Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1878 — Page 4

THE. INDIANA. STATE SENTIXJbX, WEDNESDAY .MOHNINGr, MAY 1, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. - , "Hosestt Is the best policy." Democracy and low taxes. 'Thfc'wor'ds are synonymous. Ovkr 2,1100,000 acres of land In Wisconsin has never been ploughed. It is all arable. The net income of the city of Boston from licensed liquor Baloocs lu3t year . was . A Sr0AY school boy of Maysvilleben asked if his father was a Christian, answered, "Yes, bnt he is not ' woraicg much at it now." Iarncm says he is never going to give Tip circus business. When too old for anything else he will go as a clown's joke, and after death ai a mummy. , . Lrrr prayers be made in all the churches for the regeneration of the republican leaders. Such moral lepers pollute Christianity and disgrace the American name. " I wcclb rather be right than president," said Henry Clay. "No man can afford to 'accept the office of president if the shadow 'of fraud affects the title," said Hayes. "Let 'us organize a commission and pre-empt the office," said hi3 advisers; and Hayes "saw 'it." " ' ' At the marriage of Mr. Feasiee and Miss Wright, ot Cincinnati, at the head of each of the church aisles was 1 floral gate at which were stationed two beautiful little girla, one a Jewess, the other a Christian, typical of liberality in all religious views, and of the sac redness of marriage under each dispensation. The bridal party passed through one gate when advancing to the altar, and through the other at the conclusion of the ceremony. ' A gkkti .Hew of Massachusetts received recently a package by express.. A bottle tightly corked was found, and in an instant somebody thought it was a brilliant joke because of the gentleman's fondness for "Bourbon." Something odd about the cork however attracted attention, and a prudent friend advised cauton. After close examination it was found that the bottle was air "infernal machine," and that by cutting the wires that bound the cork it would explode. It had enough powder in it to have killed 50 people. BROTHER KlYI.tSiS. Brother Bayliss, the political preacher in the interest of the republican party, yesterday delivered one of his characteristic sermons. Tweed, whose death places him beyond the reach of human denunciation, wa3 held up as an awful example of depravity and crime, whose long arms encircled the necks of 500,000 people all at once. We do not object to this. The policy of the democracy was to convict and punish Tweed. The last utterances of the old sinner were to ; the effect that he hoped that bisdeath would satisly Mr. Tilden -and other democrats who had hounded him to it. But we object to hunting up subjects to "pcint a Eioral" that have been handled so often as to be "more 'stale than a twice told tale," when the preset is so full of choice and more illustrious and more infamous examples that could be used with so much more telling effect. The columns of the Sentinel lately have been filled with documentary evidence of the full f ait ion of oae of the most gigantic crimes of the nineteenth century. Tweed stole millions of money from the people of New York. But the sum total of his stealing i3 but a very low rate of interest on the hundreds of millions stolen from the people of the southern states under republican carpet-bag rule. Then there are the Florida frauds, committed by the eyerolling, "thank God . we are not like other 'men" saints in the republican party, in which bribery, forgery and perjury were common instruments fh , the hands of the unprincipled leaders of the republican rarty, whose sole idea wa3 "the end3 'justify the means." The ends aimed at were the mainteaance of power, the triumph of partisanship, the dethronement of the right of the people to rule. What a theme for a teacher of .morality! What a theme for firing the heart of a sincere Christian and nerving the patriotic feeling of a true patriot: What an example of thefutility of sin and the triumph of the right do these Florida frauds furnish! "Be sure your sin will find you out" is a text Brother Bayliss has not yet exhausted. Let him pick the beam oat of hia own political eye before he goes for the mote ta the democratic eye. MfLIS, DEXJil AND IIAYKS. The confession of McLin and Dennis, two of the scoundrels who 6tole the vote of Florida for Hayes, is attracting much attention throughout the country. For the first time in the history of the American government we have a man in the presidential chair who holds bis office, ndt by virtue of the people's votes, but by reason of succes&ful forgery andperjary. The men who committed the forgery and the perjury are coming out one by one and confessing their crimes. Tne rascal who turns state's evidence la not always believed, but when the testimony is corroborated by that of others, a court does not hesitate to convict upon it. The testi mony of McLin and Dennis is supported by a chain of circumstances so strong that it must be believed by the most skeptical. Indeed, there is not an intelligent man in the country, who U not blinded by party passion, bu; knows aad has known since the fall of 1576 that Florida voted for Tilden and Hendricks. The confession of the Florida miscreants who helped to tranffer her vote Hayes only confirms what was already Known. The rote of Louisiana was also stolen from Tilden and given to Hayes, but in that cas8 Wells and Anderson and their negro associates acted under the forms of law, whereas in Florida McLin and his radical partner In crime gave Hayes the vote of that state, not only against, the verdict of the peopla, but in direct violation of the very law under which they claimed to act. That law gave them no judicial powers, yet they a.amed judicial functions, and instead of confining themselves to counting and proclaiming the vote as the law' required,

