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THE ELECTIONS.

The Democrats Mate a Brare Fight in Ohio. . They Are Victorious in the Majority of the Cities and Towns. Cincinnati in Doubt As to Mayor and Other City Officers. "... The Vote the Largest Since the Presidential Campaign. The Bepublicans, as Usual, Claim Everything, Eat Get Eat Little. Fall Betnm from Michigan Shew Tbat the Republicans My Get an Officer or Two. YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS. THE DOINGS OF THE DAY IS MICHIGAN. Detroit, April 7. Weather clear and pleasant. The election in the city and throughout the State Is quiet and orderly. John Logan Chiitaan is elected judge of the superior court of this city by a plurality of 1,411 and a majority of 46 over both Republican and National candidates. Returns front the interior come in slowly. Sixty-two towns have been heard from, and give Campbell, Republican, for justice of the supreme court, 1,717; Grosvenor, Republican, for regent, 1,171, and Shearer, .Republican, for regent, 1,101 majority. Deteoit, April 7. Returns from 160 towns, including Detroit, with a Democratic majority ot over 1,300, gave. Campbell, Republican, for supreme court 719; Grosvenor, Republican, for regent, 319, and Shearer, Republican, for regent, 472 majority. The majority on the Republican State ticket is estimated at from 5,000 to 10,000 over the Democrat and Greenback coalition ticket. At Grand Rapids the Citizens' ticket, com posed of hard money Republicans and Democrats, was elected. - At Lansing the Republicans elect their entire city ticket. At Jackson the Democrats elect a mayor; the Republicans the balance of the city ticket. At East Saginaw the Republicans elect the mayor, and the balance of the ticket is mixed. At Adrian tbe Republicans elect the mayor. At Muskegon the Republicans elect the mayor, and the Democrats the balance of the City ticket. At Port Huron the coalition elect the entire city ticket. At Bay City the Republicans elect the mayor, and tbe Democrats and Nationals divide the balance of the city ticket between them. KETt'RXa FROM ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTYNINE TOWNS. Detroit, April 7. Returns from 138 towns in Michigan give Campbell, Republican, for Justice of the supreme court, 1,372; Grosvenor, Republican, for university regent, 1,213, and Shearer, Republican, for regent, 1,302 majority CINCINNATI IN DOUBT BOTH PARTIES CLAIM THE DAY, Cincinnati, April 7. The weather wag very disagreeable this forenoon, and rather a light rote has been polled. The afternoon promises to be fine and it is net unlikely that a heavy vote will be polled before 8 o'clock. Everything is proceeding quietly, and there is no indication as yet which party has the I advantage. I Returns at this hour (11:30) are not sufficient to base an opinion as to the result. A heavy vote was polled. " The Democrats who, during the day and the early part of the evening, were confident of the election of theirentire ticket, consider the result doubtful. 1 a. m. The Republicans now claim the election of Jacob for mayor over Harris by 1,000 majority. The vote polled is unusually heavy,. and equal to that cast at the last presidential " .election. The Republicans also claim the election of the entire city ticket, with the possible exception of police judge. "m 1:15 a. m. Jacob, Republican, Is elected mayor beyond a doubt. The majority will De 1,000 to 1,500. ' COLUMBUS GOES REPUBLICAN. Columbus, O., April 7. Sufficient returns are in to demonstrate that the Republicans have swept the city and elected G.-G. Collins mayor by anywhere from 600 to 1,200 majority, and all of the balance of the ticket by similar figures. They have also elected sufficient members to make the City Council Republican by five majority. This la tbe first time since the organization of the party that the Republicans have elected their candidate for mayor since 1858. THE NATIONALS CARRY TOLEDO. Toledo, O., April 7. The city election to-day was quiet and orderly, and with fine weather a very full vote was polled. Returns from all but one " ward - indicate ' the election of the entire National ticket, with the possible exception of police judge, by 40o to 500 majority. The Board of Aldermen stands 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats for 4 Nationals. The National ticket was headed by Jacob Romes for mayor. The vote of that party shows about the same strength as at last fall's .election. - TUB DEMOCRATS CARRY AKRON. 