Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE , SENTINEIi, "WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1879.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19.

France lose 30,000,000 francs by the vin tage failures this year. . - . It costs $30,000,000 a year to ran the gov ernment of New York City. Gkrxral Butler is happy. He says his defeat in Massachusetts will save him $50, 000. Slxce September 1, 1879, the exports of wheat to Europe amount to 52,797,288 bushels. ' Thi distress In Ireland steadily increases, and another famine is likely to occur. So much for British rale. Matt Cabpentsb fears that the Democrats will emulate the Republican party by utilizing fraud to inaugurate a president Governor Bishop wants $60,000 for bis fractured reputation. The governor has complimented the Gazette too highly. PrrrsBtrBO coal miners now have 19,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels of coal ready for shipment, bat not a bushel can go forward to help the Ohio river towns, on account of low water. The Jews are taking possession of Jerusalem. At the beginning of the present century there were bat 300 Jews in . that city; there are now 13,000, and they have got all the corner lots. Thi invention of the audiphone has been the means of reforming Mr. Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune. Being able to hear, he goes to church, and is making some progress in Christianity.. Thb Earl of Aberdeen owns a railroad all by himself. It is 10 miles long, and cost 275,000. Vanderbllt and Tom Scott could buy a dozen such roads any day, and they never expect to be earls. It is a great shame that General Grant has been egged by three small boys. The boys have been arrested. Strange tossy, nothing is reported Bhowing the politics of the boys. Possibly they belong to the Republican church. Hates, when he remembers that he has pocketed more than $100,000 of Tilden's salary, is happy; but when he reflects that it is not a life steal he weeps, and Mrs. Hayes weeps, and all the Hayes tribe weeps. It is mournful. It is believed that General Ben Harrison will be the tail to the presidential kite, but whether a Blaine tail, a Sherman tail, a Grant tall or a Washburne tail, is not known. The general will not be a candidate for governor of Indiana. He has bad enongh of that. California farmers are engaged in introducing Peruvian corn, taken from the Andes valley, 400 miles back from Lima. It is said that the grain is very large, resembling a mail oyster cracker. In its native soil, the production is said to be from 300 to 400 bushels per acre. Ic grinds to fine flour without any bran. Tkb New York World says that no man ean be elected president of the United States by the Democratic party ia 1830 who can not command the united Bupport of the Damocracy of that State, and no man within the State can command that support, except Governor Seymour, who will not or cannot accept another nomination. Wi produce this morning elsewhere in the Sentinel a very able argument made last night by Senator McDonald before the Hendricks club in relation to the Federal election laws, concerning supervisors and United States marshals at the polls. We trust that our readers will give the matter careful reading and attention, that they may see the' tendency of some of the despicable measures of the Republican party, and notice how steadily and surely we are drifting from the old ideas and landmarks of the fathers into AantMliiattAn and tha vtn9aa . ti'l vnanTtAva of the despotisms of monarchial governments. Thosk who want to know with what conscientious tenacity Hayes and his cabinet hang on to civil service reform may get a tolerable idea of it by reading the following letter of John Sherman to Silas B. Dutcher, appraiser in the New York Custom House: Bis Your application for leave of absence Is hereby granted. I cordially approve of your taking part in the Cornell and Host Ins campaign, and will do all In my . power to favor their election. I have no objections to the Government employes making contributions to the fund. Your suggestion that I should take part In the campaign by speaking in several of the prominent cities in your State I will answer at some future time. Yours respectfully, John Sherman. Governor Wiluavi has pardoned R:chard Vint out of the penitentiary. Vint was sentenced from this elty some two years and a hall ago for five years, for embezzlement on a retty large scale. He was pardoned because e was "Mufferlog from an enlarged liver." Governor Williams to not credited with much originality, but he has certainly added a new cause to the list of those for which convicts may be pardoned. Journal. Possibly