Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1878 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24.

Was Morton salary grabber? It iaeo reported. Oin't tbe Journal tell? : ' Ihdiajc-a has suffered to the extent of $25,O00.000 by the niiical curse of contraction. Wh l the Journal reproduce a Tew of its edlterials -showing why Jeff Davis shouR take the southern states without; fight? Will the Journal reproduce its treasoaa'ble utterances, with regard to permit! ng Jeff Davis to walk away wiUu the southern states without a fight or a fot race? TnE Journal's last financial flop was the recommendation of Counterfeit morey instead of the genuine. It is good radical doctrine, bat the Journal 'oas possiHy been told by Harrison r Grertam- that At made an a9 of itself, aad that it must tease its advocacy C counterfeit money. Thk radicals have at'ltst found out 'that the $lf,00,000 eteal was all right. It is accounted for. The money was taken at a time of great need f rota a reserve '"fund, and scattered and paid out and accounted . for, etc Such an effort to cover up a steal ha seldom been made by the radical party, and the way" the apologists for steallcg attempt to whitewash the tmuaction is conclusive evidence of guilt. Thi Chicago Tribane comes to the rescue of Hayes for resnoving Conkllng's friends from office bj declaring that Arthur and Cornell are dishonest, and that Hayes wants to purify the service. The idea that Hsyes wants honest men in office, m view of the fact that he has appointed the most infernal villains that ever disgraced civilization to lucrative -offices, becomes preposterous. The Tribune will nd it difficult to descend to a lower level of partisan knavery than to attempt to persuade men that Hayes is honest. The Journal claims that under democratic rule the credit of the country got so low that Buchanan's secretary-of the treasury bad to pay 12 per cent, per annum for a loan of $10,000,000. About that time the Journal was playing into the hands of Jeff Davis and telling him to take the southern states and begone, they were not worth fighting for. But at any rate, the statement by the Journal is not half as bsd as that made by a distinguished Rhode Island radical when he reported to the house of representatives that for 13 years radical officials Lad stolen $100,000,000 annually. What .does the Journal think of that? Those who clamor for Grant for a third term think that he would improve upon his last administration wonderfully. The St. Louis Times is inclined to the opinion that there would be a chance for improvement, and says: But then it shouVl be remembered that the first term brought the aot of March H, 18w, making our currency bonds payable In gold, which swindled the people of the United Suites out of more tban S0UU,' Uu,0OO, fallowed by Bltu-k Friday, the credit niobiiier affair and other little peccadilloes. The fwcVnd term developed only the Indian ring fatalities, the whisky ring thieves, Belknap, Babcot-k and minor infamies. The second term was an Improvement upon the first. Doubtless a third terra would be an Improvement upon that. But the question naturally arises would It be possible to make it worse? The poor devils who work for the government can not escape, it seems, the partisan tax gatherer. "The salary list," says the New York Herald, "of the interior department has been surreptitiously furnished to 'Mr. Hale's committee, and a sum equal to 'one per cent, has been requested from every 'clerk. The responses to the first call not 'being as prompt as the managers desired, a 'second circular has been sent out and dis'tributed by the interior department clerks 'or messengers. The latter document is re'garded in the light of a threat, and the "clerks, we suppose, will come to the con'conclusion that they had better pay." And such is radicalism. . Beg i suing on the 25th of the present month an international woman's rights congress is to be held at Paris, and lest a preconceived idea of the work intended by the congress be formed it might be as well to state at once that woman's suffrage will be the least and last item of consideration. There are to be five sections of the congress: The first will consider "the elevation of women 'from subjection and inferiority;' the second, "the education of girls and hygienic 'laws pertaining to women ;" third, women's work and wages;" fourth, "the social evil;" fifth, "the civil, commercial and penal laws 'relating to women in all countries." Mrs. Julia Ward" Howe, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and Theodore Stanton are the ' representatives from the United States. The w.iy the radicals denounce Ben Butler is becoming amusing, though by no means surprising. "The other day," says an exchange, "he wanted Kellogg to tell him if 'there was one single man who had a hand 'in the Louisiana frauds by which Hayes 'was made president that had not been rewarded by a federal appointment, except ,the man who was given a number of profitab!e whisky cases to settle. Kellogg 'squirmed. He couldn't remember. Mr. 'Hiscock, the republican member, sprang to Kellogg's relief. Butler wrung the confe'sion out of the recalcitrant witness, and llk!0ck prated that it was calculated 'to ''thro rd'-oule On the chief magistrate of the nation.' Butler promptly replied: I 'want to deny any intention to throw ridi'cule upon the administration; but, if I am 'driven to it, I will say that I do not think anything I can do will make it more ridiculous than it has made jtaelf.' " Dan Voorhee-j has been doing that for a year. In the face of practical resumption he lias been howling that Jt can't bo done, and is going over the state haranguing to that effect now. Before the time for an election of United State senator It will be done, and yet lie expects to come forward fo the placo on the issue that it cant be done. News. Since 1372, failures in Indiana amount to 1,681, with liabilities aggregating I21.90G,. 702. Mr. Voorbees concludes to go over the tate "haranguing" the people; he will find in, every county men .who in 1872 ' -were In good circumstance, had a profitable business and good prospects for the future, J?ut who are now Cat broke, property gone,