7 Akron, O., April 7. The entire Democratic -city ticket is elected with the exception of . street commissioner. ' ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. Paikksville, O., April 7. The Deinociats elect two out of three councilmen. BOW II WENT. Warren, O.i April 7. The Republicans city ticket Is elected. - THE DEMOCRATS AHEAD. -Copncii. Bluffs, Iowa, April 7. The mu ,n lei pal election to-day resulted in a draw The Republicans elected the marshal and treasurer and the Democrats the mayor, re .corderand assessor and three of tbe aidermen. THE MAYOR OF SANDUSKY A DEMOCRAT Sandusky, O., April 7. The Democrats elect nin mavor by over 600 majority. The Council is a tie. The school board is Republl- - can. the marshal and commissioner Republl' can. and the solicitor la probably Republican. The Democrats are Jubilant over the election -of Rush R.81oane. THE FULL RETURNS WHAT THE REPUBLICANS DID. , Columbus, O., April 7. Full returns from all the wards of the city show that Collins, Republican, has been elected mayor by 1,700 majority, and all the other candidates, except

cemetery trustees, against whom there was no opposition, by large majorities. DEMOCRATIC MAYORS. Tremont, O., April 7. The Democrats elect the mayors of Geneva, Ravenna and Elyrla Republican advices from the smaller towns on this reserve show Republican victories. THE KEPUBLICNS CABBY THE SAY. Keokuk, la, April 7. The entire Republican ticket Is elected with the exception of one Greenback alderman. Two other Greenbackera were elected in wards where the Republicans made no nominations. The vote waa unusually large. . THE LAURELS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. Hartford, April 7. In the municipal election to-day the Republicans elected the city auditor and marshal by an average plurality of 300, and the Democrats the city clerk and treasurer by an average plurality of 170. The Republicans retain control of the Common Council. Arrest of a Counterfeiter. Little Rock, April ".Marshal Faulkenberry brought In Lafayette Galeio, a counterfeiter of Newport, Saturday night, together with a furnace, mould, and a considerable lot of spurious coin. After examination, Commissioner Goodrich committed him in default o bail. Heavy Failure. Louisville, Ky., April 7. Robert Dunlop & Co., tobacco manufacturers, have filed papers of assignment. The embarrassment is said to have been caused by the failure of George Campbell, or Liverpool. Dunlop's principal business was done in England and Australia.

FOREIGN NEWS. ITALY. ARRIVAL OF GARIBALDI. Rome, April 7. General Garibaldi, on arrlv? ing here, was greatly fatigued. He was carried on a couch to the residence of his sonj Menotti. The king sent his aide-de-camp to Visit him. A more pathetic scene than that on Gari baldi's arrival at the railway station has sel dom been beheld. Shouts, raised as the train entered the station, were speedily silenced Iy circulation of the report that the general was ill. He was conveyed from the train on a mattress placed on a large litter. He lay ex tended and motionless, with.hls eyes closed, and a red handerchlef bound around his head. It looked as though a corpse was being carried in state. It was found Impossible to move him from the litter, which was placed on an open carriage, and driven, accompanied by a mournfully silent crowd, to the house of his son, Menotti Garibaldi. It was Impossible to move the general at Civlta Vecchia, and the side of the railway saloon was cut to admit the litter. The general slept well, however, Satur day night, aud the doctor thinks he will leave his bed within a week. Friends assert that politics are wholly unconnected with his com ing here. He found that his health was not Improving at Caprera, and thought the miner al springs near Civlta Vecchia might benefit his gout. Garibaldi, replying to Syndic, who visited him on his arrival, said he did not himself know the reason of his visit. Home say Garibaldi came to Rome to die. A LETTER FROM THE CARDINAL VICAR. Rome, April 7. A letter from the cardinal vicar is published, complaining bitterly of the existence In Rome of Protestant schools, sup ported chiefly by foreign money. It announces that the pope has appointed a vigilance com mittee to increase and improve Catholic schools, and appeals to the nobility and clergy to subscribe for their support. GREAT BRITAIN. THE ACTION OF TROOPS. London, April 7. Lord Chelmsford teleomnha that the relieving column for Ekow would start about the 2Sth of March. Colonel Pearson has established communication with Tugela, which is run by means of signals, . . .... . - , ON A STRIKE. London, April 7- The decision of two-thirds of the pitmen at Durham, to strike against a reduction of woges, will have the effect of stopping nearly 90 pits, throwing idle 25,000 