Governor Williams remembered that Indianapolis, within "two years and a half," has had several "embezzlers on a pretty large scale" who did not go to the penitentiary at all, and therefore concluded, if men with diseased hearts could remain at liberty, that a "diseased liver" was a good reason for pardon. Blaine and Sherman are Just a little skeered. Grant's boom begins to look and sound like a bomb. It looks as though Grant was going to resume. This will be hard on John Sherman, and worse than a sunstroke to Blaine. Sherman, while Grant has been junketing round the world, has been at home giving bia country the nation with a big "N," sunshine and shower, seed-time and harvest, the early and the latter rain, has kept the sun in his place, the planets jn their orbits, painted rainbows on the clouds, and at the same time has spread famine'over Eumpe,o that this country could sell all of its wheat, hog, hominy and cotton ; and uow,har

cornea Grant with hli boom and hi bomb,

and plays the deuce with it all. It is too bad entirely. Blaine at the same time has been trying to make the South mad, manufacture a new rebellion, and do other things just to make the North solid, to find out after all that he has been manufacturing giant powder with which to blow hia own presidential rookery sky-high. Such things make Blaine and Sherman anxious. If Blaine plays Zsch Chandler, and becomes the "great American irritator" In Congress, the more the cry will be for Grant The more John Sherman plays "The Great Disposer of Events" providing good weather and cansng good crops the more the Grant boom will boom, for the boomers will tell Sherman that there would have been no country but for Grant. Any one who ever saw two great big burly mastiffs meet in a highway, can form a good idea how Blaine and Sherman meet to discuss their booms. The great danger now is that Sherman will not give the country good crops next year, and that Blaine will net accept of Zich Chandler's mantle. It is being hinted by some of the Republican papers that the Hew York Legislature which meets this winter should s'ect the presidential electors for the next meeUng of the electoral college in 1880. As the Legislature is largely Republican, this scheme would give New York to the Republican candidate for the presidency without doubt. If this new Radical dodge should develop into anything near a consummation, it might be well enough for Governor Wil liams to call the Indiana Legislature together and let it select Indiana's electors in the manner proposed by New York Rtdical papers for that State, and Governor Bishop might call the old Legislature of Ohio to gether for the same purpose, as the new Legislature of Ohio does not assemble until after the first of January. With Ohio and Indiana thus arranged for, perhaps we might yield New York to the tender mercies of a Republican Legislature. THE GRANT BOOM. If the Republican party shall determine at last to place Grant on the track for a third term the Democratic party Is not likely to signify a preference for other stalwarts who have been named, or who may be brought forward by Republican factions. The Dem ocratic party, looking to its own success and the triumph of the principles, and measures it has advocated and will continue to maintain, sees nothing in the candidacy of General Grant to occasion doubt or dismay. On the con trary, it requires no large powers of prescience to discover that Grant would be, all things considered, preferable to other stal warts who are cultivating presidential booms. This conclusion bears the stamp of reasonableness, and the more the Grant boom is analyzed the more firmly will the public mind be impressed with the fact. In the first place, those who may give the subject careful consid eration will Beek to know the real motives of those who are conspicuous in urging Grant as a third-term candidate. The solution of the problem ia not difficult. It is worthy of observation that those most conspicuous in manufacturing Grant thun der never make any direct nor indirect allusion to Grant's presidential career not a syllable nor a sentence of eulogy. In all of the Niagaras of gush with which the country has been flooded since the general landed at San Francisco, there has boen a studious omission of Grant's career as president. Why? Because he took the most exalted office known to civilized nations and made it odious. So execrable were his administrations that the best element of the Republican party, realizing the abominations he permitted and the infamous character of the men whom he patronired, abandoned the party - and sought by every means at their command to correct the