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these people are asked, Why all this? nine outtrtten will reply, "The radical putty re'soPredupon resumption and contraction; 'failure and bankruptcy followed." . Practical resumption may have been achieved, but it does not let the Idle to work. It does not revive business: it does not restore confiA dence in trade. The resumption movement was in the Interest of the Sbylocks and against the welfare of the working people. This Mr. Voorkeea baa s-'iid in his place in the senate, and the country listened as it never ImmI done to any other man when iiscussiog tfee business situation. More f aach speeches from now fall October will do good in Indiana. ' Thk New York Tribune is jubilant over the idea that Hayes can use the army to overawe -states, -control elections, disperse legislatures and protect returning twaj-d scoundrels. It says: TUaot-N to the senate, the army bill as It paowed leaves the president ample kmt to enXurce the 1m ws by the aid or the army, when theyoan not be enforced by other means, and, if the ocewunn arise, we have no doubt that power will be freely and promptly exercised. The .preposterous fear of leaving the federal government at liberty to do something ia an emettocy mas oia as wasmngioa. Nw, if it is possible for Hayes to use the army as the Tribune desires, we see no reason why "the radical party may not perpetuate its power. What an average radical conspirator wants is "an emergency." Under rant emergencies were frequent, and in every -instance the ' people suffered in . the loss of liberty or property. As a general thing, a radical woald prefer 'an emergency" to steal than for anything else, though when defeated at the polls he hankers after "an emergency" that warrants forgery and perjury to reverse the will of the people. Hayes will find' few emergencies for calling out the army to run railroads, murder workiegmen, csrry on elections in louthern slates, or beat down state constitutions. The Tribune is huzzaing too soon. - The accounts of the frauds, thefts and scoundrelism generally which have distin guUhedthe administration of Indian agents are perfectly astounding, notwithstanding the people have , been made familiar with every conceivable form of rascality as practiced by the radical party. These Indian agents have robbed the Indians, robbed the government, robbed the frontier settlers, an J robbed the employes of the government. They have been in the business for years, and have doubtless divided with heads of departments a la Belknap, t is not presumable that the government was not cognizant 'f the thefts, embezzlements and forgeries and perjuries of its agents. The probabilities are that the rascals had been stealing upon shares under Grant, and now Hsyes desires to make changes, by virtue of which some lusty conspirators will have a chance to place their friends where they can steal themselves fat and rich, and at the same time pay a liberal per cent Into the radical corruption fund. Livingston began to steal as soon as Grant gave him an oppo--tunity, and has been stealing since 1870. The telegraph account says: The details show that they stole everything In six lit. and prostituted the whole agency machinery to their private use. Feeding ana civilizing the Indians was a secondary matter. The affidavit, false vouchers, forvt-d payrolls and ring letters laid before Commissioner lloyt prove that Livingston !:. in 1870, when tlmt appointed, feince then e has accumulated a fortune, a matter of iN-rd. Ueldes his large landed Interest, he is apart owner In three silver mines in Nevada. Livingston ana his "pants" owned two cattle ranches, with stock, rations, etc., regularly supplied from Crow creek and Cheyenne agencies. They were both seized by the government. They conducted a hot I, supplied regularly with beef, milk and potatoes Horn the agency, and forced their employes to board there. They used i lie agency blacksmith shop and material lor private gain. 