hewers. Several large concerns will be brought to a stand still in course of a week unless the owners or pitmen give way. ' IN FAVOR OF MIXTD OCCUPATION. London, April 7. A Constantinople dispatch states that the Porte has agreed to accept the mixed occupation scheme, on condition that the great powers give effect immediately to the constitution proposed by the international commission for Eastern Roumelia. There is reason to believe the Porte's opposition to the mixed occupation, in the first instance, was due to the advice of Tournler, the French am bassador, who has since gone home on a furlough; and It has been arranged that the am bassadors of the Powers shall In concert with the Porte settle all questions of detail relative to the occupation. It is considered probable that the Russians will remain In Eastern Roumelia until actually replaced by foreign contingents. ' EGYPT. THE KHEDIVE HAS THINGS HIS OWN WAY. Cairo, April 7. Tne khedive, without con sulting his ministers, has drafted a budget in opposition to that submitted by Minister Riv ers. Seventy pashas and 00 civil officers have signed this document, which pledges the Government to henceforth pay interest on the funded debt in fall punctually. TURKEY. ' A HITCH IN THE NESOTIATIONS. Constantinople, April 7. There seems to be a hitch in the negotiations for the mixed occupation of Eastern Roumelia. The princi pal Russian member of tbe commission has been summoned to St. Petersburg to give an explanation. - j GERMANY.' ' , A CHANGE TALKED OF. Berlin, April 7. it Is stated that Sabouroff, the Russian minister at Athens, will succeed Count Schouvaloff at London. Count Schouvaloff will reside at St. Petersburg, but will not immediately take office. SPAIN. WHAT ENGLAND ASKS. Madrid, April 7. The Universal Gazette States that England asked the arrangement of tbe new maritime zone for Gibraltar. The Gazette strongly advises the Government to absolutely refuse this concession. FRANCE. , THE ELECTION FOR DEPUTIES. Paris, April 7. Complete returns of the 21 supplementary elections for deputies, show 13 Republicans and one Legitimist elected. In seven districts additional ballots will be neces sary.

SENTINEL SPECIALS.

Suicide of a Lady Living Near Elkhart. An Exciting Walking Match at Tus cola, Illinois.. Evansville Captured by the Republicans Yesterday. Over One Thousand Imrjorted Kegro Voters. New Albany Keeps up Her -Reputation for All Kinds of Sensations. Other News from Sentinel Correspond ent. NEW ALBANY. Insane From Religion A Brutal Father Punished Free Fight Temperance Politico Religion A Fortune Runaway Lovers. Special to the Sentinel: New Albany, April 7. Thomas M. Brown, reputable citizen of Greenville township, this county, was adjudged a lunatic to day, and ordered to the Insane Asylum. Cause, re ligious excitement. James Perkins, the brutal father who yes terday so cruelly beat, and then attempted to drown his little three-year-old step-child, was fined, with costs, S32 in the city court to day, for assault and battery. He will be put through the magistrate's court on the same charge, and then the grand jury will go through him on a charge of attempted murder. The brute was drunk. At LanesviUe, Harrison ccunty, yesterday, two men, John Eudris and Hess, engaged In a royal old-time fight, causing quite a commo tion lirthat usually qu et town. Both were considerably battered. The work of organizing the children of the city into Percy Bands of Hope, in the tem perance cause, -was commenced to-day by Stephen R. Smith, an old newspaper man. who has been very successful elsewhere in this work. It Is stated that a public meeting of citizens, regardless of party, will be held at an early day to select out of all the parties, candi dates for the city offices. The great revival in the Christian church at Salem, conducted by Elder Dale, of this city, losed last night. There was a number of ac cessions to the church. Mrs. John W. Relnlklng, ol this city, has received notice that she ha? inherited S20,000 by the death of an uncle in New York City. William Smyser and Mary Wells, a runaway couple from Edlnburg, were married in this city to-day. Mr. George Godfrey to day commenced the eighteenth year of his engagement as operator . in this city for the Western Union Telegraph company, and is as popular as the day he took barge. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. The Board of Trade Death of a Noted Steamboat Builder Republican State Con ventiou Failure The School Board PresidencyReformed Episcopal Church Trou blesGeneral Items. Special to the Sentinel: LoriaviLLE, April 7. All the Interests or the city are so combined and solidified In the movement for a board of trade as to assure ! one among the strongest organization of tbe kind in the country. It is probable a building, wal be purchased or erected specially for its nses, and permanency and stability be thus secured. A meeting of the canvassing com mittee is being held to-night. The death of William T. Gordon, of this. city, removes from life another of the pioneer steamboatmen of the Western rivers. Mr. Gordon was a noted stetraboat builder of the olden times, and built the second boat that ever run in the mall line between Louisville and Cincinnati, and was for many years the most prominent boat builder in the West. His remains were taken to Cincinnati for lntnent, this afternoon. The Republican State convention of Ken tucky assembles in this city on Thursday . next. . Robert Dunlop, a prominent leaf tobacco dealer of this city, has made an. assignment. Liabilities, U5.591; assets, $,405. In the common pleas court to-day, in the case of H.C.Lloyd vs. Thomas H. Sherley, in which the presidency of the school board wa involved, Judge Stites decided la favor of Sherley as the legal president. . , Owing to unbearable debts, amounting to 35.000, it is probable the Reformed tpttcopai society of this city will be disbanded and the church property turned over to the creditors. It is quite probable tbat at the meeting of the charity commissioners to-morrow night be superintendents and other officers of the City Hospital, Alms House, Work House and other charitable institutions will be changed, and Baxter men put in. ; " J. Moberly was fined S500 to-day for running a faro bank. The grand lodge of Kentucky Knights of Pythias convenes In this city to-morrow. . EVANSVILLE. ' Renablican Victory in Evansville Colored Emigration the Cause Jack Storton Shot. Special to the Sentinel: ' Evansville, Ind April 7. ine struggle in this city has resulted in a Radical victory, electing their entire city ticket, five out bf six councilmen being elected by overwhelming majorities. The vote was increased nearly 1,000, and was caused by the large negro vote. Negroes have ben coming here by hundreds for the past week. Fights were tne order oi the day, and one man. Jack Storton, was shot .nd danzerouHlv wounded. The result is a surprise to a'X The Greenbackers did not poll 100 votes. ' ' " ' , r ' VINCKNNES. . . ' A Victim of Misplaced Confidence. : Special to the Sentinel: . VrncENNES, Ind4 April 7. Mr. Pollock, the owner of the celebrated Broadway Mills at this place, has been the victim of misplaced confidence, probably t a considerable extent. One Henry Allen hra for four years been in the employ of Mr. Pollock, who hired Allen to haul his coal from the depot to the mill. Borne

time ago some one told Mr. P. that Henry was

using, aa well as selling his coal. This was the first intimation Mr. P. had of Allen's dishonesty, having always regarded him aa exceptionally honest and faithful. A little Inquiry, however, established the fact to be as reported , and Allen was asked for an explanation. He frankly admitted his guilt and was then discharged. Mr. P. refused to prosecute, and he has left the city with his family. JEFFERSONYILLE. The 8ample Divorce Case Seduction Busi ness Another Eloping Couple Hitched. Special to the Sentinel: Jeffkrsonville, Ind., April 7. In the cir cuit court to-day a complaint was filed by Alex. Sample agalnstO. A. Clark for 15,000 damages for the seduction of his wife. The petition of Mrs. Sample, the defendant in the pending divorce case, asking the court to order the plaintiff to pay into court enough money to pay attorneys' fees and expenses, was heard and petition granted, and plaintiff ordered to pay 1125 into court. Another eloping couple from Southern Ken tucky, named George Green and Maggie Donovan, arrived here at daylight this morning, and were married by Squire P reefer. The large number of convicts in the cooper age department at the State prison will re sume work in the temporary shops while the State Is erecting a large fire proof building in place of those recently destroyed by fire. GREENVILLE, OHIO. Bold Attempt to Murder 1y Three Negroes. Special to the Sentinel: Greenville, April 7. Three negroes Sands, Mason and Eps boldly attempted to murder Sanford Thomas yesterday evening, at his home, 12 miles west of Greenville, and in that part of Darke county where Stephen Wade was murdered last October. The bloody scoun drels beckoned him to his door and then fired, one ot the balls hitting him in the face and moving partly around the cranium. Inflicting a dangerous and perhaps fatal wound. Two of the outlaws have been