deplorable evils he had brought upon the country. It is a truth, known and read by all men, that Grant as president was not only a failure, but a calamity. Hence, no one of those who are now managing his boom refer to his administrations as a reason why he should have a third term. His administrations are without one redeeming incident to obscure their record of nepotism, selfishness, venality, psculation. fraud, villainy, ignorance, duplicity and despotism. It is said that Grant was not responsible; that his agents, his chosen counselors thoae to whom he gave his confidence, and to whom he confided great trusts deceived him. If this is admitted, it does not help the case. His selections of men were, with rare excep tions, the most depraved and vicious that could be found; and when their incapacity and Infamy were made notorious, Grant became their refuge and their de fense. We challenge the record; there it stands a record so vile that his friends dare not refer to it, lest from every page there shall start forth facts so haggard and hideous as to demoralize the boom. These men whom Grant patronized and defended fanatics, thieves and plunderers; the Robesons, Belknaps, Babcocks et id , are, to a man, for Grant and a third term for Grant means a third term for them. Such things the Grant boomers desire to have kept in the background; and hence no reference is made to Grant's record while occupying the office of president for eight years. If the Republican party is ready for the discussion, it will find the Damocratio party ready to meet its champions more thaa half way, and as a consequence the Democratic party does not care what magnitude the Grant boom may reach. Another reason why Republican stalwarts want Grant is clearly expressed in the statement that a "strong man," a "great soldier," is wanted to fight the South and the Democratic party, It is a clear, unequivocal declara tion that the immediate future, if they can regain full power in the Government, is to Inaugurate a fanatical and sectional war hence the conntry is continually reminded of all the fierce battles that were fought during the war. Grass-grown and flower decked graves are opened and the ghap'Jy dead are made to pass in review. The old Area axe rekindled, the old hates revived, old issues brought for ward, the bloody shirt ia waved; the utter ances of fools are magnified and distorted; the 8outh is denounced and slandered, and 1 ail things tost neliistt ' malice oaa tie-

vise or invent is vomited upon the country for the purpose of creating sectional hostilities. This done, Grant is to mount the fiery billows of fanaticism to be carried again to the White House. . The stalwarts regard it as their last chance, and Grant as their last forlorn hope. But the people are likely to comprehend the terrible perils of such purposes. Rising above the din of such infernal demands there must be heard a voice demanding peace, fraternity, good wllL Upon sifch issues the Democratic party is ready for the Grant boom, or any other Republican boom that may be started. It will go before the country the champion of the constitution, the rights of the people, and the advocate of just laws knowing no North, no South, no section; cultivating no sectional antagonisms; with a policy as broad as the continent; with principles, like truth, which, if crashed to earth, shall rise again. The Democratic party, regardless of Republican nominations, will go before the country in 1880, and it must not be forgotten that when it again elects a president and a vice president the choice of the people will be inaugurated. ' CARRYING STATES. We are constantly reminded by the press, as also by distinguished gentlemen of the party, that only certain men can carry certain States in the campaign of 1880. If such representations are correct, then the Democratic theory of elections must be reversed, for, instead of "measure i not men," the maxim must be "men not measures" or men first and measures second. As the case now stands, a great many ardent Democrats seem to be of the opinion that if certain men do not occupy places on the presidential ticket of the party, certain Spates, believed to be reliably Democratic, at once become doubtful, or even worse than doubtful. We do not believe that such expressions are calculated to strengthen the Democratic party. They relate altogether too much to men. It is a virtual abandonment of principles, policy and measures. It is in all regards undue personal exaltation. It obscures the fact that the party is larger than the mao,. and will survive when the man is dead. More than this: It belittles the eternal principles upon which the party is founded.