'All their private B'-ock were fed at the government crib. Livingston sold agency wood to the steambouta and hay to the Black Hills wauon trains. Crow creek Is the stopping place on the Fort Pierre route to leadwood. Indian annuities and rations weie stolen and sold. Two steatnloat load of Indian goods for the lower lirule agency were unloaded at Crow creek, under the protest of the steamlKxit captain, who iuslsted that they belonged to Itrule. The Indians put up large quantities of hay and wood, and were paid in their own rations and annuities. The ring would charge the government for this hay and wood, and get paid tor then, and then sell the sme to the steamboats, military posts and bullwhackers. and get paid a second time. The crops raised on the agency were sold, and the proceeds not accounted for. The trader would sell the Indian his own potatoes. The trader's warehouse was inside of the stockade, and ten feet from a government warehouse. The former was stocked from the lutter. Of course all the stolen property was reported lssuTd to the Indians, whole bauds a dozen tlrres a year had their ration cut off for alleged- offenses, and tae rations not accounted for. There were rations and annuities 'drawn for 200 more Indians than there were on the agency. The money appropriated by congress during Livingston's administration for the manage ment of the agency and the employment and Incidentals amounted to f 170,000. lie stole all he could. Ills employes were all very Ignorant men .and any excuse for non-receipt of.wages was excepted. They were glad to get rations and clothing. The false vouchers, not nil diseovered, already number 150, ranging from SV) t-tl,500. One lalorer, whose name was Hooker, was freely used on fraudulent vouchers, was so badly frightened by the ring that he went Into a loft and shot himself through the heart. The Instances of perjuries are too nnmeruoi to mention. Livingston was an Kplscopallan appointment. He gave fonts and stained wliidows to the chapels. This is only a skeleton of the worst plundering ever made public In toe Indian service oat went. The forgery, perjury, and roblery continued over eight years, and turned In to the agent thousands of dollars. There are other chapters of this radical management of the Indians equally repulsive. It will be remembered that the democrats tried to get Indiana affairs out. of the hands of thieving radical agents, but this didn't suit a radical senate, and the impor' tant change was defeated. The conclusion is inevitable, that the radical senators know full well that the change proposed by the democrats would lead to the exposure of more rsdlcal thieves, and this, in view of thf investigations of the Totter committee, was not desirable. But the rascalities of the Indian agents are so overgrown that they can bs no longer obscured, and now, after eight years of stupendous villainies, a great hellabaloo is kicked up, as much as to say, "All this stealing has been going on un'known to the government." As a consequence, the old thieves will be removed and a fresh Eet put on tne trail of the Indians to steal and rob and lie as in the ' past, and when sufficient time has been given for all hands to get rich another discovery will be made, provided the radical party has control of the government, that stealing has been going on upon a largo scale. The way to get rid of this public stealing busines is to get rid of the radical thief party. As long as it Is In power thieves will be appointed to important offices and stealing everything in sight will be the rule. k

CONTRACTION THE NATION'S CTILSE.

That w are in, favor of making the United States notes, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender In payment of all debts, public and private, except ftucn obligations oniy as nre by the terms of tbv original contracts under which they were Issued, expressly payable in coin. That the rf-ht to Issue paper money as well asroin is Um exclusive prerogative of the government, and such mouey stiould be issued to such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may from time to time require. Ifremocratic platform. , . The position of the Indiana democracy upon the greenback and currency questions is clearly defined. The party, when last in council, took advantage of no subterfuges, skulked no responsibilities, cor did it seek to obscure ths issues of the campaign. On the contrtry, the language of the platform is bold and clear. Greenbacks should be made full legal tenders for all debts, public and private, and the government should is sue money in sufficient amounts to meet the sound business interests of the country. Now, we - submit, that the financial planks in the democratic platform are eminently wise and timely They are declarative of a remedy for business ills and a guarantee for future prosperity. "We have given the figures showing the total currency in circulation each year from 18C5 to 1877. the amount per capita, and the estimated population of the country each year. The rapid reductiion of the cur rency from 18U to 1873 was productive of universal stagnation in busfnets from which the country has never revived. From 1S'(5 to 180G the currency was increased $152,420,353, but from 1S0G .to 1873 contraction was rapid and fearfully disastrous. We will give our readers the figures showing the extent of contraction, and the number and amount of failures from 16G to 1877: c o u Years. 5 o s lHift-7.. lS7-8 s8-lKi-70... 1X70-1 t$2 2,197 2,411 S.ItiO 2,iiri 5,1X3 117,1X10,01 X) rt!,00,UIIU 67,OHO.tJUM w.ooo.oi-o 7,fmo,ooo 121,J.',0 0 22X,!,0iO laft.SQMMt 20.