captured, and will be given a trial to-morrow. Cause, jealou3y. TVSCOLA. An Exciting Walking Match. Special to the Sentinel: Tuscola, 111., April 7. An exciting walking match, of 26 hours, closed here at 10 o'clock Saturday night, which crowded the large Opera Hall for many hours and caused a large amount of money to change hands. James Kennedy, a railroad hand, won first prize making 101 miles and carry ing off J125. Dur ing the contest he did not sleep, and lost eight pounds in flesh. Williams, who was next, made at one time 23 miles in four hours and 15 minutes. ELKHART. Suicide o a Woman. Special to the Sentinel: Elkhart, Ind., April?. Mrs. Tlckner, liv ing 10 miles north of this city," committed salcide late last night by taking morphine. Tem porary insanity is supposed to be the cause. An Important Railroad Cane. Milwaukee, April 7. The argument in one of tbe most important railroad suits ever tried in this county began in the United States circuit court to-day. The case Involves some Si.OOO.OOO and the validity and ownership of Jhe charter and franchise on which the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad company is founded, and makes subject to the third mortgage many of the securities and liens of the company. The salt is brought by William Barnes, of Albany, N. Y trustee of the thirl mortgage, in foreclosure. Hon, Francis Fellows, of Hartlord, Conn.; Hon Joshua Stark, of this city; George ScoviUe, ot Chicago, and Barnes appeared for the plaintiff, and J. W. Carey, of Wilwaukee, for the defense. The litigation in the case began many years ago, and It is probable that a final decision will now be reached, as the court has ample jurisdiction, and all the facts are presented In the pleading. The arguments of Barnes and Stark were finished to-day, and were to the effect that the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and a decree of the United States circuit court affirming the validity of the third mortage as security for the bonds issued under it, are decisive of the rljht of Barnes to maintain the bill for relief against the company which procured such decision and decree on the creditors' bill, and therefore the company is estopped from setting up defense. The defense claim that if the foreclosure of 20 yean ago is void as to creditors it is void in toto. Decision of the Supreme Court In the Noted Whisky Cases. " Washington, April 7. Numbers 929, 9!0, 931, 932, 933, 934, 935 and 975, United States plaintiff in error vs. B. M. Ford et aL, and various quantities of distilled spirits in error to tbe circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. The above known as whliky eases, were suits to recover double taxes and enforce forfeitures upon various quantities of dis trilled spirits for viola tion of the internal revenue laws. The defence set up was based upon an alleged agree ment made by the owners of spirits with the district attorney guaranteeing to the former immunity from paosecution if they would plead guilty and furnish evidence to convict their accomplices. This court holds that the district attorney had no authority to make such agreement, and that when an ao complice discloses the guilt of himself, and hn associates, he merely establishes an equitable title to the mercy of the executive, and can ask tbe court only for postponement of trial In order to give him time to make application for pardon. The Judgment of the lower court is therefore reversed, and the causes remanded for further proceedings In conformity hereto Funeral of Madame Patterson-Bonaparte Raltikore, April 7. The funeral of Madame Patterson-Bonaparte took place to-day. ' In the morning the remains were removed to the residence of the late Hon. Jeronan Bonaparte, now occupied by his widow, Susan M. Bona parte. The funeral was private, only the Im mediate relatives and a tew of the most inti mate friends being Invited. Rev. Dr. Left wich, of the First Presbyterian church, offered prayer at the house, the only religious cere monies before, the procession started for Greenmount cemetery. The chief mourners were her grandsons, Colonel Jerome Nspoloon and Charles Joseph Bonaparte, and tne family of the latter. The family of Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte is in - Paris. Governor Carroll Was a pallbearer. At the grave Dr, Leftwlch read the burial service, and the In terment took place. The coffin bore tbe In scription ; "Elisabeth Patterson, born the 8th of February, 1786; died April i, 1879." The in terment was made on a lot purchased by the lady herself many vears ago for her last rest' lhg plate.' she Is Its only occupant. '

BALLOTS AND.BAYONETS.