and which, in spite cf man's opposition, have shaped tbe destiny of the Republic, and without which the whole fabric would tumble to ruins in an hour. If these principles have an abiding place in the hearts and consciences of the American people, if they have permeated the great public mind and molded the best thought of the country, no man has a right to claim that he is the embodiment of them, nor has any man the right to assert that these principles of fealty to the constitution and to tba welfare of the whole country will find full and free expression in certain States, only where certain men are put forward to represent them. It should be borne in mind that great parties b9C0me factionized by personal followings, rather than by disagreements npon fundamental principles. We are not ia sympathy with the idea that a Western man can not carry New York nor an Eastern man Indiana. Such opinions tend directly to sectionalism within the party. Such views are not broad nor statesmanlike they a.-e not Democratic; for Democracy, in its practices and principles, knows no section. A Democrat is everywhere a Democrat, in all the broad land. The Democratic party glories in its princi ples; it magnifies the constitution for the wisdom it embodies, and the rights it confers. The Democratic party can not be sectional. Upon no cardinal principle of government it can not be one thing in one n ate and some thing entirely different in another State. Upon minor questions individuals may differ but they are non-essentials, and deserve little prominence. They are in all regards ephemeral as compared with the indestructible principles upon which the party was founded, and which, when the madness of passion and fanaticism ' have burst upon the country, have saved it from destruction. When these principles are brought to the front, and the Democratic pa'ty organizes and solidifies and harmonizes upon them, it has been in the past, and will be again in the future, invincible; then its strides become gigantic; then its voice commands attention; then the constitu tion, with all of its sacred guarantees, ia exalted; faction is hushed; demagogues hide their . deformities; the country, the whole country, with all of its vist and varied interests, absorbs the attention of patriots; and standard bearers, whether from the East or West, tbe North or South, command the suffrages of Democrats in all the States, and victory is assured. Webster, in his reply to Hayne, characterized the words "Liberty first and Union afterward" as "delusion and folly," and "Men first and measures afterward" are words equally out of place. What is wanted now, and never more than now, is the reassertion everywhere by the Democratic party, of the principles of Government embodied in the constitution tbe rights of the States and the liberties of the people from which follow peace, good will, union and prosperity. This done, the Democratic party will, without difficulty, find the man to lead on to victory. Then the question will not occur who can carry certain States, for any true man whom the Democrats in council may select, will be voted for East, West, North and South from Maine to Oregon, from the Penobscot to tbe Rio Grande, and from the broad prairies of the West to the everglades of Florida. To this the country is coming. Recent events intensify the desire. The Republican party by its ungovernable hates, by Its thirst for despotic power, by its alliance with all that la vicious in politics, atrocious in practice, and Infamous in aims and ends, compels the Democratic party to dismiss its contentions abov.i men and to mass its strength, its abilities, its patriotism upon measures. This done, Democrats will at once rise superior to the idea of State allegiance to men. Their Democracy will expand' and broaden until, comprehending the mission of the party, and demand ing unity npon measures, they will readily accept standard bearer who, by the verdict of the party, lira pronounced qualified for sue exalted posiUeu.

CLEANINGS. England buys California's canned aprloota, and wants more than they raise. " Holidays in 188J on Sunday-Washington's birthday. Decoration day, July , and Christmas. . Butlek is said to be planning to run for Congress next year in one of the Boston districts. John Dunn, the Scotchman, who was Uetawayo's prime minuter,' baa 20 Zulu wlvea and 90 children. Senator Chandler is said to have been haunted by the fear that he would die as President Lincoln died. Mr. Cogswell, of Pawtucket, It. I., has given 125,000 to build a drinking fountain, which he will present to the city. The last Georgia Legislature made it amisdemeanor for any one whose taxes are unpaid to vote at any election in that State. A vert considerable redaction, amounting to $10,332,906.62, was made in the public debt during the month of October Just past. Crude rubber is so scarce and the mills so active that you may have to pay 100 per cent, more for your arctios than you would last spring. Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey intend to main tain revival work In St, Louis all winter. They will open their meetings there In about two weeks. Massachusetts will now suspend, for a few months, the great industry of defeating Butler, and go to making boots and shoes and cotton goods. There is a tndden change In the mental

