Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 September 1872 — Page 3

SELF-CONDEMNED.

'Out of their Own Mouths are They Adjudged Guilty." 4 j rant Indicted nnd Condemned by Ills Own Party. Tbc Philadelphia Platform a Confession of the Failure of his Administration . From the Oolilrn Ago. The severest commentary that can be matlr on ti; failure of Orant's first term of the Presidency is the platf rm on which ho (tends lor re-election. Every important promise which that platform puts forth for the lutur is a confession of the Administration's dereliction in the paat. Each successive pledge made st Philadelphia turns State's evidence to convict the very candidate in whose behalf it was made. Examine BOOM of the points. !. Grant's platform demands a reform of the civil esrvme. Why, then, bss not his Administration already given us this reform? The President has been in power three anil a half years nearly one wtiolo term. During this perind he has always had a working majority in DJth houses ot Congrcas at his daily c imman-1. Indeed sometimes this majority has exhibited toward him the subserviency of lickspittles. They have been only too prompt to do hit bidding. Have they' not made is dace nt haste to confirm his brothers in-law, his nephews, his uncles, his wife's relations, and all the host of his nepotiatjc appointments? Were they not quick to catch his wink and obey his beck for the re moval of Charles Sumner from the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations? Did they not submissively bend their knees with the President's in a com mos and ignominious surreuder to England ? When has he failed of tbeir votes fur any purpose, good or bad? Never! Why then does his arty go to Philsdelphis and through the unanimous mouth of a packed c invention demand civil service reform? Of whom do they demand it? 01 themselves. What thoughtful citisen, therefore, can help asking, Why have they not already inaugurated civil service reform? Whst excuse can they give for having delayed it? ilow ean they ever apologise lor the crime of having thus far thwarted it? Whst will they ssy of their own orator, Gen. Butler, for denouncing it? Outof their own mouths are they sdjudgsd guilty. They are selfcondemned. II. Grant's platform demands the abolition of the franking privilege. Why, then, have his partisans in Congress systematically voted againxt the abolition ofthe franking privilege? Have they not had the fairest of opportunities to accomplish this reform? It tbey had been in earnest to schieve this triumph, they could have done it at any time within the last three years. To say n w that the franking privilege ought to be abolished is simply to indict the President and his friends for not having abolished it long ago. Here again they are self-condemned. III. Grant's platform asserts State rights. Why, then, has he systematically violate 1 State rights? Why have we had for three years an unbroken eerie of intrusions by the Federal Government into local affairs? Why, for instance, has it besn the practice of Mr. T homes Murphy and the ew York Custom Ilonse to give laws to the Syracuse Convention? Why has the Federal Government aided and abetted the alien and car-net-bag governments in the Southern 8lates, the like of which for rottenness has never been matched in cur history save oy the Tammany King? Why has the Administration conveniently thrown out the votes of three or four, four or five, five or six counties in some of these States at its sovereign pleasure in order to keep its own partisans in power? State rights, forsooth! These have never been so flagrantly violated, as by Orant and his party. To say now that these rights should be maintained is only to say that they have been well-nigh destroyed. And the party that thus pretends to maintain them is the very party that has been sedulously destroying ti t in. After three years of this destruction the President and his partisans have now the effrontery to declare themselves in favor of what they have annihilated. Such cul rita are self-condemned. IV. Grant's platform asks for eneousrgement to shipbuilding. Why, then, his h's Administratien done nothing for American commerce except to cripple and repress it? Why are American merchants doing but thirty-six per cent, ol their own csrrying trade leaving the remaining sixty-four per cent, to fall as a precious pri.se to focjign flags? The Administration has had nearly tour years in which to blot out this disgrace. Why is its pitiful record concerning our maritime prospects reduced to a specious promise that, though the Government hat done nothing to promote ship-budding during the isst four years it will try to remedy this neglect during the next term? The Philadelphia statement of the decay of our commerce is the Administration's confession of its own misgovern ment. The Presidsntand his re-norolnationists are witness bearers against their own delinquency. They are self-condemned. V. Grant't platform demands that American citizens in foreign lands shall be protected in their just rights. Why, then, has he, in an unhappy number of signsl and flagrant esses, suffered American citizens abroad to be outraged without protection, and indicted without redress? X distinguished Union General exclaimed with great indignation a few days ago, " Tho safest act which any foreign Government can now commit is to hang an American citisen." He was partly right. No. it is not enough that tbo President should promise in a campaign document that American citizens traveling iu other count ies are hereafter to be protected ; he :uist also give answer why they have not heretofore been protected. His platform writers have here again innocently confessed themselves guilty. Thoy sro eelfondeinned. VI. tirants's platform demands that sympathy should be extended to foreign nations struggling for liberty. This is a bid for the Fenian and Cuban vote. But has tie Administration, up to this time, ever shown any sympathy either with Fonians or Cubans? And if it is to show such tympathy in future will it not prove itself guilty for not having done so in tho past? Its own declaration of duty in this respect is tho plainest possible proof thnt this duty (if it he such) has been left undone. Tho President end his party are once more self-corn! enine l. VII. Grant's platlo'rm sayi that tho public lands should not be squandered.

