man he is when you come to study him ! What a study for the youth of our country! He will require the bravery of Jackson, the wisdom of Washington and the philosophy of Lincoln. But Providence will give him all this armor. Let him appoint Republican soldiers, let him appoint Democratic soldiers, and I then let him wind up the triumvirate i by appointing a Confederate soldier. Gen. Hancock is the chosen instrument of national and international reconciliation, and the only elements hostile to this great man are the men paid for their persecutions of others and hired for their hatreds.” Dr. Mitchell, the President of the > Hancock-English Republican Campaign Club of this city, having, as Chairman Jerome said, 974 members, spoke briefly in explanation of the mission of the club. Other Converts. Mr. John J. McDonald, of Mount Sterling, 111., a candidate on the Repub- ’ lican county ticket for State’s Attorney, ■ has investigated the charges against ' Garfield inSfconnection with the Credit : Mobilier and De Golyer schemes, and, having come to the conclusion that “no honest man who will carefully read the evidence ” can support the Chicago candidate, he publicly announces himself in ! favor of Hancock’s election.— Chicago Times. A. M. Funson, a prominent attorney of this city and a life-long RepubEcan, turns his back upon the radical party and espouses the cause of Hancock and English. This will be a severe loss to the RepubEcan party, as he has been one of their most effective speakers, and a young man of promise.— Letter from Nevada, lowa. Gen. Sisson, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, and long a prominent RepubEcan leader, has espoused the cause of the hero of Gettysburg. A recent great mass meeting of the Democracy in McCormick Hall, Chicago, was presided over by O. K. A. Hutchinson, a leading attorney and hitherto an ardent Republican. He says he can’t stomach Garfield, and will cast his first Democratic vote for Hancock.

THOSE AWFUL SOUTHERN CLAIMS!

Tennessee Stamps on “All Claims of a Disloyal Person in Any Way Arising: Out of tlie War.” In a recent speech delivered at Lewisburg, Tenn., John C. Burch, Secretary of the Senate and editor of the Nashville American, dealt with the “ bugbea? of Southern claims.” A charge which is made by the Republican speakers and writers, to mislead the honest masses of the North, is that when the Democracy get the Presidency, as they now have thf>

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' Senate and the House, they will bankrupt the i Government by paying rebel war debts, for emancipated slaves* and property of Con- ■ federates taken or destroyed by the Federal army. That this is a lie out qf whole doth, every man in the South knows. But there are thousands and tens of thousands of good citizens in the North who are made to beI lieve this unmitigated lie by the persistent misrepresentations of those they are accustomed to look to for political information and guidance. Even if we desired so to do, the constitution forever prohibits us, without a change of that, instrument, which cannot be accomplished but with the consent and approval of a large proportion of the North themselves. The Fourteenth amendment to the constitution declares : “Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss -or emancipation of any slave ; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” To alter or amend the constitution it is necessary that the alteration or amendment shall be proposed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, or by a general convention called on application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the States. The amendment, when proposed, must be ratified by three-fourths of the States, or' bv conventions in three-fourths thereof. Three-fourths are twenty-nine. The South has only sixteen. It would require a solid South and thirteen Northern States to alter or amend. No such amendment as we are charged with desiring is demanded, requested or contemplated by the people of the South. We went into the w T ar with all of our energy and all of our resources. We made the best tight we could. We were vanquished, and we will abide the result. When wo reflect on the bitterness with which Republican partisans pursue us. upon the malignity with which they misrepresent us, we are doubly, trebly thankful to the noble band of Northern patriots who have stood as a wall of fire between us and military despotism. In the third session of the Fortieth Congress (1870-71), when Mr. Garfield was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, the Army Appropriation bill established the Court of Claims, consisting of three Commissioners, “ who consider the justice and validity of i such claims as shall be brought before them of those citizens who remained loyal adherents to the cause and Government of the United States during the war, for stores or supplies taken or furnished during the Rebellion for the use of the army of the United States in States proclaimed as in insurrection the United States.” That commission reports to Congress on all claims presented. There cannot be a claim reported upon by that court belonging to one who was disloyal to the Union. No claim of a disloyal person in any way arising out of the war can be paid or will ever be presented to the Court of Claims by Congress. Alabama on the Claims Bugaboo. All address of the Democratic State Committee of Alabama has been issued. It thoroughly indorses Gen. Hancock’s letter on the claims question, and, summing up, says: “Our party in Alabama stands committed by its platform, by the action of every department of the State Government, and by the Judges of its courts elected by it, first, ti) the acceptance of the result of the war ; second, to the equal- political rights of every citizen; third, to the faithful maintenance of the public credit, State and national, and unflinching opposition to repudiation of any public obligations; fourth, to the free and fair exercise of the elective franchise; fifth, to the strictest economy in the administration of public affairs.”