condition of tbe ex-Empress Carlotta, and her complete restoration to sanity is now conoid, ered possible. Two young ladies In Washington county exhibited at the State fair last week some beautiful speolmens of Arkansas silk. Searcy (Ark.) Beacon. New York and Brooklyn warehouses con tain 8,438,000 bushels of wheat, 2,693 000 bushels of corn, 705,030 bushels of oats, 195,000 bushels of rye, and 119,000 bushels of barley. Suffolk county, Mass., which includes the city of Boston, gave a Democratic majority of more than 8,000; yet out of the six Republican candidates for the Senate four were elected. Grant comes out In a new light. "I am a man of economy," he said at Ualesbnrg, "and as the newspaper men here have to go to tbe expense of telegraphing every word I say, I will make no speech." In Oneida county, New York, containing the city of Utlca, where Senator Oonkling lives, Mr. Cornell ran 651 votes behind lionkins, the candidate for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket. A prominent operator reports 75 percent. advance in the price of real estate in the city of New York since March. Lute fortunes have been made by real estate operators. Business is very brisk. . Tub manufacture of tobacco furnishes em ployment to some 10,009 children. The girls are especially skilled in this industry, and one can put up 13 gross of tobacco in tin foil and 22 gross in paper in one day. The business done by the Western Union Teleg-aph company Is an admirable standard lor tbe measurement of the basinets of the country. It is enormously greater than at any time in its history, and without example. The Paducah News tells of a negro farm laborer near that city who ploughed up, a day or two since, a stone Jar containing 11,800 in gold coin. Who planted it there la the all-absorbing question in that community just now. Philadelphia, with a smaller population than New York City, registers 23,547 more vot ers than the latter. In New York the total number of voters registered at the last election was 168,013, while in Philadelphia the number was 193,690. General Butler has a good precedent for his repeated annual struggles. One Marcus Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts on the thirteenth trial. Butler has considerable margin to cover before his reoord will equal that of Morton. Mrs. Grant says that the general onee lost all his money in a potato speculation. He paid 1750 for 150 bushels of potatoes, planted them, expecting to make a large profit, but when they were ripe potatoes were too cheap to pay for the digging. The clearings of Chicago banks last week showed a larger increase over last year's statement than any previous week this year. The total amount of the clearings was $33,645,51 1.38a being (11,351,961.22 over those of the corresponding week last year. Did you ever see a pocket book: made out of a murderer's skint They have one at the Newton Loan exhibition in New Jersey. The murderer, Antolne L Blanc, was hanged in Morris town 40 years ago. His skin was tanned and made into relics. When rebels were really dangerous where' were the men who to day are bellowing "rebel?" Metbinka they all had some disability and helped save the TJn.'on by selling tape, or were listening for the boom of the great guns across the Canadian line. Meetings exclusively for women are a pecu liarity of the present Moody and Banky revi val at Cleveland, the two evangelists being the only men admitted. Many of the women converts, relieved of male eyes, give way to the most extravagant religious fervor. A new machine for tbe manufacture of paper boxes, which threatens to revolutionize that Important Birmingham trade, has just been introduced by the Paper Box Machine company, of Cleveland, O. A single machlre is capable of producing 15,000 compute boxes a day. Wha t could be more intensely American than the act of the Yankee who. on alsltlng an Italian convent and being sbown a lamp which had not been permitted to go out for more than live centuries, quickly stepped op to it and blew it out, with the remark, "Well, I guess its out now." Cincinnati Gaxette. Mrs. Moses Studley, of Bremen. Me., is 106 year of age with remarkable health. Ber mind is clear, and ahe delights ber visitors with stories of Indian wars, and gives vivid descriptions of tbe aea fight between the Enterprise and the Boxer, and describe the landing of British barges at Bremen In 1812. Sons two weeks ago a aheep-ralser near San Antonla dipped 1.B0U head of his sheep in a deooctlon of tobacco, using a good article of the weed In the proportion of 33 pounds to 100 gallons of water. A few days afterward they began to sicken and die, 75 head dying in a little time. Tliey wera afflicted with a violent and ottenslve purging. Simon Burling axe has taken a fifth wife to his borne at Rlpon, Wis. Tnree of her predecessors died at yearly Intervals, and were burled side by side, with tombstones to match. The fourth fled, affrighted oy the Unit attack of illness, and would not return, thus giving her husband legal ground for divorce. The fth is as yet undismayed. In a talk with a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ex Senator Cameron is said to have referred to political affaire In this State as follows: "That, so far as Pennsylvania was concerned, an early convention would be held, and the delegates would be in structed for General Grant, thus leading off In the movements preliminary to the pres.-