Why then have bii friend reirularlv avud

laviamy squau ere 4 them V Let any re II. ', in ir student of our country's condition eon. suit the records of the Department of tiio Interior, and scrutinise the enormous ..nd astounding table of recent Und grants for railroad corporations! The Union and Central Pacific have had 3&,J0t),A(K acres; the SiouxC'ty and 1'ueile, 6,hOu,0(i ; tbe Central Branch ol UmwiPacific, IW,O0U,00O; theKorthern Pacific, 47,000,000; the Atlantic and Pacific, 23,330,000; the Southern Pacific in California, 18,O00,t00 ; making for the vsrioui Pacific Roada s total Isnd-grant of 148,00 ,- 000 acres! Now, wiihout stopping to discuss the rigbtfulniii or wrungfulsesa of granting Government lands to railroads, what shall be said of the monstrous aelf-itul 1 1 ligation of a pol tical party that declares against suon land grants, baring i tacit been guilty of making them to the colossal sum total of 150,000,000 acres I Wa repeat, the President and his Convention are self-condemned. VIII. Grant's platform nu'.a forth a p! atitude concerning the proper supremacy of tne civil over tne military power. Why then has thPresidentao persistently and defiantly elevated the military over the civil? Why did he make an unauthorized aud illegal use of the navy in a warlike act against llayti ? Why has he in direct defi ano of a civil atatute surrounded himself with military instead of civil secretaries? Why, iu equal violation of law, is his son, an army oftio r, now absent f om duty in a foreign land pursuing the pleasure excursion Irom which a lieutenant (even though a President's son) is lo bidden by the very regulations of the aervice T Why did the President's brothr-io-law, a Custom House oifioer in New Orleans, employ a Federal vessel with bayonets, with military menace and threat of bloodahed, to overawe the civil functionaries of a State Government? Why did the psiriotio Governor of Illinois fini it necessiry to repel snd resist the Federal encroachim ntofa military President who sent troops into that Slate for purposes at war with its civil snd local law? Why was an attempt lately made in Congress, and partially luccesalul, to give the President power to suspend the habeas corpus, to clutch the State machinery of the elective frsnchise, and to re-elect himself by the help of marticl law T If Grant snd bis body guard at Philadelp i ia profess that thscivil power should be supremo over the military, then by their act- they believe their words. lie und bis brigade are sol f condemned. Now let the preceding cicatona be well pondered. They commute a series of indictments which President Grant's platlorm makes against hia own Administration. Tbey are the voluntary and unanswerable confessions of the failure of tht Adminis tration, even allowing it best friends to be the judge in its own case. It is the Presi dent put under condemnation by h s own party nay more, or s President and his party mskings joint and unanimous testimony against themselves. They are selfcondemned. Nothing remains, therefore, but that they should be condemned by the people. THE LOUISVILLE FARCE. A Oelrsate Telia Monir t awlenannt Triitli The .Movement Kaacesraared and Promoted by the (irnatllee. An unfortunate rent in the Bourbon hag at Louisville has let out a large Grant cat, and. although the most desperate efforts were made to secure the animal, it evaded the pursuit and isnow at larpe. That there was an animal of the circulars of Postmaster Edmunds, and the general fact that, if the delegates, so-called, had not had help fi win the Grant campaign fund, they would not bave had money enough to pay the expenses of the affair ; hut the public now has had the first opportunity to get a good look at the animal. The injunction of Wilbur F. Storey, to "keep damphoola off the convention, " has evidently been disregarded, and so the cat got out of the bag. The farce at Louisville began with violence and ruffianism. Its chief fugleman began with a fist-fight at the Gait House. George Francis Train, who certainly had as much right there as any one else, had to get out of the crowd to avoid personal violence. The Labor Reformers were unceremoniously ejected. The gag was applied to all delegates who were suspected of preferring Greeley to Grant, and among them was Fisk Conrad, of Tyrone, Pa FUk Conrad did not relish the operation, and in revenge he untied the bag and let out the cat- The development which he has made concerning the Pennsylvania delegation will apply, in the general facta, to all the delegations, and tell the story of the Louisville fiaeco clearly ana completely. All of the Pennsylvania delegation, except himself, he says, were Grant men, not o: e of whom intended to vote lor the nominees of the convention. Their transportation to Louisville was paid by the Grant party, Fisk Conrad himself procuring tickets for six, in the office of the Grant State Central Committee at Philadelphia, upon the order of Sypes, Cfiairman of the Bourbon State Central Committee of Pennsylvania. The order was accepted and cashed by Mackey, the Grant State Treasurer, who has been convicted, in complicity with Yerkes and Hartranft, the Cameron ctndidateor Governor, of speculate insr, in Ht.tte fund". The band of music that accompanied tho delegation was paid for by the same parties, and the banner which the Bourbon delegation hore did service in the Philadelphia Convention in designating the seats occupied by the Grant delegation. This disclosure throws a flood of light on many details of this convention. Chicago Tiibuue. CARD FROM FISK CONRAD. The following card from Mr. Conrad teils the story in full To the True Democracy of the United States: Reprosenling the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania in the convention assembled in the city under Iks call of Ulanton Duncan, I made several st tempts today in the convention to be heard. This was denied me, and in the most discourteous manner by the President, who hi ins.'l I occupied at leaat two hours in a foolish gasconade about Dickens' Dolly Varden. My object was to expose the treachery of the Canvrou-Hartranlt thioves of my own State. The Pennsylvania delegation was composed of all Grant men excepting myself, ut one of whom ever intended to yote for '.he nom ince of this convention. Their transportation to this convention was obtained and paid for by the Grant people. My owi and