(Mi0,3 li 1U1,I17,3!1 l!W,!M,W 130,8 12,"3 &1Z.411.NHK 67,173,7X5 91,810 ,75i,405 1X71 1S72 1K73 1X7A 39,90,518 6.X20 7.740 8,h72 &.X25 1S75 187rt 1X77 1H7S (six III OS.). Totals , I,10!,5tS.471 SI,n:,474,4 13 It will be seen by the aoove figures how the grasp of contraction brought upon the country business and financial disasters that almost defy exaggeration. They extended to every section. They included every description of business except that engaged in by Sbylocks and money sharks, and even now, after contraction has spent its force upon the currency, itsdisastroob effects upon business has not ceased, .Failures multiply. The bankrupt court was never so' hard pushed to accommodate its patrons, who, from every department in business and every walk in life, rush into conrt, give up the struggle, confess that the "radical party and policy has destroyed them, and ask for an order of court to bury the attenuated remains of their estates in the busines?pottersfield. As a matter of supreme Importance legislation is demanded that shall advance the dignity of the greenback. If the government issues greenbacks the govern, ment should make them by its fiat receivable ai a full legal tender for all debts public and private. The difference between greenbacks and gold from the start has been in a great measure owing to the fact that the radical party would compel the people to accept what it itself dishonored, and this was" productive . of an irrepressible conflict which democrats would long since have terminated if they had had the power. We have shown m the above figures how failures and bankruptcy fol lowed contraction, giving sum totals as follows: Contraction from I860 to 177, $1,109,355,471; failures from 1800 to 1878, 6.092, with liabilities amounting to $1,C39,474,443. But this amount of losses by failures represents but a fraction of losses sustained by business throughout the country. The democratic party in view of these failures and loss, he prostration of bu.siness.'the idleness, poverty, hunger and starvation throughout the country, attributable in a large measure to the radical policy of contraction, demand that the government shall issue currency from time to time in amounts demanded by the sound business interests of the country. The demand is wise. It is universally indorsed by the people. It will win in October. THE RAILROAD INTEREST. The total number miles of railroads constructed in the United States at the close of 1X77 was 7U,20X, against 70,311 miles at Hie close of 1S73, and 4i,K miles at the close of lxtft. In addition to the 7.2ux miles of track, there weie 18,0!tt miles of second track or siding. The number ot locomotives is 15,911: passenger ram, 12,053; mall and express car, 3,biA; and of freight cais, 3!)2,17. The Indebtedness of the railroad companies of the United (States is thus stated: Capital stock................ ..f2.3 13,278 ,5! iH Kuuded debt....- ........- -J.2V,:mK.V) Other debt 237,604,774 Total debt.. ,.40,202,O'J2 The total cost of these railroads and equip ments is put down at IU80;)1,77. Gross earnings, 1877- , ...472,fl0972 30l,a-J27a Operating exjienses Net earningsMMMM........M.....n..fl70,ll76,(!!i7 Paid for lnterett........................... tfrt,X'J0,UJ7 Dividends on Mock... ....................... 5xottil2 The total amount of capital stock on which dividends were actually paid was 835,U8,8t, or an average of 7 per cent, on that amount. On l,4783S,702 of capital stock no dividends were paid. So dividends were paid on any railroads in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kaunas. Louisiana. Mississippi. Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas and Vermont, and only on leased lines In Iowa and Minnesota. The average rate of interest paid on the whole bonded indebtedness was 4.39 per cent. Chicago Tribune. We are told every day" of our lives by some radical conspirator or tome organ of the radical party that resumption is practically accomplished, and that busines is reviving throughout the country. The above statement, relating to the railroad interests of the country, we credit to the Tribune, but the figures are taken by that paper from Toor'a Manual, the highest railroad authority in the country. It will be observed that the total indebtedness of railroads in the United Stata is $4,806,20'-!,022, and the cost is placed at $4,180,191,727, showing an indebtedness above cost amounting to $G2G,0l0,295Hera it will be observed that one of the great interests of the country, intimately identified with the business interest of the country and the development of Its vast resources, ij hopelessly insolvent, and will fee,

Compelled to yield to the Inevitable and

pass into the-' hands of the bondholders. It is said by those ; w,no 1 vn11 tn enm itiMonm r.Hwnri the aa 1 vv VUiU it cvtuv auuiiut w v - via. , causes for railroad Indebtedness th&t too many roads have been built for thq business demands, and that the competition of water transportation was not properly taken into account when the roads were projected. But the fact is railroads have suffered from the penerel stagnation of busiaers brought about by the radical financial policy, which his upon resumption as the panacea for all business ilia, but which filled the country with business calamities, from which railroads have not been exempt. Manifestly the managers of a good many railroads have acted unwisely by attempting to earn dividends upon watered Block, and so far as they have accomplished their purpose have been the enemies of their own interests, for it has compelled thera to place the rates of transportation too high as compared with anything else, and has had the effect to lessen rather than promote the freight business of the road. To those who have taken a iust pride in the growth of the railroad interests of the country the showing we publish is not calculated to restore confidence in the immediate future of railroading. With the radical party out of power, with no more John Shcrmanisra in the financial affairs of the country, and with the democratic party at the head of governmental affairs, we may hope for a wholesome reac tion in