tared little whom the Democrats nominated; that the people would elect Grant with a swell." That, so far as the Jfcmocratic nomination for the presidency is concerned, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the problem Is now most simple. w need no conquests, or gains or revolutions, 9ft only have to hold our own, to keep what we have, to preserve New York and Indiana. Mrs. Smith, of Westmoreland county, Va., who weighed 610 pounds, was buried a few days ago. Before the coffin was delivered two ordinary sired men lay in it aide by side. At the funeral It was necessary to carry the corpse out of the house and place It in the eoflln on the sidewalk. The army of the United States, as at present constituted, seems to be a little bit top heavy, with 11 generals and 1,558 officers for only 20.000 men. This Is a very large allowance of generals, but Is still tar behind the militia organization of Colorado, where they have one general to every 58 privates. Adam Hammond complains that the bedclothes In the Scottsburg, 111., penitentiary are rotten. He tore a sheet Into strips, made a rope thereof, and tried to hang himself; bat the cloth broke and let blm down. Then he tried a quilt, with no better success, and was badly bruised by the fall. From official returns we learn that Chicago elevators contain 5,031319 bushels of wheat, 1,905,783 busbels of corn, 811.854 bushels ol oats, 184,205 bushels Of rye, and 651,452 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 8,587,613 bushels, against 7,791,180 bushels a week ago, and 5,902,791 bushels at this period last year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that an interesting experiment in natural philosophy may be made by any one who, on one of these fine frosty mornings, will put his ear to the gronnd and listen. He will distinctly hear Uie Bayard boom. The same rensatlon may be produced by reading the newspaper. THE-Nashvllle American says: The Bayard boom keeps growing. It has swung around considerably within the last few days, and with the advantage of not encountering any other boom to speak of to impede its progress. The growth of Bayard sentiment in this city during the past few days has been immense. Senator Pendleton, it is said, thinks this Is no time for the Democrats to be declaring their choice for a leader in 1880. He believes that the party ought to be devoUng all Its energies to sober reflection, in order to decide anon some true Democratic issues, and leave the selection of a candidate till after this work has been accomplished. "Senator," said General Beat ty to the late Senator Chandler not long ago, "I would like to see you president. You are the sort of a man we need Just now." "No. no," he replied; 'I hope 111 never get the presidential fever It Is sure death. Men recover from the smallpox, cholera and yellow fever, but they never get over the presidential fever." Tiiers is a young man in Cadiz, Ky of such susceptible and sympathetic physical composition that he waa forced at one time to abandon a position in a drng store for the novel reason that he could not handle any kind of medicine without being affected with all the consequences it was calculated to produce on the party for whom it was intendedAn exchange says that the Democratic standard next year must be carried by clean bands. Every watchword, argument, appeal or consideration will be in vain nnlees this Is done. It Is tbe very first consideration. The part yleadev must have clean hands, and tbe party must not be put on the defensive to apologize and explain. A defensive campaign means a disastrous one. A ps rv at letter from a business man In New Orleans, dated November 1, says: "Business Is booming down here. , There Is an immense crop to move, and the fall has been remarkably Dae. Cotton, sugar and rice are selling at good prices, the country is full of money, and everyone Is in fine spirits. If you want to see a big business, come to New Orleans about December." A Washington special says that there Is a very general sentiment among sensible Democrats that New York and Indiana will furnlsb the head and tail of the ticket. It may be Tilden and an Indiana man, or Hendricks and a New York man Clatkson N. Potter, for instance. Of one thing there Is a certainty, that the Democrats feel that they have more than a fighting chance .left for 1880, and the Republicans Ill-humoredly conoede the claim. The success of the Jetty system at the month of the Mississippi has now been proved beyond dispute. The British steamship. City of Bristol, drawing 21 feet, seven Inches, has passed through the Jetties without detention, although the tide was four Inches below tbe average. Now that the largest steamship can pass safely to and from New Orleans, it will be a strange thing if the grain shipments of that port do not Increase In a large ratio. "O, PA."satd alltUo girl in Canton, N. Y.. bouncing into the house with Joy beaming from her young face, ' O, pa! there's no more school to-day." "Why not, my child!" Inquired the father. "Wby, Mr. Conkllng la going to speak in the town halL." Who Is this Mr. Conkllng?" asked the father. "Well, I dontknow much about blm, pa," answered the little enthusiast, "only they say he la a man that had some trouble about another man's wife." Pa explodes and disappears.