they sat as a court and rejected votes which were cast for Tilden, under the pretext that they. were illegally gtvem The supreme court of Florida decided that they had no power to do this, and directed them to certify the vote as it was given, but they refused to obey the . court, and the carpet-bagger Stearns lyingly certified their award to the president of the senate as the vote which Florida had cast This certificate of Stearns' was received by the electoral commission as evidence that Florida voted for Hayes, and the vote of that state was counted for him, whereby he became the acting president of the United States. He has-held his office for more than a year, bat he holds it not by the will of the people, but against their will. Rather than cause internal commotion and disturb the peace of the country the democracy allowed him to take the scat which belongeo. to another, but it proposes to cry aloud, and spare neither the men who stole the presidency nor the man who profited by the larceny. As he travels over the country, claiming to be the rightful executive of the government, he must ite humiliated whenever he looks an honest man in the face. He knows that he is an nsurper and a fraud, and if he were capable of shame he would hide his lace and turn away, now that one whom he deemed worthy of a high office tells the world how he helped to make him president over the people's will. ORGAMZE. We say to the democracy of Indiana, organize. Organize against thieves and perjurers, who have stolen the presidency aud confessed the crime. Organize against that policy that has bankrupted states, counties,

cities, your neighbors and yourselves. Or-1 gsnize against that policy of government that has plastered over your beautiful farms and business blocks with ten per cent, insurance mortgages. Organize against that party that has to be handicapped by state legislation to prevent it from ruining the prosperity of your city by excessive taxation to pamper and fatten useless city ol&cers and an ornamental police force which can not be relied upon for the protection . of your property, but yon have to depend upon a "merchants' 'police," which is paid by contribution after paying your city taxes. Organize on western Ideas of national finance, on Indiana ideas, as enunciated on the 20th of February, and say to the east, to the Wall street gold bugs. to Hayes and John Sherman, we own the ! horses and the wagon, and by the eternal we intend to drive. Frown down any division of your forces inaugurated by radical politicians of the Buchanan, Olleman. Pendleton and Walcot stripe. Organize for victory un der the old democratic banner; organize by road districts, by townships, by counties, by congressional districts, and elect a legislature which will enact wholesome laws, make a fair apportionment of the state, and elect a defender of Indiana's ideas of congressional legislation to the United States senate. Let your watchword be: All money must be issued by the government and be receivable for all debtspublic and private. No national bank or any other- class legislation to enrich the few at the exnense of the many. Democrats, we repeat, orsanize; do not desert us in these trying times for better days. Victory will come to the right as certainly as the harvest time come& to the husbandman. "Truth crashed to earth will rise again." Democracy will win because it is right, and then the people will rejoice, for its fruits will be happiness prosperity and better days to a depressed people. Organize. MK. IIAYES AM) DE'XIS. , Mr. Hayes expressed his obligations to Mr. Dennis, of Florida fraud fame, in the following letter: Kxwutivk Mansion, Washington', April 18, 1877. Dear Sir I am reliably assured that L.Q. Dennis, of Florida, would make a capital special agent of tlio treasury. I respectfully desire that his claims should have your favorable attention. Sincerely, II, 11. Hayes. Hod. Joan Hhennan and others. A correspondent of the New York Sun reports the following conversation with Mr. Dennis: COM1NO TO THE IOINT. Dennis went on to say : "Idont mind saying that I am certain the state of b lorida went for Tilden on the face of the returns, and that he should have had It. I will go further aud say that there bus not been a time In the past three months when. If I had been convinced that crushing prot of the fact, that Tiiden carried the flan would turn iUves out and give Tilden his rights, I would not have gladly furnihhed the proof. I knew that If my proof went before congress no man could stand up and vote to keep Hayes In his seat. I told 'Uncle Bon (General Butler) what I could do. and while he thinks ilayeri should, be turned out lie thought it best to wait till some action had been taken by congress iu the matter. I talked with Bon a tor Hamlin about it also." VKESIDENT HAVES KNEW ALL. ' ' "Eld the president know Uiat you had thebe facts in reserve?" 