railroading as in every other department of busine?s. Cl'RItEXCY,CONTRACTION AXI KCIN. From the close of the war to 1S73 the condition of business in the United States was one of remarkable activity and prosperity. The industries of the country were in active operation, working people were employed at good wages, people were well fed and well clothed. The labor markets were not overtaxed with laborers,over production was not talked of, tramps were not in all the highways of the country, and the outlook was most checriDg. All this was suddenly changed. The radical financial policy, when finally its fangs were fairly fixed in the business affairs . of the country. was productive of widespread disasters. The Chicagft Times, la an article captioned "ureenDacks and Cheese," endeavors to show that no more money is re quired for tlie transaction of business, since from 1872 to 1875 there has been no contraction of the paper currency, but on the contrary, says tne limes ."there was an ex pansion, as will appear from the following 'statement taken from the last report of the 'comptroller of the currency, and showing 'the total amount of legal tenders, fractional 'currency, old demand notes, and national 'bank notes outstanding at the dates named: January 1, 1872. $72fi,8C6.109 January 1, lx73..... 74S,7,lb7 January 1, 1871 777,874,367 January 1, 1875 782,691,185 The trouble with the Times and kindred sheets is that they do not hesitate to bolster up their assertions by figures which mislead the public mind. The Times does not state correctly the amount of outstanding cur rency for the years mentioned, nor does it show the amount held out of circulation for reserves, elc, which very materially affects the statement But it is not our purpose so much to show what has taken place in currency matters since 1873 as from 1865 to 1873, the period of business activity. The figures required to demonstrate the absolute truthfulness of the charge that the radical party is responsible for the business depres sion we find in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Here tbey are: . Amount per enpita, 147 4i Year. Currency. tl,(Vli'82,373 . 1,81 13,702,7.6 . I0,4l4,r77 , 8l7,li!l,773 Population. 84,81.1 3.VW7.148 87 ,(),! 1H 37.77!),(Xl 8..Vi8,371 3M,7"iO,073 7X,07 42.21o.110 43, -i.TO,7d 44, XHd,70f 46,284.141 47 711 82 ix'... l.W., 60 7(5 Mi M 22 UK 19 85 19 19 18 47 17 97 17 48 Ii7 . lXtiX INiit 1X70 18717d0,iri).iisj 740,0;!.179 734,244,774 73ti.31!l,i12 7X3,291, 74'J 779,031,5X9 778.17'i0 73S,S5x,x:a (KM 443 ! 1X72.. 187a.. 17 89 17 3 15 89 11 to The currency Included In the above amounts comprises demand and one and two year treanury note authorised by the acts of I)ecemoer z. ij: uecemoeriz. isei. una -March 2, ixtil ; temporary ten days loans and one year certificates of indebtedness; treasury notes payable In two years and in sixty days; seven thirty three year notes; compound interest notes; three per cent. certificates; non-interest o-aring uemana ana legal tender notes; frac tlonul currency; state bank notes, and na tional bank notes. The bulk of these Issues wero mnde legal tender oy the government, but that character istlc was not indispensable to constitute tbem parts of he money volume; ;for, was that necessary, then state bank and national bank issues could not be counted as part of the cur rency, these never having been made legal tenners, We are prepared to prove, however, that all the above issues were employed as currency, and went to make up the vol u mo of circulat ing medluM. The 7-o0 three year notes whose circulation as currency is most scouted were outstanding on the 1st of September, 185, to the amount of X30,)0,00'), every dollar of wiiich was legal tender for its face value under tha terms of the law "to the same extent as UniUd btetes notes." W'fi have not the space or time to dwell ujon this part of the question, but we again state that these notes were employed as currency, as csn be proved by the very highest authority. Here it will be seen that the contraction of the currency from 18W5 to 1873 amounted to $1,005,510,97. In 18G0 the population was estimated at 35,537,148, and the currency per capita $50.76. In 1S73 the population was estimated at 42,245,110, and the currency per capita at $17.48. As we have shown, the contraction of the ' currency from 1865 to 1873 laid the foundation for the business disasters that have since followed in rapid succession and continuously from 1873 to the present hour. The contrac. tion of the currency from 1873 to 1877 is shown to be $11,848,355, and from $17.48 per capita to $14.00 per capita. This contraction of the currency from 1SG5 to 1877 was productive of shrinkage of values, and this shrinkage produced failnresand bankruptcy, idleness, poverty, hunger, starvation and crime. The radical party Is responsible for this entire brood of curses that have followed in the wake of its policy. It legislates for Sbylocks, aud while making the money sharks richer it impoverished the workicg people of the country, millions of whom today do not know how they are to obtain a square meal. With this contraction we have practically reached resumption, but it has been at a terrible tacnfica of business. Industries have ceased to exist, thousands of business firms have gone down tinder the pressure, and millions of people who had work and 'were supporting their families have been reduced to beggars. Such is radicalism. A greater curse is almost beyond the vengeance, of ehgyali.