those of fi ve others, eaeh representing a Die

tru:t id Pennsylvania, I procured is tbe office of the Grant State Central Committee ot Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, corner of r"n' ana nainui streets, over a Weilknown tailoring establishment. Fur this trausp rtatitm I bad au order from ypee, Chairman of the Bourbon Vinte Central Com mitten of Pennsylvania. That order was obeyed by the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, Bob Mackey, who is well-known as onenl Cameron's subjects. The bsnd of music that accompanied us wss furnishel and paid for by the same Grant people, and our little banner that was carried by Georgs Mountjoy is the same that designated the seats in the Radical Convention of the 5th of Juno of the Pennsylvania delegation that nominated Grant, and which was presided over by Thomas Settle, the rebel of North Carolina. This is tbe sum and substance of what I intended to ssy, bad tbe President allowed me to proceed, and now I assure all of my Democratis friends who may chance to see thij communication, that what I have stated here are facts, all of which I am prepared to prove. W. Fisa Cos bad. Seventeenth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. JOHNSON VS. (KANT. Their Administrations t'osnsared-Whleh has keen ttie Meat Corrupt f After the terrible Andrew Johnson had swung round the circle it was held by tbe virtuous Radicals that office corruption was at its height, and no offices were supposed to be more corrupt and expensive than those of the Internal Itevenue establishment in 1860-7. This great abuse was to be reformed hy the Grant Administration. The following table will show how unblusbinclv the swindle was not only not reformed but actually increased by the present Ad ministration. In 1806-7 there were about 1,100 small and large aiticles subject to internal revenue tax, which brought $265,920,4(4.65 revenue. In 1871 there were but ten specialties left for taxation, which brought $144, 011,176.24. The cost of collection in the several States was in the two periods as tollown :