'Of course he did, all the time. Noyes and the reht of them told him. I met him frequently, and he always treated me very kindly, saying he had been told about me. lie gave me notes to the department, asking that I be fiven a place. I wanted to be an auditor, and declined three places, holding one only a few weeks." . "Why, then, do you oppose llayes?" "Because he is a traitor to the patty that pat him Lu, and treated my friends badly. -As Conkling fays, if the country only knew llayes us well a congress dots he would be despised on all sides. Noyes knew of every movement that wus made in Florida, and Hayes knew It through him. I know thN to be true, and can show it when the time comes." DENNIS FKK31ITENS NOYKsl, In along conversation with Dennis he went over with yonr correspondent all the lending events of th Florida campaign and count,and in almost every case explained the method by which the republicans perfected their frauds. Jle was very much amused, and laughed expecially at old man Lotto lbtall, who thought he saw him shoving money into the pocket of a witness In the canvassing room, Raying the fellow had been paid for his ntlidavlt ten days letore. ills knowledge of tiie campaign Is thorough and complete, and he oantbownp every feature, He bays that if he had been forced to swear before the canvassing board he . would have told the truth, as he would not have sworn falsely on any accouuU - When Noyes pressed him to take the stand he said, If you are not prepared to give up your case don't force me on the stand.' Noyes therefore withdrew his reroest. These exposures" carry with them the impress of truth. They corroborate what the democrats charged and proved at tbe time, and no comment of ours could add to the indignation they occasioned or the feeling of disgust with which the people viewed them. The organs of this party, with a cheek that is sublime in Its impudence, say that these frauds ' are white compared to the black , crimes of the democracy, and that the rascals who have deserted them are scoundrels and unworthy of belief. A murderer on his dying bed cr on the gallows, on the same principle, is unworthy of belief. Every criminal who is sentenced by the judge after conviction by the jury almost Invariably declares the wit

nesses are perjurers and the trial was unfair. So in this case. The eiid is not "yet ; If the American people tamely submit to this invasion of their rights, this reversion of their . verdict, thTsVrime against their liberties, it is but bowing their necks to the yoke of vassallage. 1 The time has come for action. The overthrow of these miscreants must inaugurate a new era in American politicsTame submission is but an ncquiesence in the theory that the government of this country is the republican party and the people are slaves in the interest of its leaders. We do not intend to let this subject rest. If with the damning record of the republican villainy exposed so fully to them, the people bow their beads in meek submission it will behoove them next to hold out their hands for the chains that will next be produced. Subserviency now means submission to the greater wrongs that will surely follow. Let the cry be raised " Down with the traitor." Let the motto be "The right shall prevail." "Let justice be done though the heavens CHOICE EXTRACTS FROM TIIE JOl'KMAX. WITH COMMENTS THEUEOs". Any man ht to be presiuent or even a can dldate ot a great party lor the oltice would prefer to be counted out by fraud rather than be counted in by fraud ot which there is a reasonabe suspicion. Mr. Hayes In November, ls"t$. I was siiown numerous telegrams addressed to Governor Htearns and others from trusted leaders of the republican party north, insisting that the salvation of the country depended upon the otoof Florida being east for Jlc. p o p Tbena telegrams also gave assurance of the forthcoming of money nnd troops, If neeessury, in securing the victory 'for Mr. Hayes. .?, These telegrams came .from and the man who was the nearest personal friend of Mr. Hayes. , ". I wss surrounded especially by the friends of Governor Hnyes. One gentlemaa particularly, Governor Noyes. of Ohio, was understood to represent and speak with the authority of a warm personal friend, commissioned with power to act, la his behalf. 1 can't say how far my action was Influenced oy the promise made by Mr. Noyes that iMr. llayes became president I should be rewarded. After the returns had been brought to Gainesville (Alachua county 2Vt votes were added to them by the Inspector nud clerk of said precinct. " in Ieon county 71 republican ballots were stuffed into the ballot-box. The conclusion is therefore Irresistible that Mr. Tilden was entitled to-the electoral vote of Florid:!, and hot Mr. Hayes. McLin in his confession. - Those who talk aimnt war forget that the great question is, 'ho m eouxtitutionalli elnleil lrevident of the Uuitnl State f not which party Khali control the government during the next four years? Indianapolis Journal, Mo v. is, 1Jn7. The democrats are massing on Tallahassee, Florida. They think that missing vote can bo found In the