TOE C.A.MPAIGS. " ' - The condition of fie radical party ij most deplorable. , Such papers as the New York

nmes see distinctly mat me party is doomed, and are preparing for the event of its being overthrown, knowing very well that soldiers and returning boards will not again work -together to reverse the will of the people, and that John Sherman will not again be permitted to barter federal offices for perjuries that a fraud may occupy the office of president. .While the Times declares that the radical party has terrible loads to carry, it professes to see that the democratic party- lacks solidity, and Is in danger of going to pieces. The democratic party was never more united than at present. There are no disintegrating influences at work upon it. "With regard to radicalism the Times is in a position to speak knowingly. The Isew York Kipress, m commenting upon the Times' diagnosis, says: The radical party Is disintegrating. It is hoptlesslv demoralized. Its original stock of "moral ideas" is gono. Its principles have become obsolete. Its character has rotted away. There Is nothing left but the shell of an organization with a name. And tne men inside o it who are trying to get control of it are quarreling among themselves like so many pirates. To hate each other like two republicans has become a byword, lonkling and Mayes are at each others throats. Blaine would tear the eyes out of Carl Sch lira. Three-qnartersof the party leaders despise Llvarts. bill Chandler is snubbed by one-half of the party, and Zacb Chandler would be kicked iuto the basement of the next world by the other half If they naa tne ower to io so. it is so an over the country. Butler is despised In 'Massachusetts as Iwidly as lUbeson Is in 2ew Jersey, and the contest for the senatorship in this state letween Coakling and Morgan is repeated in Illinois between Logan and OsdfRby. Not only has the party lost the cement of a great cohesive principle, as Wendell Phillips truly says, but Its component elements are ,at war with each, and lis leaders are full cf jealousy and spite and ambition and are trying to pull each other down and eat ech other up. The Times fails to U ll but half the truth, prooably be can we It is so unused to dealing in that article. But it throws the principal part of the blame for the demoralized condition of the party on Hayes. It matters not that, Hayes "meanswell, it .vs. It remembers that the streets of hell,accord in g to the Spanish proverb, are paved with good inteutlons. "A weak president is one of the worst presidents," it says, with a tersenesn almost epigrammatic. It forgets to add that when a weak president is also fraudulent he becomes a burden and an offense. When a weak president is paralyzed by the suspicion that he bought his oriice by promising federal appointments to the rascals who heled to count him in, and has been stuffing these creatures into office ever since his inauguration, be become a disintegrating force In the party and a stench In the nostrils of all honest men. The Times very truly remarks that "the infirmities ot the president and the wiles ol his secretary of the treasury are a perpetual source of party embarrassment. They excite ridicule at the expense of principle, and they give rise to plans lu which the humiliation of the dminlstr tion will le linked with the saeces of the persons and schemes it hass'rlven tocrnnh." This is the exact truth. "The wiles ot John Sherman" are doing the business. And when the coroner's inquest is held over the lifeless remains of a once great party, the jury wUl report the verdict "died of John Sherman on the brain." The financial policy pursued by the radical party has had much to do with its Infamous record and present dilapidated condition, but there are other reasons why the American people deplore the existence of such a party. It is distinguished for stealing. It will live in history as the only political party that was ever organized and held together by considerations of public plunder. It is the only party in this or in any other country that has been able to steal itself rich and perpetuate its power by perjury. It has had its day. The people are tired of its rule, and henceforth radicalism will take its place among the monstrosities the world has produced, and it3 chief actors, having achieved an immortality of Infamy and earned a right to conspicuous places in the rogues' gallery of the world, will be dismissed from further participation in public affairs. " Pkovidencr Is on the side of resumption this year. Great wheat and corn crops mean more money In the packets of the people. The inflationists should Invoke a drought and the consuming grasshopper. Cincinnati Commercial. Providence has been on the side of the people aud against the radical party from the first. There have been for the pa&t ten years great wheat and corn crops, but business has steadily gone from bad to worse under radical rule. Contraction has made resumption possible, but resumption accomplished by conUaction