sf SOsgS M? III Ii J-Z Efcsi 3f L5-5' --I! Us : . Z 2 m ! 0I : 'S2 i' e ; J c ; hsm ' 15 i N S T jwss : . i t i Alabama'. I 42 5W 92 69 UUU M7 p. e. Arkansas 6.911.00 49.000 89 p. c. District of Col-1 ttsabia 14 032.23 17.000 ! 22 p. e. Illinois IW.VjUW 275,.O0 51 p. c. Indiana 12S.0Ö6.Ö 161000 31 p c. Iowa 55.528.49 1 74 500 36 p. c Totals 1 144 2.617 97 1 W.00O

Increase of expenditure for administering in the shove six States the internal revenue by Grant in 1871-2 over that by Johnson in 18fi6-7, $194,382.03. In other words, the present Administration, in order to purify corruptions and reduce the expenditures of the extravagant Johnson's Administration, found it necessary to increase the cost by an average of nearly 42 per cent. Here is a study for civil-service George William which we invite him to con template. Neto l'ork World. GRANT'S BKKF-EATEHS AGAIN. The War Iher Praetlee Keferas and Kraammf la ear t'usioia-lleaaes-Same Qaeer Flsjaree. England had her rotten boroughs. We have our rotten custom-houses. But there is this difference between England and ourselves, that when tbe rotten-borough system did prevail there was no Tory in the land so brazen as to maintain that tbe party upholding it were economical or great reformers, while with us the very upholders of the rotten custom-houses are traveling all over the United States, spouting on ev y stump, vaunting in every newspaper of their party, the great reforms they have inaugurated and the economy they practice. Here is an example of their reform. Albemarle, in S'orth Carolina, is a port of entry a very modes', port. The total foreign commerce of Albemarle during the calendar year ending December 31, 1871, was : Imports 1336 Exports II To superintend this foreign trade of Albemarle, amounting iu the aggregate to $336, it required the following officials : Sitary. nrfual Offic ial. eot fu r 1 871 . 1 collector 1 91 58 1 drnutv collector and clerk 1 WK) Oi) 1 deputy collector. MHO 00 1 deputy collector 1.095.00 2 boat hands 480 00 1 coast inspector 365.00 Total NklNJi The figures are official, and the above expenditure was actually incurred during 1S71 to take care of a total commerce amounting to $386. Now, we simply nsk who should be more ashamed a whole people for being subjected to such a rotten swindle, or an Administration that boasts of reform nnd economy allowing it to go on for tbe three years that they are in power? Apalachicola in Florida is a wellknown seaport town, but unfortunately it has no commerce to speak of. The total foreign commerce of Apalachico!a during the calendar year ending 1 S7 1 was as follows : Isnporta Nil Klorts 12.349 To take care of this immense foreign trade of Apalachicola it required the following staff, receiving the following salaries i OlHri h. p.iifinH7l. One collector 11.200 One deputy collector 1 460 Four boatmen Total N Mt Was there ever a greatei swindle, a greater farce, perpetrated in any country ? Hero is a port having no import for which mainly, if not wholly, a 'ciiHtom-boueo m necessary and whose whole export was $2,34D, requiring a collector, a deputy collector, and four