The Political Issue Clearly and Dis tinctly Made Up by Congress. The Action of Monarchical England on the Question of Military at the Polls. "Pittsburg Post. The Republicans in Congress and through their press, says they are ready to go before the people for judgment, on their opposition to the sixth section of the new army bill. This is the sixth section of the bill, as proposed by the Democrats in Congress: "That section 2,002 of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read aa follows: 'No military or naval officer, or other person engaged in the civil, military, or naval service of the United Slates shall order, bring, keep, or have under his authority or control any troops or armed men at tbe place where any general or special election is held in any State, unless It be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States.' "And that section 5,528 of the Revised Stat utes be amended so as to read as follows: 'Every officer of the army or navy, or other person In the civil, military or naval service of the United States, who orders, bring , keeps, or has nnder his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held la any State, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of tbe United States, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment at hard labor not less than three months nor more than five years.' " The law as It stands only diners from the above law, proposed by the Democrats, in the particular that the existing law contains after the words "to repel armed enemies of me unitea states - tne additional words "or to keep the peace at the polls." These latter words the Democrat propose to strike out. And this makes up the issue, clearly and distinctly, whether elections in America shall be free or whether they shall be ruled by the bayonet. The statute proposed to be amended was enacted in 1365, after the close of the war. It was enacted as a protection of the citizen in bis right of voting, against military inter ference, and was intended to prohibit the presence ot troops at tne polls; and then, as if in irony, the words were added to the prohibition, "except it may be necessary to keep the peace at the polls." This was satire of the highest order. "To keep the peace at the polls!" How easy it is to have a little difficulty or dis turoance at the elections; wa hays them every year. They can be got up to order. And the military officer may march up his troops to preserve the peace, but where meanwhile is the voice of the people? A Louis Napoleon would ask nothing better than this law if he desired to subvert a gov ernment. Grant, if be should be successful in his third term aspirations, may hold the presidency for life with such a law on the statute book, as well as control the election of members of Congress and United States senators. . Prior to 18G5 no one even sugvmted that the federal Government could ei:ter a State with its military power, to "keep tbe peace at the poils." That duty was left with the State and local authorities. Was not the peace maintained, and were not the elec tions free and honest? At the close of tbe war when this statute was passed men breathed a military atmosphere, and thsre was bitter passion on all sides. Judgment was paraij zea ana congress was in no con dition to trams wise and just legislation. we can do no better service in this con nection than by citing- the action of mon archical England on this question of mill tarv at the polls. So long ago as ths reign of George it, a statute was piised for that purpose, which was renaciei by parliament unaer Victoria, ana reads as follows: Section x. And be It enacted. That on every day appointed for the nomination or for the election or for taking the poll for the election of a member or members to serve i n the Com mons House of Parliament, no soldier .within two miles of any city, borough, town, or place, where such nomination or election shall be declared or poll taken, shall be allowed to go out of the barrack or quarters in which he is stationed, unless for the purpose of mounting or relieving guard, or for giving his voto at such election ; aud that every soldier allowed to go out lor any sucn purpose witnin tne limits aforesaid shall return to his barrack or quarters with all convenient speed as soon as his guard shall have been relieved or vote tendered. Sec 3. And be it enaoted. Tbat when and ao often as an election of any members to serve in the Commons Housu of Parliament shall be appointed to be made, the clerk of the crown in chaDcery or other officer making out any new writ ior sucn elections soau, wiin au convenient speed, after making out the same writ, give notice thereof to the secretary at war, or. in case there shall be no secretary at war, to the person