has been the most fearful curse that was ever visited upon the country. From the first democrats recognized the fact that by contracting the currency resumption was pojsible, and resumption has been opposed because it could only be brought about at the time specified, by destroying the business of the county, and by impoverishing the men who, hariDg invested their money in enterprises that employed labor, could not be struck down without creating a national calamity. The Shylock policy has been maintained sgainf t the will of the people, and how when John Sherman talks of resumption the rads throw up their hats as if some great good had been accomplished. Tbe resumption lolicy has produced a shrinkage of values throughout the country .aggregating not less tban $12,000,000,000. It ha3 caused the failure of about 60,000 business firms, whose liabilities amount to -about $1,750,000,000. It has thrown some four or five million people out of employment, and filled the land with poverty. It would have been wise to have listened to democrats. The contractien would have been arrested, industrial institutions would hsve been kept going, and the people would have had work and wages. Resumption, under the circumstances, is not a matter for rejoicingrERSOMALITIEM. John C Fremont will not begin to govern until August. Congressman Walsh is seriously ill at his Maryland home. Baked coon is said to be a favori te dish with the II 311. Alex. II. Stephens. Jeff Davis brother, Reuben Davis, is a candidate for congrt as in Mississippi. Schuyler Colf ix smilingly declines to become the greenback candidate for congress in his district. A brother of Boss Sheppard has been appointed one of tbe sanitary inspectors ot the city of Washington. Chace, the Fall river defaulter, is scullery man in tbe state pnson kitchen, and spends his days peeling and quartering potatoes. - Judge Drummond," of the United States circuit court, Soventh circuit, has gone to Europe to obtain rest and recruit his failing health. The United Htates assistant treasurer, at Philadelphia, in reducing his force, has dismissed the widow of Colonel - Vanleer, union officer killed in the war, and retained Miss. hett, daughter of a rebel general,

This discrimination has naturally occasioned much indignation. The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald eaya: "Mr.

Davis' Mississippi City speech is an outspoken; flat-footed, unnnstable, unnecessary and unwise secession speech." Senator Conkling, on account of a press professional and other engagements, has been compelled to decline all invitations to address agricultural societies thi? fall. The Hon. Julian Hart ridge has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election t) congress from the First district of Georgia. Two colonels and a judge are competitors for the democratic nomination, General Marcus J. Wright, of Memphis, who was confederate post commander at Macon during the latter yearj of the war, has been appointed by the tccretsry of war as agent for the collection of confederate records for the use of tbe government. Governor Van Zandt, Senators Anthony and Burnside and ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, certainly, and perhaps President Hayes, will attend the third annual excursion of that useful and necessary association known as the shoe and leather fraternity of Providence, August 15. Absolutely latest item about Lord B?aconsfield at Berlin: Seeing a poor devil picking np cigar ends to supply himself with tobacco, the earl gave him a gold piece with which to buy something belter. But tbe man had a narrow escape, for the ever-vigilant police arrested him for begging, and were loth to release him. Cambridge Tribune: Judge Hoi man emphatically declines to be a candidate for congress in this district. Whether the democrats will make a nomination at all is a question of much doubt. We are ot the opinion that they will not, and that the democratic voters of this district will submit stoically to the re-election of General Browne. Ex-Congressman Tarbox stands up find is tapped by the Boston Herald. Though the democratic party in Massachusetts will not behead itself, -he thinks, by making no nomination at all, yet bold Ben Butler can not become the nominee. If the great cockeyed statesman would sell his high priced yacht and sail in a dugout he would euit the nationals better. The president, General Sherman and several members of. the cabinet will-leave Washington at 7:15 p. m. next Friday for Newark, Ohio, to attend the soldiers' reunion to be held there. From Newark the party will visit Mr. Hayes' home at Fremont. The parlor car, Maryland, belonging to President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio railway company, will be used by the presidential party. General Garfield goes about bis farm in a broad-brimmed chipped hat, with his trousers tuck in a pair of stout cowhide boots, giving directions to his hired men, and lending a hand at the haying and harvesting. None of his