boatmen, when the postmaster of the

place, who is a federal revenue officer, might easily have signed the outward manifest of the $2 349 worth of goods exported. But if for a moment it should bo supposed that the two collectors and four boatmen were necessary to prevent smuggling, we have to inform our readers that besides the abovo there is stationed a revenue cutter in Apalachicola to look after that business, and the expenses were as follows in 1871 i Four oncers revenue cutter Petrel 8 .ij Seamen 3.liio Ana sis light-house keepers MW Total 11.97 Now, we cannot fairly object to the services of the Petrel and the lighthouse keepers ; they no doubt do their duly and earn their puy ; but we denounce the custom-house expenses iu Apalachicola as an impudent swindle. New York World. A Beautiful Incident. The intelligent horse very often sympathizes with animals in distress. About a year ago, a dog was set upon by a crowd of cruel boys, and pelted with sticks and stones. The poor dog bad given no offense, but this mattered not. He tried to escape from his tormentors, and had nearly succeeded in doing so, when a stone hurled with great violence struck him on tbe fore-leg, bruising the flesh and fracturing the bone. The animal howled piteously, but none of bis persecutors went to his relief. Having injured him, they turned carelessly and coldly away, and left him to hia fate. The dog limped into the stable of Kr. Edward Kilpatritk, moaning piteously. In one' of the stalls of the stable was a well bred young horse of more than ordinary intelligence. The distress of the dog seemed to move the heart of the horse to pity. He bent bis head, caressed the canine, and carefully inspected the broken leg. Then with his forefeet he pushed some clean straw into one corner of his stall and made a soft bed on which the dog was induced to lay himself down. A close and affectionate intimacy was at once established between the horse and the dog. Tbe horse was being largely fl on bran mash, and one day when receiving his feed, thinking the dog might be hungry, the equine bowed his head, ca ight the canine gently hy the fkin of the neck, and with the te th ufted him into the trough or box. The dog fell to with a hearty will, which showed that his hunger was great, and that his gratitude was equal to his appetite. Days and weeks passed, and the dog and horse continued firm friends. The bran mash fed them both, and the invalid grew strong and fat on the wholesome diet. At night the two animals thus strangely brought together slept in the most loving manner. The horse would arrange a eoft bed for the dog, and then lay down nnd tenderly encircle the canine form with one of his forelegs. It is seldom that such a beautiful and authentic incident i brought to our notice. The horse showed for the unfortunate more of that feeling which we term humanity than did the dozen lusty youths, who were presumed to walk in the image of their God. Nay, it took the poor victim of man's persecution to its heart and home, and tenderly nursed the same back to strength and health. We claim to be practical, rather than sentimental, still we cannot resist the thought that the horse revealed more evidences of a divine spirit than did the rude boys who receive credit for having immortal souls. While they reviled and persecuted, he played the part of the good Samaritan ; and in doing so he developed a power of thought and intelligence too broad to occupy the contracted sphere, of what we commonly call instinct. The horse reasoned, and then acted like a Christian. Turf, Field and Farm. Marshal Bazaino. A private letter from a prominent French military officer to a friend in New York city, intimates strongly that Bazaine is very likly to be condemned to death, for infidelity to duty, by the court marshal which is now trying him. The idea of executing a man like Bazaine, who has distinguished himself by as fine a military record as any man now living in France, is a repugnant onf . His surrender of Metz may possi bly have been injudicious. Gen. Sherman, who has been studying the situation, says that in the first place he should never have permitted himself to be shut up there. But Baaaino1 patriotism, however weak his judgment may have been, requires the strongest kind ot evidence to impugn. He is 61 years of age, and has been an officer in the Erench army for over forty years. When only 25 years old he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor on the field of battle. He has been engaged in all the French wars during his time, and advanced steadily in rank and reputation. He distinguished hirmeit especially in tho Mexican expedition, which had such a tragic termination, and in consequence was made Marshal of France. We know not what evidence has been brought against him, but should lie be sentenced to death a general feeling of reitret will prevail everywhere. France has spilled enough blood already. Happy Texas. Texas papers say that the reports from the crops in all part- of Texas are really glorious. Thw corn crop is unparalleled. The cotton it magnificent everywhere, the worm hating done no damage as yet, and it will conn be too late for them to hurt tho crop. There will oe more than can bo gathered. Every other crop is equally tine potatoes, peas, beans, oats, ry-", bailey, wheat, hay, fodder, pecans and the tnat whioh fatten hogs without corn is absolutely immense.