UNION GENERALS FOR HANCOCK.

The following is a partial roster of the Generals of the Union army who have declared in favor of Gen. Hancock for the Presidency: Gen. 11. B. Banning, Ohio. Gen. Durbin Ward, Ohio. Gen. John T. McMahon, Ohio. Gen. James B. .Steedman, Ohio. Gen. Thomas Ewing, Ohio. Gen. Jacob R. Brinkerhoff, Ohio. Gen. Americus V. Rice, Ohio. Gon. George W. Morgan, Ohio Gen. Samuel E. Cary, Ohio. Gen. J. W. Denver, Ohio. Gen. A. J. Warner, Ohio. Gen. Aquila Wiley, Ohio. Gen. John P. Leedom, Ohio. Gen. Benjamin LeFevre, Ohio. Gen. M. L. Meilly, Ohio. Gen. H. H. Dodge, Ohio. Gen. Carrington, Ohio. Gen. James R. Slack, Indiana. Gen. M. D. Manson, Indiana. Gen. W. S. Love, Indiana. Gen. Franklin Landers, Indiana. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, Kentucky. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, Kentucky. Gen. Whittaker, Kentucky. Gen. John M. Corse, Illinois. Gen. John M. Palmer, Illinois. Gen. John F. Farnsworth, Illinois. Gen. John A. McClernand, Illinois. Gen. J. N. Stiles, Illinois. Gen. J. C. Black, Illinois. Gen. W. 8. Cameron, Illinois. Gen. W. R. M. Wallace, Illinois. Gen. Herman Lieb, Illinois. Gen. Thomas J. Crittenden, Missouri. Gen. James Craig, Missouri. Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, Kansas. Gen. Charles W. Blair, Kansas. Gen. Charles Parsons, Kansas. Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, lowa. Gen. Robert R. Livingston, Nebraska. Gen. W. W. Lowe. Nebraska. Gen. Samuel E. Brown, Colorado. Gen. Joseph Lane, Oregon. Gen. W. 8. Rosecrans, California. Gen. H. H. Sibley, Minnesota. Gen. Edward A. Bragg, Wisconsin. Gen. F. H. West, Wisconsin. Gen. B. F. Partridge, Michigan. Gen. Andrew T. Mcßeynolds, Michigan. Gen. John G. Parkhurst, Michigan. Gen. John Pulford, Michigan. Gen. Stevens, Michigan. Gen. Monroe, Michigan. Gen. J. H. Olney, West Virginia. Gen. John W. Horn, Maryland. Gen. John. P. Henley, Maryland. Gen. Charles E. Phelps, Maryland. Gen. W. H. Brady, Delaware. Gen. J. Park Postles, Delaware. Gen. George B. McClellan, New Jersey. Gen. Gersham Mott, New Jersey. Gen. Francis Price, New Jersey. Gen. W. H. Sterling, New Jersey. Gen. A. N. Dougherty, New Jersey. Gen. St. Clair A. Mulholland, Pennsylvania. Gen. A. L. Pleasonton, Pennsylvania. Gen. Wm. McCandles, Pennsylvania. Gen. Victor Lyle, Pennsylvania. Gen. T. Kilby Smith, Pennsylvania. Gen. W. W. H. Davis, Pennsylvania. Gen. 11. Seymour Lansing, Pennsylvania. Gen. E. G. Marshall, Pennsylvania. Gen. Theodore S. West, Pennsylvania. Gen. W. F. Smith, New York. Gen. H. W. Slocum, New York. Gen. Francis Sigel, New York. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, New York. Gen. James McQuade, New York. Gen. D. C. McCallum, New York. Gen. Patrick H. Jones, New York. Gen. Duncan G. Walker, New York. Gen. Charles A. Dana, New York. Gen. Frank B. Spinola, New York. Gen. E. F. Jones, New York. Geu. 8. F. Crooks, New York. Gen. Francis Dorr, New York. Gen. Martin T. MacMahon, New York. Gen. John B. Woodward, New York. Gen. M. R. Patrick, New York. Gen. Lester B. Faulkner, New York. Gen. Daniel H. Butterfield, New York. Gen. W. W. Averell, New York. Gen. James G. Grindlay, New York. Gen. Charles J. Powers, New York. Gen. W. H. Benjamin, New York. Gen. Charles A Johnson, New York. Gen. W. F. Rogers, New York. Gen. Duryea, New York. Gen. Varian, New York. Gen. R. B. Marcy, New York. Gen. Wm. B. Franklin, Connecticut. Gen. Darius N. Couch, Connecticut. Gen. Dwight Morris, Connecticut. Gen. James B. Coit, Connecticut. Gen. T. B. Crowley, New Hampshire, Gen. Frank Jones, New Hampshire. Gen. John G. Hazard, Rhode Island. Gen. Charles H. Page, Rhode Island. Gen. Charles W. Roberts, Maine. Gen. Wm. F. Bartlett, Massachusetts. Gen. Benj. F. Butler, Massachusetts. Gen. Jonas P. French, Massachusetts. Gen. M. T. Donohue, Massachusetts. Gen. A. P. Martin, Massachusetts. Gen. Luther Stevenson, Jr,, Massachusetts.