Washington friends, should they see him driving a yoke of oxen in the broiling sun and emphasizing with a gad the stentorian shouts of "Gee," "Haw," and "Whoa, Buck!" without which nooxen seem able to do a proper amount of work, would have suspected that the broad-shouldered, sun-burned farmer under the chip hat was the famous republican chief, fresh from parliamentary victories on the floor of congressTOING SlIERJfAli'S CHOICE. lie Become m Prleat Wit bout Ilia Father's Content, and Mncn to That Cen tleman'a Grief and Disappointment. The St Louis Republican publishes the following letter, which was written to a gentleman of that city by General Shermyn'a son: No. 812 Garrisox Avenue, St. Louis, Mo , June 1, lS7t. The Hon. Samuel Rft.er, My Dear Sir I sail on Wednesday, the oth instant, from New York for Liverpool, on the steamer tscythia of the Cunard line, and as the purpose of my voyage has relation to the wuole future course of my life, I desire that you, as a triend and kinsman of tfee family, should know definitely and expliclty what that purpose is. You are aware, my dear sir, that I graduated a few weeks ago at the law school of the Washington university In this city. You know, too, that inj- father has given me a complete education for the bar. having sfntnieto Georgetown college to make my classlct'and matheraatics.then to the scientific ' school at Yale for a foundation in natural sciences and modern languages, and Anally to our St. Louis law school, where 1 hsve attended the full course of lectures during tbe past two years under the kind Instruction of yourself and our other learned professors. For some time past I have had a strong leaning for the ministry, and so haviug now reached the age when every man has to choose his own career in life, and having weighed tliU important matter of a choice with all the care and deliberation ef which I4 am capable, I have decided to become a Catholic priest. How long ago I reached this decision, what means I have taken to test and confirm myself in my resolution, and wny, having finally decided, I now choose to go to England to make part of my dreparatlon for the priesthood, are inquiries which are of no interest to any one but myself, and to answer them would be apart from the object of this lettler. I write to inform you and to beg you to communicate the information to thostt who may Inquire concerning me that I assume to myself the whole responsibility of my, choice, as with me alone rested the duty of the burden of choosing a path m lite; so with me alone rests the blame or praise of having chosen the church instead of the law. My father, as you know, is not a Catholic, and, therefore, the step I am taking seems as startling and as strange to him as I have, no douht, it does to you, my dear sir. I eo with, out his approval, sanction, or consent, in fact, in direct opposition to cis best wishes in my behalf. For he had formed other plans tor aie, which are now deteated, and had other hopes and expectations in my regard 4 which are necessarily datdied to the ground. In conclusion, my dear sir, I have one request to make, and I make) it not only to you, but to all our friends and relations to whom you may see fit to sh )w this letter or communicate its contents; it Is this: FeeUns painfully aware that I have grieved and disappointed my father, 1 beg my friends and his, oue and all, of whatever religion they may be, to spare him Inquiries or commenU of any sort, for I can not help feeling that anything ot tbe kind would be ill timed and inappropriate. Trusting to your delicacy and to theirs to appreciate my motive in this and to comply with a request so easll v fain lied, I re main with great respect, affectionately and ' sincerely yours, Thomas Ewino Sherman. An Interesting Point In Harder Trials. Philadelphia Record.J Considerable discussion has been excited by the expressed determination of Prosecutor Jenkins to convict and hang Graham, the accomplice of Hunter. Legal history has been searched for similar cases, and it is found that Lord Mansfield, in 1775, had before him an offender named Rudd, whom the crown sought to convict after he bad been used as a witness against his associates. An application was made to stay farther proceedings sgiicst Rudd, and Lord Mansfield granted it, observing "that if an accomplice made a full and fair confession of the whole truth, and in consequence thereof is admitted as a witness for the crown, and his evidence is made use of to convict other offenders, he has an equitable recommendation to the king's mercy." An Illinois mail robber named Lee was used as a witness for the government against an accomplice named Warner, and Justice McLean decided that he should not be prosecuted. In 1877 there was a murder at Elwood, on the Camden and Atlantic railroad, in which three men participated. One of them confessed, and was used as a witness against his accomplices. He was rewarded by being given a lease of life in the penitentiary, while his associates were hung.-