officiating In hu stead, who shall, at some convenient time before the day apoolnted for such election, give notice thereof in wriung 10 ine general omoer commanding in eaeh district of Great Britain, who shall thereupon give the necessary orders for enforcing the execution of this act in all places un der his command. It will be seen from the above that when ever an election for member of Parliament takes place the soldier must disappear from the scene. The people are sovereign on that day. During the hours of election the soldier must be within his barrack. That there may be no mistake about this the secretary of state la charged with the duty of making known through tbe war office that an election is to take place in order that the symbol ot force may retire and the majesty of the people may reign supreme, at least for one day, when the right ot suffrage is exercised in Great Britain. Mr. Hewitt, of New lork, in Introducing at the last session ot Congress, the amend ment to the law on which the Democrats in Congress now stand, after referring to the law of England above cited, said: -They are not in iineland willing to have the power of the army compounded even for a day with the -machinery by which civil process is enforced. Yet we. in this coun try, have solemnly enacted that on an elec tion day, "if - it is necessary to keep the peace," the army of the United States may be marched to the polls. Such a provision is at war with every principle for which our ancestors oon tended, and which is embodied in the frame-work of our Government, Every hour that we allow it to remain on the statute book is treason to the great men who achieved liberty' for us, who found this government ot ours after fighting for tbe right of representation, who imbedded this right into tne constitution, who isalouslT ruarded it from the tounaa tion of the Government until 1S00, and whose anlrits. if thev could speak to ns in this hall, would entreat us to remember the sacrifices by which this liberty was se cured, and not allow it to be imperiled by the insidious use of the military power. Bnt all this has been better said by Mr. David Dudley Field, in an article of his. nubliahed in the Albany Law Journal, in September. 1877.- upon this very subject. It was written after a very full conference In which I enjoyed the benefit of -bls mstruo-

tions and ad nee. He sums np the whole

matter In this language: "The great maxims of free governments are the fruit, not of one generation or of one century, but of many generations and many centuries; they have been fought for and suffered for; they hare been established and consecrated by blood and fire. If ws would preserve them and profit by them, wa must remember them, teach them, and stand by them. It is an accepted article of the political creed of every free country that the military is and must be subject to the civil power. Whoever teaches that any military officer, from the highest to the lowest, from the commander-in-chief to the sergeant of a guard, can lawfully command his soldiers to enter any place or do any act which the law making power of his country forbids, should be accounted, as he n in fact, tbe enemy at once of his country and his race." . ibis is one ol the great issues on which the Democracy propose to go to the country. Another is the repeal of the test oath for jurors, which permits the packing of juries for special or political purposes. And the other is the repeal of the law for the unlim ited appointment of deputy mashals to do partisan work at the polls. We never bad a stronger or more righteous cause. It is ingrained with every principle of American liberty, an untarnished judiciary and free and honest suffrage. HYDRAULIC GOLD MIXES. A Talk With an Old Californian The Pe culiar Methods of Hydraulic and Drift Mining Darge Yields of the Gravel Mines. iNew York Tribune.' John H. Thomas, of Laporte. CaL. one of largest hydraulic miners of that State, is now at the .Park Avenue Hotel, on a visit to the city, after an absence of 23 years, Mr. . . Thomas came to New York from Massachusetts, a lad of 17, without a dollar, and found employment with David Moffit A Co., down in tbe ''swamps," until he earned enough for a steerage passage to San Francisco, and at once went to the mines in I'm mas and Sierra counties, where he has remained until he has become one of the principle owners of the Great Blue Lead. Mr. Thomas is now in his 40th year; of bis particular work he seems habitually reticent. In answering to questions about his mining experience, Mr. Thomas said: "Well, it is not very large. I have been at work in the gold gravel of Plumas and Sierra counties for over 20 years, but know little of mining outside except by hearsay. I was after gold, and finding that