Foreign UesHip. Jcrl'salem has been lighted with gas, an I it is proposed to run street ears up tbe slope of Mount Zion. The clesw annual profits of tie great iron manufacturing Scotch bouses of the liairds is said to be $2,500,000. Mr. Coxwell, the English aeronaut, has bugaestod the idea of searching for Livinghtoue and succoring bun through the med. um of a balloon. An Engliah court has recently decided that the presence of ghoats in a house is a sufficient reason for annulling the contra between landlord and tenant. Tue Bishop of Gloucester, England, has been making himself very unpopular by opposing higher wages to agricultural laborers, on the ground that increased wages increased drunkenness. A ct nous directory is announced for Paris, consisting, in elshabetical order, ofthe names of all peibous who have been declared bankrupt, separated (MM their wives, or convicted in the courts, since 1848. Thifrs riies at 4 o'clock in the morning; writes an hour in bis book; at 6 o'clock enteis Iii Secretary, Andrieux, with 700 letters, which can neither be thrown in the waste-basket nor answered without consultation. Hepple Hall, of England, somewhat notorious both in England and Americ as a traveler, now volunteers to go where Livingstone is supposed te be, and to follow him up and remain with him until the old man is ready to come home f any one will pay his expenses. Tue whole of the troops of Northern Germany are now supplied with the improved needle gun. The weapon ia said to be more simple in its mechanism than the old arm, will allow of from seven to ten shots per minute being fired, and has a range of over 1,300 yards. The greatest murder known in Japan for years was committed in Yeddo six weeks ago, by twelve polioemen, who entered a merchant's house, killed its eleven inmates, and carried off $14.000. The twelfth member of the family, a little boy, saved himself by creeping into an iron pot, and he identified four of the policemen in court. All of the murderers were arrested, tried, convicted and shot. E.voLisn financial authorities report that the recent failure of Gladstone Ac Co. and other houses in London and Liverpool have had the effect of depressing consols and causing a general feeling of insecurity. The failures are directly attributed to attempts to corner certain products, such as cotton and grain, as was done in Chicago by certain grain firms, and in New York by the gold brokers. If so, the revulsion is of a sporadic, not general, character.

The French Pigeon Corps. A u colombophile" is only a pigeonfancier but one of them is preparing for a remarkable experiment, if we may believe tbe following statement in In t ! i t.? . Ut fir r i t i

uioerie, oi x ans i - ax. aoo (- ia narre, a celebrated Belgian colombophile, hae proposed to the French Government the formation of a corps of pigeons With a view to service in the next campaign against Germany. It is ruggested that a staff of pigeon-trainers be at once organized at the Jardin des Plantes, and several gentlemen who distinguished themselves as pigeon flyers during the late war are named as suitable members. The pigeon corps, which it U proposed should number 25,000 birds, would have its headquarters at Paris ; but in view of a pojsible reinvestment of the capital, an entire division would be stationed at Bordeaux. Armies in the field would, of course, be accompanied by pigeons, and it is recommended that pigeos from Paris should, on the outbreak of war, be pent in detachments averaging 1, "00 strong to each ofthe principal 'ortfMMt. n i

Why It Has Heen So Hot. The past summer has been characterized by unusual heat- in almost every part oif the northern world, and all classes of philosophers, the weather wise especially, have .been at their wits' end to account for it. Prof. Tacchini has been making direct inquiries at beadquarteni, and has received the most satisfactory explanation. By means of .- pect rum observations and other carefully conducted experiments, he has discovered that for some time past our great luminary, the sun, has been throwing off immense and unusual volumes of magnesium gas from all parts of its surface. Magnesium is one of the most inflammable and fiercely burning substances in nature, when once set a-going, and the explanations of Prof. Tacchini settle the whole matter. When the thermometer falls, it may safely be concluded that the supply of magnesium in the sun's atmosphere is diminished. The Striking Mania. Who will strike next? Grave diggers have reported tbeir grievance and struck for high v wages nnd shorter davs' work ; clergymen have felt it their duty :o resist a wholesale demand of ilnir time, especially in fhe matter of funerals : nnd now, nt Malaga, 'he stuilenM have been seised with the cpiI domic, have joined the gns work striken, though why they should thus ally I themselves is 9 mystery, but they liaro ' done o. and placarded the college wails with a list of their injuries. Qftd say tbt v can only return peacefully to ! ibe p it'ha of wiitrom nnd learning when their hours of labor shall be rfdueod to six. Mr. Skward's " TraVeli Around tbe World'' will ooe be out.