A spirited woman put an end to a duel near Berlin three weeks ago. Principals, reconda and an army surgeon were on the ground, and the pistols wre loading, when the lady suddenly drove ap in a swift drosebky to the place of meeting, stepped op to her husband's second, snatched a pistol from his hand, and directing its muzzle toward her bosom, declared that she would kill herself nnless the projected duel was at onee given np. The whole party returned peaceably to Berlin. The Boston Herald relates that General Butter, being asked if he Intended to make an other effort for tbe governorship of Massachu setts, said: "AS I was returning to Lowell from Boston, tbe next day after election, two Individuals, somewhat the worse for liquor, who occupied a seat behind me, were discuss ing the result of tbe election, evidently un aware of my proximity to them. Finally one of them says: 'Jerry, do yon think old Ben '11 run again? 'Runt Of course hell run; he's only been scoring so far.' " The statement Is made on good authority that some of the trunk railroads have given orders for 7,000 new freight Cars. These con tracts will require 14,000,000 pounds of pig iron for wheels aloue, and nearly 6,000,000 pounds for axles. For tbe remainder of lite Iron work probably about 6,0001)0 pounds will be re quired. Thus, In the aggregate, about 10,000 tons of pig iron will be needed for the com pletionof the contract. If a few more orders of this kind should be made any tendonoy to lower prices for pig Iron would very naturally be checked. The Evening News says that as a dis tinguished general and the foremost cit izen of the Republic, tbe News Is ready to do General Grant all possible hon or. Bat It can not accept the doctrine that be is the only man out of bO.000,000 of the bravest and shrewdest people the world ever held who is capable of saving or sustaining a Govern ment solidly fixed in the minds and hearts of the people, and of preserving a liberty that la the heritage of ages of thought and struggle, Tbe hope of this country U not pinned to any one man, however brave and talented he may

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The Programme of the Managers of the Third Terra Movement. A Washington dispatch to the New York Sun says: General Grant's written speech, delivered in . Chicago on Wednesday, is of iteeii signinoant, out wnen taken in coot.eetion with a letter received here by one of tbe managers of the third term boom from one of Grant's most intimate and confiden tial friends, thu caretully prepared speech becomes especially significant. In his letter Grant's friend says that in dca time Grant will let it be known authoritativelv that he is at the disposal of the Anw rican people; or, in other words, that it nominated by tbe Republican party he will accept. At the same time, it is asrted that Grant will not be a sectional candidate. Ha expects support from the Sou h, and it euciea president ne will not be a sectional president. lie is to play the role of the great conciliator. This, bia presidential managers think, will be most ap; ropnaie. They argue that, after the election ot 1880, the people of the North willbeheartilv tird of the sectional issue, and that the South will be perfectly willing to abandon its preference for Democratic doctrines and States rights theories and go in with a will for a great nation, a strong Government and plenty of spoils. They say that Grant, having been out ot the country, is not responsiole for the present sectional attitude of the Re publican party. lie is not going to remain in tbe country this winter, but will go to Cuba and Mexico, and will not return to the United States until next spring. Then he will laud at New Orleans and make e tour through the Southern S alts. According to the scheme so carefully ma tured. Grant will not be a candidate in th ordinary sense of the term. The nomina tion, in other words, is to be thrust upon him, and he will accept it in a way that, while it will not alienate the republicans. win maae mm many votes in toe booth. IT.- 1 v. f . L . , . rave the way for this part of tbe prrimmr. happen to know that this scheme will be msch more acceptable to a neater nnmWr of Southern Democrats than is generally supposed to be pots'. ble. A conspicuous Dimocratic congressman from Southern State, who was a dis tinguished general in the Rebel army, told me not lorje ego that he was thrown into close connection with Grant at tbe close of the electoral count in tbe spring of 1S77, and in this interview his preconceived opinion of Grant was entirely chaoged. He was satisfied, he said, that tbe Southern leaders had made a great mirake in keeping aloof from Grant during bia eight years reign at the White House. If they had made the effort they could have had hiscontider.ee and