the head ot the gold gravel channel was around Pilot Peak and Little Grizzly, I decided to stay, and every year since I've had a better reason for so doing. The really lasting and rich gold gravel beds of California are found in what seems to be tbe channels of large rivers tbat one time ran nearly north and south, or at right angles to the present rivers. These channels appear to have been first nearly filled with washings from gold quarts veins, then volcanic action tumbled mountains snd lava over tb&m and raised them up. There are three of thee? channels, known as the White, Gray and Blue Leads. The Blue Lead is the largest and richest, and on this I've worked, and of this only I would rather talk. The head of a channel holds the coarsest . gold, and the most of it, like tbe head of a sluice, and the bead of the Big Blue is producing more gold than any territory of like ; size in the world. There about 10 miles square has yielded, according to lowest estimates, over $200,000,000. O. W. Hendel, a mining engineer who has lived and worked there 23 years, and who reported on it for Commissioner Raymond, says tbat for the vicinity of Laporte alone, over $100,000,000 has been taken out of the gravel. Tbe books of ' Dr. Brewster, who was mail and express carrier from Laporte, shows that he carried out in 10 years over $00,000,000. Then, too. in this vicinity are the greatest gold quarts mines ot California, the Plumas, Eureka, Sierra, Bat tea, Mammoth, and others, that together have produced in the neighborhood of $300,000,000." "Are not the gravel beds about worked out?" "No, gravel mining la in its infancy with us. There are square miles of unexplored grsvel, and of tbe gravel beds actually ex plored, tunneled, drifted and opened. I do not think one twentieth have been worked. The Union, drift mine, averaged over $400,000 per acre. The Down East, also a drift, got over $400,000 from six acre a This has been about the average ot our anit mines, which, working only three or four feet of the gravel nearest the bed rock, got from $2 to $13 per cubic yard, at an average expense, including improvements, of about 25 per cent. - of the product, when psying S3 to $4 a day for miners. Our hydraulic mines show averages ot 12 cents to 60 cents per cubic yard, and there are from 10,000 to :w,(WU cubic yards per acre; an average In tbe main channel of Stf.OOO to 100,000 cable yards an acre. An inch of water, about 2,000 cubic feet, with head of 100 to 200 feet, will wash from three to four cubic yards a day, and costs from two cents to 10 cents an inch. Now apply your arithmetic and see how small an area of this channel is necessary to produce the ' amounts I have named, and produce them profits." "If this is true, why is there no rush to - these gold fields, as there is to Leadville?" There have been many ot them ana ter rible ones in times past. Under the old law a man could locate 100 feet wide of this gravel, and thousands of these locations were made in early excitements, but the locators soon found that to work their property with profit required large oatlaye for miles of ditches if for hydraulic, or thousands of feet of tunnels if for drift mining. Many abandoned their claims, some combined, and s few formed companies and succeeded in getting money enough for proper equipments, and it is only within the last five yea that hydraulic mining has been really established. Now it is growing more rapid ly than our quarts mining. Tbe director of the mint estimates that cauiornut s goia product for 1873 wss about $20,000,000.. I think it was fully that, and tbat two-thirds, if not three-quarters, was from gold gravel. One claim of the Dutch company got $3.13 a cubic yard from 27,000 cubic yards, and another got $20.87 per yard from 3,000 cubio yards. Craig's Flat and Morristown got over $5,000,000 from about 22 acres. . and from about. 47 acres of the Conly Gowell ground over $7,000,000 has been taken. This company divided S2GL000 profits In one year from a total expense of $5,500." "Why are not these gravel mining stocks on tbe San Francisco boards?" "I suppose mainly because brokers do not like them. When the companies wanted working capital they usually got it by private subscription, tn many instances from England, and when once working the returns are so certain, there is so little to be said, surmised or promised, because everything is in sight, that there is little chance for manipulatioaj' . Too Hack Revolution. Springfield Republican (Ind.) "Revolution" Is in the air again at Washington. This is the third time in three years. Then was one when Hayes withdrew the troops; one when the Democrats passed the Potter resolution, and now Mr. Garfield waves his red flag at the approach of another "rsvotat-on." : v -: -