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“REBEL CLAIMS.”

WhoAro Their Beal Advocates. »—Barfield Responsible for the Payment of Five Million Dollars — Confidential Circular in isolation to Southern Claims—“ It Is Considered That the Interests of Both Claimants uml Attorneys Will Be Better Promoted by the Election of Barfield Titan That of Hancock, and Thus Continue the Republican Parly in Power—Address Remittances to Hon. Edward McPherson.” [Washington Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer,] The following is a copy of a circular which explains itself. It was forwarded here by a New York claim agent., wiio, under date of Oct, 2, says: “Inclosed I send you a copy of a circular received by mail yesterday. ” [Confidential.] Washington, D. C., Sept. 30, 1880. Dear Sir : The letter of Gen. Hancock in regard to the payment of claims leaves no doubt in the minds of those-who know him that ho .will sternly carry out his views as therein announced, and that he will “ promptly veto” any and all acts looking to such compensation as may hereafter be asked for loss incurred by citizens of the States in the llebelliou by the army of the United States, and also that he will urge upon Congress the repeal of any and all laws now- in force making it possible for claimants to procure pay us loyal citizens. From many of the Southern States, and by a great many prominent Democratic members of Congress from the South, have come expressions coinciding with and fully agreeing to the views expressed by Gen. Hancock. The position occupied by Gen. Garfield upon the subject of the payment of claims is, and has been, much more favorable to claimants than that assumed by Gen. Hancock in his letter. You are cited to the fact that Gen. Garfield was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations when the present Vice President, Hon. Wm. A. Wheeler, reported and had placed upon the Army Appropriation bill the “Act of Ith of July,” under which you and your clients ha ve received large awards, and that this measure received the ardent support of Gen. Garfield in a speech upon the subject. Also, that Gen. Garfield strongly urged the extension of the time of the Southern Claims Commission upon both occasions when said extension was made. It is extremely doubtful if the last extension of such time would have been made at all had it not been for the strong appeal made to the House by him, as you will see by referring to the Record, when the bill came up for consideration. Southern claimants, under the operation of the law- creating the commission, as you are aware, were paid nearly $5,000,000. It is considered, in the opinion of the bestposted and timronghly-conversant attorneys hero in Washington, that the interests of both claimants and attorneys will bo bi tter promoted by the election of Garfield than that of Hancock, and thus continue the llepublican party in power, as the liapublicans have ever been more favorable to the payment of a l l classes of claims than the Democrats. Witness, as an example, the conduct of the War Claims Committee, Bragg, of 'Wisconsin, Chairman, at the last session of Congress. To accomplish this, many of the attorneys hero have contributed liberally, and they now ark you to aid them all in your power. Any contribution that you may see fit to make can be forwarded to your local correspondent hers, with instructions as to its disposition, or scht to Hon. Edward McJ’iierson, tSecretary Itepublican Congressional 'Committee. Please be prompt, and make your response as liberally as you possibly can, for the demand is urgent, and the interest to be conserved is very great.