everglades of Florida. Perhaps it may be, but nobody will know till the ofliclal count is made. Journal, Nov. 21, 176. We coneratulate our readers upon the news from Florida, on a full count of the vote of that state, without reference to a'.lcyrti (tmux ratit: frauds, and without thiiwina out vr rehx-liitfr n xinrte precinct. Governor Hayes carries the state by a clear majority of 40. A majority of the coun'y election boards were democratic, and there is abundant reason to believe that In some ln-tances the returns had been doctored and tampered with In the interests of the democracy. Journal, Nov. '), ISTti. Attorney General Cooke, the democratic candidate of the Foriaa returning board, agreed with his two republican colleagues in throwing oat the vote of Key West precinct, which gave Tilden a majority of 312. Upon this action the board was unanimous and that alone gave the vote of the state, by a handSome majority, to the llayes electors . Journal, Dec. X, lSTti. Hnbseyuently both Black ami Vance came to me and Mild they had returns from Archer precinct, box No. xiynetl in bktnk bi the iujec' tor, ami they icuulil make out the returns o as to the exjterlation of their oien pnrly. They retired to a private room, where they remained two or three hours, nnd then informed me they had added about 200 names to the poll list and had increased the republican vote to that extent. 1 entered the room and saw them copying tames from the county registration books and new named selected from the names of republican voters who had not already voted at that precinct. After completing the returns ia this manner they filed them away with the county clerk, etc. Dennis' late confessions. General Leu Wallace arrived t home from Florid on .Saturday last in excellent health, anb with a feeling of unusual satisfaction because of the successful result of the efforts made by the republican committees in both Ixulsiana and Florida. General Wallace took an active and leading part in defeating the attempt of the democracy to secure the votes of those states for Tilden." Journal, Dec, lba. ' After reaching this point our disgust culminated, and we closed the shameful record. We ask the voters of Indianapolis, who in a few days will cast thelrvotes for city officials1 if they can see anything in the above ex

tracts from republican officials and organs j that would induce them to longer extend their confidence to . that party. Isn't the shameful exposure sufficient to arouse the indignation and disgust of every honest man? In longer continuing this party in power in any community we but indorse the villainy the late disclosures expose. Turn away from the fraud and vote for the democracy and honest government. HOW SO YES EARNED A MISS I OX. II1 Active Defense of Vlarlns Fraiuls Described by Jlr. Malcolm Hay. Hpectal Dispatch to the New York World. Pitts n cbg, l'a.,' April 25 Mr. Malcolm Hay was called upon to day by a representative of the World in regard to the confessions of McLin and Dennis, ot Florida. He went to Tallahassee, Fla., with others to watch the count of the vote of that state in 1S7. He was specially charged with looking after the frauds in' Archer precinct. No. 2, , Alachua county. He went to Gainesville and examined a number of persons as witnesses, including Moore and Dukes, two of the election officers, who made oath that the vote of the precinct was 180 for Hayes and . 13G for Tilden. Mr. Fleming, a reputable merchant, who kept a list of all persons voting, corresponding with the above number of votes, and Mr. Tucker, since sheriff of the county, who was present at the close of the polls, aided in the canvass of the vote and heard it announced as above given. All ot them make affidavits to theee facts. They bo went before the board of canvassers at Tallahassee and repeated their testimony under oath, Un the night of the election the ballot box was taken to Dennis' house, at Gainesville, and 214 votes fraudulently added to the Hayes poll and five fraudulently taken from those cast for-Mr. Til den. "All these facts." said Mr. Hay. "were fully and absolutely proved before the board, which sustained the fraud in defiance of the evidence ar.d of the decision of the supreme court. The confession ot the criminal, McLin, does not and can not add to the certainty that a fraud was consummated by and through the returning board, and this confession does not make the facts any stronger to day than they were in 1870, when every honest man in Florida, if not in this whole country, knew that Mr. Tilden had been defrauded out of the electoral vote of Florida." Mr. Haw also states that Minister Noyes appeared as chief attorney for the Hayes electors, and the general impression among all classes was that he was there as the personal representative of Mr. Hayes. Mr. Noyes read a defense of the Alachua fraud, glaring and apparent though the fraud was, and the majority of the board accepted it and decided accordingly. Mr. George W. Guthrie, of this city, was also in Tallahassee at the same time, and recited substantially the same facts as Mr. Hay. Mr. Guthrie says that Mr. Noyes was credited with being Mr. Hayes' representative, and was active in the defense of every fraud committed ia behalf of the republican electors. - - . .

THE JOHNSON MO.M ffl EXT.