his friendship. Another lime, if the chance offered, he trusted that they would not make the same mistake. Objections to Grant. I Boston Herald. Besides the objections to General Grant on account of tbe character of his previous administration, there is a widely prevalent and deep-ceated prejudice in this country against overstepping tbe unwritten law of tne land which has heretofore limited the president to two terms. Many rtople would look upon such a departure from tbe custom, of the country as a perilous thing. Tbe bare idea that tbe interests of tbe Republic depend upon any one man ia not a pleasant one to contemplate. In every way . It seems to us. General Grant would not be the strong est candidate to go before the people with. out ne may ne me strongest in tne convention. One thing is evident the Republican party decreased when General Grant was president, and it has increased since he went out of office. We fail to see any reason to suppose that his re torn would increase or even maintain its strength. The Greateot Question Before the Amerinta t-eopie. New York 8nn. The general who wilfully blind- himself to tbe strength of the enemy is to be accounted among the most foolish of men. in politics, as in war. tbe true policy is to justly estimate tbe contending forces and to see things as they actually exist The elections which have just taken place in several States show conclusively such an augmenta tion ot .Republican strength as to render altogether probable that tbe Republicans will be sble to elect their candidate for president -next year. The greatest question tbe one great question now before tbe country become, who that candidate shall be. It is not, by any means, a mere considera tion ol personal preferences or personal antipathies. One new and threatening element ia brought into the choice. Mr. Conkling, we suppose. Is out cf tbe question. At the latest account? he wss suffering severely from a chill, and tbe people experience a chronic chill toward him. Either Mr. Sherman or Mr. Blaine could probably be elected. Bat some Republicans insist on running Grant. Electing a president a third time would be an innovation on the customs of the country, established by the Revolutionary fathers an innovation ot the most alarming character, and menacing the overthrow of our free institutions and the establishment of a monarchy. Graut has already enjoyed all the civil honors and more than the military honors conferred npon George Washington, the Father ot his Country, tint vtasuicgion was modest and retiring, while Grant ia pushing, ambitious, selfish, gra&plng. Should Grant be nominated, the patriotic feeling against a third term might yet enable the Democracy, if guided by wise and conciliatory counsels, and thus amalgamat ing with themsetvea tbe best elements oi tne Republican party, to elect their own candidate. -Anybody, everybody a?aint Grant is the motto of true and enlightened patriotism. Preserving Pumpkins. lOermantown Telegraph. : . Pnmnkipi atHitrtta.fi trt AnlitiSl-v Dtirnosea w ara voara r. aava "i J w.. - f H uia iUIIUWiuj ,uuiiiisi . u a----." longer than may be desired. Bat for winter a pumpkin pie is not excelled for dellclousness by any other, it the cook knows as well how to make them as every one should. Some persons use it also as a sauce, and it ia a very good rauca if properly prepared. When we were in tbe habit of pieservuig the pumpkin we selected tbe "Yankee Squash," A it was called, but other good kinds will, no doubt, answer as well. These we placed on a s-aafiolding put up in the eUar, allowing them to lie" side by side, but only in a single layer. We ued them as needed through tbe winter, and found that from a dozen to a dcscn and a half were ample to supply the family as long as we cared for tbem. On two occasions we kept one or two over to discover how long they ttou'.d keep, and we found them in good condition in August, but that was about the end of their time. - - - ,v ' Why Skidd Didn't Dine With Him. The editor of the Fort Plain Regit ter has bis office and residenc- connected by telephone. On Monday Mr. Skidd, of Little Falls, an old friend, called on the editor and expected to remain for dinner. The editor hurried to tbe telephone and shouted to bis wife: "Mr. Skidd will be up wilt me to dinner; lay an extra plate." "Now," said tbe editor, "Mr. Skidd, you may converse with her." As the gentleman was about to approach the instrument these words were plainiy heard: "You tell Mr. fckidd we don't keep a hotel on wash-day." Mr. Skidd excused himself for a few momenta, and was next seen eating fried clams in the Rainbow saloon on the corner. The right thing in the right place is with, out doubt Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, the best remedy for babies while teething. Piioaaf