ROBERT C. WINTHROP ON SEC TIONALISM.

[From the Chicago Times. ] It is a significant circumstance that radical New England, which first began the political warfare against the South, and whose natural sagacity earliest foresaw that the conflict between the sections was inevitable, should be the first to incline to relinquish the sectional warfare. The disposition in New England to abandon the sectional issue has been observed elsewhere than in Maine this year, and the movement toward reconciliation will be greatly strengthened by the declaration of Robert C. Winthrop, which is printed herewith : Boston, Oct. 2. Robert C. Winthrop writes to the Post, stating that his name was used without his consent among tbe list of Vice Presidents at the Democratic rally Wednesday night. Mr. Winthrop says that for many years he has been an independent voter, and finally confesses that be is opposed to “ any concerted array of solid Norths against solid Souths. The sectional antagonism and contentions are worthy of all reprobation, and never more so than when fomented and kept alive on the one side or too other for the purpose of prolonging party power. They brought on the war, and they st ill interfere with the best fruits of peace. The condition of the freedmen themselves, their prospects of education, and their secure enjoyment of all the privileges of citizenship would, in my judgment, be far more hopeful if the pressure of a solid North were taken off from the Southern States, and if they could cease to feel, whether reasonably or unreasonably, that they were under the dominion of conquerors.” After saying that lie has no desire to vote on what the Electoral Commission did, or to find fault, with President Hayes’ administration, he concludes as follows : ‘‘ Let me only add that I am not one of those who foresee dangers to our institutions or to the general prosperity of the country in the success of the Democratic party, nor, in view of the great uncertainties of the result, does it seem worsq,to create a panic in advance by exaggerated partisan predictions. In my opinion there has never been a moment since the. war ended when it would have been safer to intrust the Government to such a man as Gen. Hancock, with the assurance that it would bo administered upon principles as broad as the constitution and as comprehensive as the Union.” Mr. Winthrop, while refusing to be counted as a member of the Democratjc organization, gives it as his deliberate judgment that the Presidential office can not only be trusted safely to the hands of Gen. Hancock, but that Hancock’s election will greatly benefit all sections of the country. The very language bf Mr. Winthrop’s declaration is absolute proof of its calmness, deliberation, wisdom, and freedom from all party bias. It is an indication that the best minds of New England arc turning with disgust from the sectional buncombe upon which the Republican party is putting its main reliance in this campaign, and that, while they have no sympathy with the reactionary sentiments of a considerable portion of the opposite party, they see in Gen. Hancock’s candidacy an escape from the extreme tendencies of both parties. With Gen. Hancock in the Presidential chair there will come, as they feel, a relief from the dead weight of a perennial sectional conflict, while at the same time there will be no danger that a brake will be put on the wheels of the nation’s political, social and material progress.

There is a quaint story told us about a Texan preacher who had a falling out with his congregation. While the congregation and pastor were at daggers’ points, the latter received an appoint* ment as chaplain of a penitentiary. When he came to preach his farewell he took the following verse for his text’: “I go to prepare a place for you, so that where I am ye may be also.”— Cfalccstoa News. * for the execution of Hale," said Thurlow Weed, in 1879, “ Washington would not have executed Andre. So said Lafayette. That declaration I heard from his own lips.”