A. Tasteful Memorial to tlie Late ExPresident An Inscription Characteristic of Ills Simple aud Honrs Virtues. .. .' J Correspondence of the Brooklyn Eagle. Gkesxvillk, East Tennessee, April 10, 1S7.H. This little mountain town is of interest to the traveler, associated as it is with the name of Andrew Johnson, ajid its people are ever ready to extend a welcome hand to those who are drawn thither by a desire to see the home of the village tailor and the grave of the seventeenth president of the United States. His library, after his return to Greenville in 180.S, was separate from the house, and was a large, lofty room, tilled with his papers and law books. Here he spent a large portion of his time, and particularly would he be found poring over some work or engaged in writing long after everybody in town was asleep. The library, as the home, is closed now, and there is none of his name living in Greenville. The children, three in number, are separated, Mrs. Stover and Andrew Johnson living in Carter county, and Mrs. Patterson, the eldest daughter, is some 12 miles away, residing on her farm. She has supervision over the papers and boois of her father, and is the care ta iter of all the interests of the family so far a3 they relate to the fame and name of the ex-president. Her husband Hon. David Patterson, member of congress during Mr. Johnson's administration is a successful farmer, and his only son, Andrew Johnson, again, is very like him in his preference for farm life. The daughter, now a young lady, is at school north, and the four constitute the household, with which Mr. Johnson spent much of his time the last years .of his life. The other daughter, Mrs. Stover, has a son also named for hfs grandfather, and two daughters, one of whpm married the private secretary of Mr. Johnson. This gentleman, Mr. Maloney, is living in Greenville, and is the representative of the family here. Andrew Johnson, the ex president's only son, had a newspaper here for a time, and at one time took part in politics to some extent, but he exhibited little desire for public life, aud latterly haa given up all interest in it. He is quite young, however, and may come into public notice in the future. When Mr. Johnson died three years ago his property was estimated to-be worth $75,000 to $1,30,000, but the estate did not realize this amount, because of the hard times. It was equally divided among the three children; after a sum was set apart for the purchase of a monument,' and added to what tbey possessed previously, has left them all in entirely comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Andrew Johnson, who was for so many long years an invalid, outlived her husband and died in the house of her daughter, Mrs. Patterson. She was burled beside her husband in the romanticburyingground he selected for himself. Very soon this graveyard will be the scene of a touching ceremony. Over the graves of their illustrious father and revered mother the children have erected A COLOSSAL MOXl'MKKT, and a time has been set for a public ceremony which shall be in accordance with the deserts of the dead. The monument, standing in the center of the picturesque spot selected many years ago by Mr. Johnson, can be seen for 20 miles all around. The monument, the design of which was selected out of many offered, and made in Philadelphia, was ordered by the three children of Mr. Johnson and paid for by them. It stands 20 feet in heigt, and towers high above the surrounding foliage. Its broad base is of granite, with a plinth die. The base is nine feet six inches square at the ground. Granite piers rest on each of the graves lying side by side, over which is sprung A OKAXITE AltCH," snd upon this the monument rests, leaving an - opening under the arch in which the graves are visible. The arch and base are four feet six inches high to the botton of the marble plinth. The plinth is four feet six inches square and threejfeet six inches high, and at either side stands piis3ters supporting funeral urns, each three feet three inches high. The die is three feet six inches square at the base, and three feet two inches high, and upon the front is carved a scroll representing the constitution of the United States, and an open book with a hand resting upon it, representing the taking of the oath of office. The shaft is thirteen feet high and two feet ten inches square at the base, tapering to the apex, over which hangs an American flag in graceful folds, and surmounting the whole is an eagle with outstretched wing3. THK IXSCRI1TION on the monument . is simple, containing, with the addition of the name and age and death of Mrs. Johnson, the following: "Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President U. 8. A. Born December 29, 1808. Died July 31, 1873." A pleasant fact in connection with the above inscription is that the motto was the suggestion of Hon. Thomas Kinsella. Many months ago, when the matter was submitted to his judgment, he said that the chief characteristic of Mr. Johnson was his abiding taith in the people and his conviction that they would approve his efforts. He gave this line as embodying his sentiments, which the (laughters accepted, and it stands to-day and will for all time, on. the tomb of Tennessee's loyal and loving son. The unveiling will occur Tuesday, the 28th of May, and every preparation ia being made to have it an imjosing affair. ' The masonic fraternity, of which be was, for a larger part of his life, a member, will take part in the ceremonies, as they did in the burial, and the knights templar will march in the procejsion from Greenville. The family in selecting the speakers have been guided by a desire to have the service of a hesrtfelt rather than of a formal nature, and they have therefore invited speakers who will have the warm incentive of f nendship as well as admiration for the dead to inspire them. Colonel George W. Jones, of Tennessee, and Mrs. Laura C. Holloway, of Brooklyn, are the speakers invited to make addresses. The occasion will be one of great interest to the people of East Tennessee, and no doubt it will be a grand affair, second only to the sad occasion which drew them together three years ago. Tlie U best Harvest. Graphic. There can be' no longer any reasonable doubt that our wheat crop this year is to be unprecedentedly large. In the first place, the acreage Is much larger than ever before. Secondly, the winter was mild, the spring sunny and rains abundant. Thirdly, the season has been so advanced that the crop in the southwest is almost ready for the reaper, and nothing can now injure it except a succession of weeks of most unfavorable and disastrous weather. In Texas the harvest will begin within the few remaining days of this month; in southern Illinois, w.hcre the winter wheat was never so forward, they will harvest in May. Everywhere the reports are in the same tone; never so much land sowed with wheat; ne'ter so fair a prospect of a great yield. The new emigrants into Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota have not been idle: they have put in their first crops, and thousands of acres of land which last year were unbroken prairie are now wheat fields. In Europe the senson has not been so favorable. In England the spring has been rather late and cold, but the winter crops are looking as well as usual. In France the season has also been backward, but the crops are not injured, and gaod weather now will secure a bountiful yield. In Germsny trtveh damage has been done by cold and host, and the prospects are ndt good. In HoMand everything looks welL In Spam a protracted drought has so iojuil the wheat crop that

the yield may be very smalL In I'ussia, while the crop of this year will not be so large as usual, oifing to the absence of many cultivators in the war, there Is no scarcity, and large expoits of wheat continue from the Black sea ports. The harvest is over in Australia, the crop was a partial failure; but there is a surplus of 5,500,0'K) bushels for export. . We may be certain, on the whole, that the whole world will have bread in plenty this year, and. that prices will not be high. This will injure none but beneiit all. Farmers will make up by the increase of their sales for low prices; and cheap and abundant bread is a universal blessrng. THE SET PRESIDENT. "Gain's" Idea, of Ihe Coming ttan-IIen. lrlek to t- Nominated on the Firot Ballot. Writing from New York to th Philadelphia Times. "Gith" says: The two itemsof interest I learned at the launch Saturday were from Secretary Schurz, saying it was u fortunate thing for public morals that old Granny Howe had undertaken the role of Balaam; and from Speaker Cooper, expres ing the belief that Don Cameron's re-election was certain unless the democrats got the legislature. The powers of good and evil are yet In their first fresh contention, Hayes gaining in steadiness and anti-Hayes dropping off very little in cussedness. The latter now base all their hopes on running Grant in 180, but while they coalesce on that hope the multitude is antagonizing on Grant. Dull as the. times are, people feci that they medicine us and behold in Grunt's return to power the circling vultures flying lower. Everv day, while the politicians resolve on Grant, the people, even tlnjse who apologized for him, grow cooler. It is not Grant, but Grantism, which repels; oat the wooden Trojan horse, but tho thieves in his belly. While Hayes stiffiy resists the Grant puddle at Washington, there is no great interest about his successor. Everybody sees that he is starving the politicians out, aad that is why the more hungry band, led by Conkling and his pals, support Huntington and Gould. GEIXT A.ND HEXDEICKS. By present indications x nomas a. Hendricks will be nominated on the first ballot in 18S0, unless the party organs and leaders sell out for cash in hand, and Tilden wins again. Tilden and Hendricks may extinguish each o&er and .Judge Thurnian succeed. The vice present will be' almost certain to be a sovt.erner, Tom Bayard having a chance, Gordon or Hansom the probability. In this city Hendricks is the favorite of the Kelly wing, to which belongs Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, and Bayard continues to be the pet of the Belmont wing; the latter accounts for Belmont personally arraigning Hendricks on the money question. There is no eastern candidate but McClellan, and his possibilities are not atKve the vice-presidency. The certainty of democratic success will make the next nomination hard to purchase. It was sold to Tilden before because it was not thought to be worth much. The presidency, as a sure thing, is not priceable; in a lottery it can be computed. There are $20,000.000 to be spent by the president and party every year, of which one-half is in their absolute control. Mr. Tilden would probably be as obnoxious to the cormorants of his party as Hayes has bren to the republicans. Tilden, besides, has shown an apparent disposition to treat with the uneasy and spleen-tortured Conkling, so that many th!nk that Tilden would be a part of Grantism. The business men, whose interests elect presidents observe one simple fact that will turn them against the republican candidate in 1880, that is a democratic senate and congress. They are too much in favor of short congresses and governmental concord to elect a president who would have constant opposition. Besides, there is cot a single respectable reason any longer against a democratic national victory. Both parties have the same general views and differences, ltepublican defeat would mean a final farewell to the evils of civil war and all its camp followers. It is the only path to political reorganization. Probably in four years we should see all the spoilsmen and impracticables of both parties acting together. Democratic success means progress, because 'a change.' llepublican success means no change, therefore no extrication. r- ! . Old Ajce. ' William Elaikie does not believe in the utter useltssness of old age. Talmerston foxhunting when past. 80; Vanderbilt, no youngster, without groom or companion, urging his-olooded trotters over Harlem lane at a slashing pace, Gladstone at 63 felling Hawarden trees by the hour, and for the benefit the exercise brings are but a few instances cr what old men can do when they try. None of these are more surprising than, in an intellectual field, the learning of German by Caleb Cashing after he had passed 70, 6r Thiers' activity at nearly 80, or, in all ways, than Moses's doing the 10 years' best work in his life after he had passed 80, and yet with eye not dim nor natural force abated. If some men, by oiling their joints daily for, as Maclaren says, "they are oiled every time . they are put in motion, and when they are put in motion only" can keep those joints from grating and creaking and moving stiffly, even into a ripe old age, why may not othef3 as well? And he hopes the day is not far off when no boy or girl will be sent to a school -where care is not taken to develop vigorous healthy bodies, and when that vigor and health will be the rule and not the exception among men and women al.ke, and in every walk of life. , Tbe Vatican Tapestries. I Pall Mall Gazettei It is said that Leo XIII. has given orders to have the large quantities of tapestry which no v lie hid in drawers and cupboards in the Vatican rumaged out, and hung in chronological order along the galleries, where they can be seen. There will be many interesting pieces among them; a quantity of Gobelins, as the French court for a long time made a present of a piece every year to the reigning pontiff; pieces of the Flemish schools of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; and several of those designed by Raphael, which were saved in the sack of l'me. It would be a good thing if the Italian government or court would follow the pope's example; for hidden away in cellars and back rooms of the I'itti palace, at Florence, there are known to be piles of old damasks and brocades, falling to pieces for want of, looking after and bringing to the light They can not be sold, though many artists at d others would gladly buy them, without .superior orders, and it is said that the only purpose they serve is to be torn up when dusters are required and nothing else Is handy. . - " , , , . The Beantlfal. . , Saturday Review. If a man dwells always as much as he can in the thought and presence of what is beautiful be cares less for brilliant effects and huge efforts of genius. The tcented flowers on a gray old wall, a clump of poplars "whispering to the plane trees," a river shallow where the kine stand in the cool water, all these sights are common in his life and give him from hour to hour as much pleasure almost i-s he is capable of enjoying. It needs a greater effort, unconscious as the effort may be, to live among the masterpieces of nature, the peaks that .bury themselves in mists, or glow like molfen steel in the splendors of an Alpine Bunset. Health Note. Statu tics prove that 23 per cent, of the deaths in our large cities are caused by consumption, and when we reliect that this terrible disease in its earlier stage will readily yield to a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup (costing 23 centa), shall we condemn the sufferei-s for their- negligence or pity then lor the J ignorance?

, DAVY CBOCKEIT. Toe History ef tbe Alamo. Cincinnati Enquirer Correfpondent. There being no Texan spared on that memorable Gth of March, the escaped being only three women and one or two colored men servants, the details of the dread con.tiict have been exceedingly varying, but your correspondent, learning that Mrs. Hanning was then the wife of one Captain Dickenson, an officer of some note, but has since remained and is liviDg in a beautiful suburban retreat, well provided for in the way of the world's goods. She is Tery llesby, exceedingly courteous and leceived the writer with cordiality, as she also did Frank Mayo a few days belore, the eminent actor desiring to learn something more about the original Crockett, and being eo far successful 'that it is reported his play vail be somewhat enlarged. But 13 years of age, and possessing a child 11 months old to look after, tbe fright of the young woman at such a slaughter as she witnessed may be imagined, notwithstanding which her recollections are vivid. And she says she has never yet seen a strictly correct account of the fall of the Alamo. The recollections of the streams of blood all but bring tears to the eyes of the soft hearted woman who relates the tale in a simple manner, though in Its plainness it can not be divested of its thrilling qualities. Captain Dickenson, her husband, had been . engaged in the battle of Co?, when the Mexicans had been routed Irom the Alamo, and received orders to form one cf the small garrisons under Travis that took possession of the fort. He first gained permission to visit his j'outhf nl wife, who agreed to accompany him into the fort, expecting him to be stationed there for some time; before entering, however, calling on her friends Mooskis, Mexicans, who resided on the main plaza. About three weeks had passed in . the fort before the entrance of Santa Anna into the town, and the raising of the black and red liag on tbe Mexican cathedral of San Fernandez, indicating no quarter would be shown in a contest The Texans saw the banner, but flinched not. The chivalrous Travis coolly drew a line, requesting all who would stand by him to step over,' a request all but one, without hesitation, complied with. He was permitted to take h's departure, but was shot by the enemy in so doing. A conference was asked for by Santa Anna on the following day, when a compromise was offered; but Travis, invigorated by the stanchness of his men and the expectation of reinforcements, defiantly said he would never surrender or retreat This was on February 27. From that on to the fall shots were exchanged at intervals Of about a half hour, a number of skirmishes also being held, though not a Texan was lost On the morning of the oth of March it , was discovered that one Mrs. Alsbnry, a Mexican, who had been placed in the fort by her husband for protection, had departed daring the night, why or how none could imagine; but the flaming torch accompany ing a bursting shell at daybreak on the following, day, Sunday, March 0, the martial music and the steady tread of the advancing wall of flesh told the story. She had betrayed them. Their weakness and expectation of reinforcements had been exposed, or so at least it is supposed, causing the scaling ladders to be distributed and the attack to be made. 'Twas then Bowie, whose name tells of his invention and his deed?, sick in bed, ordered a knife and a bayonet to be placed in his hands, and the band, now increased to one hundred and eighty warriors, Davy Crockett among them, besides the sick, felt able to sing: "Man o' the wall, oar clarion S blast , Now sounds its final reveille; This dawning morn must be the last our lated bund snail ever see To life, but not to hope, farewell! Yon trumpet's clang, and cannon's peal, . And storming shout, and clah of steel Is ours, but not our country's knell! $ 0 o We fall! We die! lint our expiring breath Is freedom's breath of lite!" The well directed artillery shots of the Texans told with dreadful effect upon the solid advancing column, but onward they pressed, scaled the walls, and in a hand to hand conflict slew the gunners. Then did the carnage begin. The finely carved old daors of the church were soon battered in, making the antagonists face to face. . Each hardy Texan had his score of Mexicans to contend with, while tho maimed in the convent or hospital were being shattered and torn asunder without protection. 'Xwas during this clash of arms, the shrieks of the dying, the shouts of the defiant, the fast forming pools of blood, this indescribable scene of terror, that lira. Dickenson was standing guardian over her infantile charge, supporting her weary 'body against a sofa which stood in an archway to the left of the altar, a witness of the entire carnage. Suddenly a gold-laced Mexican officer confronted her, and put the question, "Are you an American?" With only thoughts of her death, she gave no reply. Again he spqke: "In the name of God, speak quickly, if you are; the soldiers will be on you." Her name was revealed, and, to her consternation, with an uplifted sword to guard off the frenzied men who made numerous thrusts at her, she was hurried through the whirl of bullets, the clang of swords, over the mangled forms, on through the court to a carriage waiting at the entrance. Then she learned from her benefactor that he was Colonel Black, who had visited her friends Mooskis, by whom he was implored to save her. He had given his pledge, he had fulfilled his promise. The bloody massacre was soon completed; even the courageous Travis fell, and Crockett, surrounded by a circle of slain Mexicans, met the common fate. Santa Anna now entered upon the field, saw that his commands had been obeyed, and issued the final order, which eoon caused the torch to be applied to all that was left of the small band. From 'her place of refuge the rescued woman viewed the smoke of her, bnt few hours before, hale husband, now sandwiched in between layers of fast burning mosquitwood. He, like the others, had died the Spartan's death, and, "Well may the ruftians quake to tell How Travis and his hundred fell, Amid a thousand foemen slain." The widowed mother on the succeeding day received a call from General Santa Anna, a tall, slim, stoop shouldered, not overly dark Spaniard, with fierj' dark eyes. He expressed joy at her release, regret at the loss of her companion", and a desire to know what were her prospects; insisted upon sending her to Mexico under his care, or at least to be presented with the child. Defeated in both, he presently, through the Implorations of his nephew, presented her with $500 and departed, an action that probably saved his life, for, being captured in a private's dress at the succeeding battle of San Jacinto on the 21st of April, Mrs. Dickenson was called upon to recognize him, and, though she refused the proffered bribe of a gold snuff box, testified to his kindness, and bis life was spared, even though the only man at the Alamo, Wolf by name, who asked for quarter waa mercilessly cut down, though his plea was instigated by a desire to properly care for two youthful boys. Mrs. Hannig is now 57 years of age, hearty, and will probablystand the storms of life for several years yet. Curroy. For Consumption. Creosote has been found highly curative ia even advanced cases of consumption. M. M. Bouchard and Gimbert report having cured 27 per cent and improved 31 per cent, of their phthisical patients by using absolutely pure creosote combined with gentian alcohol and Malaga wine. ' The Cheapest. Iteliable articles like Dr. Price's special . flavoring extracts, vanilla, lemon, orange, ginger, etc., that have stood the test of the best judges in the country, are the cheapest in the long run, if health is to be considered.