Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 November 1872 — Page 3

GRANTISM IN ARKANSAS.

Radical Registrars at Work Disfranchising White Citizens.

How Men are Bobbed of the Right to Vote Upward of Thirty Thousand Whites Disfranchised.

futon Uounly (Ark.) Ci. New York Trilinne.

It may interest many of your readers to know how registration im managed in thin

down-trodden State, and how every means is brought hear to make the State cast its

rote for flraut aud Ihm representative carpet

baKKarH at "R' eimttinu election. Itegistration in thi county commenced l.i-t week, and the

writer being appointed a United Ktates Super

vi-or f Election, attendeil the registration at

the two rot in a dihm in ins township, i wan

appointed to represent the interoHts of the Conservatives, and on the 17th attended the

registry held at my own place of roHidence. To nay that I wax surprised at what was done would expiees in no roped my feelings. I had no idea that open fraud would be so unbltuhlBgljF practiced, and that question after question, for none of which was there any authority of law, would he asked of men who would cither have to perjure themselves or be tlenied tho di-arest right of freemen. The questions, as ivell utt I recollect, were an follows : 1. Did yon ever hold any civil orhee before (tie war, sue h a magistrate, road overseer, captain of patrol, Ac? 'L Did you over belong to an oi ionization known as " The Knight of the Wliito Cimeha," or to the " Ku-Klux Klan t" 3. Did you veto for or agate it the ordinance of secession '( 4. Did you voluntarily furnish supplies, arm or ammunition to tiie Confederacy?'" 5. Did you vote for or agaitixt the ratification of the Constitution of 1SÖ7? 6. Did you, dining the Rebellion, belong to any independent military command? The answer to all these questions bad to be sati.-factorv to the registrar or tho applicant was donicu registration. In consequence of the answer made to the iiit question, many uf our best citizens were not allowed to register, for every one of us that lived in the State before the war. and that wan of any standing in society, tilled someone of the numerous

omfes uietirionen auove. iioaa oveiseer is particularly grievous, for It was an uuthaukfill otlii-e, and hieb could uot bo declined except by the payment of a heavy tine. The answers to the second question disfranchised even more than those to the first, for in this section "The Knights of the White Canieiia" had a large lodge. What tho organization was, I know not. but, judging from the men that belonged to it for its existence ceased several years ago I do not think that it could have tended." in the language of the registrar, "to tiie subversion of law aud order." The answers to the remaining questions were bv no means explicit. Men DOOM uot remember, aud, as one of them said, "I have tu

memoranda to refresh my memory and cannot swear to the facts." Our people are very much enraged, yet hey are a law-abiding people, and will not do anything that may be construed into a violation of the law of the laud. We suffer enough, day after day, in seeing the corrupiiou aud plundering that in openlv earned OB; but when election approaches, and we -e a little carpet-bagger bent around among us one that ban no interest in common with the people and at bis arbitrary will our best citizens are refused registration, the load becomes almost teo heavy to bear. Two years ago, in the adjoining couu y. a fellow uf tho same stamp was seilt around as registrar, and when the lawwas about to tnke hold of him under the previsions of tho Enforcement act, be packed bis carpet-sack and left for parts unknown. It looks as if the same game is to be played in this coiintv, for those appointed first as t iltMM, baring property in the county not ea-ily convertible into cash, prevailed on C. C. Woodford, the present registrar, to undertake the dutv. Those wnose right to vote, in our opinion, is undoubted, will vote on affidavits, under the late act of C ongress, and we hope by that means we may be able to change the täte of affairs, aud even compel some of the scoundrels to answer at the bar of justice for their fra'ids. At our preemet, out of G7 whites. H) were denied registration; at the adjoining precinct, out of 122 whites. 51 were refused, in conclusion, as representing the people, for 1 have been iequestcd to write you, I stay that

WV. look to tue sounU common sense conservatism of the North for our help. We can do nothing of ourselves, but, accepting the issue of the war and the amendment to the Constitution in good faith, we only demand "equal rights and liberties to all men before the law," even if they were so unfortunate as to have formerlv been rebels.

rroa tu ew fork World

WEST riHolMt AND ABKANSAS.

In 1W5S the total vote of West Virginia was

o,ov. train carrying tue mate by a luaioritv

ui o,rTj. in iniu, wueu uiH reiorni move

ment winch began in Mismouii was sweeping over the country . West Viru ikia cast a total rote of M,C07, ihe opposition to Radicalism

arrying tue state bv a inaiontv of 2.123. Hr 1... T T ....... I kj.A - 7 " . ... .

iuo uuiiou nuirs census taken in this latter year the population of the Stute was 4U.014, and at the ordinary ratio of voters to popula

tion wjtj mist vote snouid have beeu about

ip.uuu instead or 35.000 .,, it was. Tiie occa

Bion or this discrepancy was the infamous

system or disfranchisement incorporated in the West Virginia Constitution at the time

the state was organized to assist the Uadical nartv bv introdiieiiiir h r,.n,f, ,,,..,,( ......

much needed in 18 in the United States Senate. On the auti-proscriptiouist rictory Of 1870 the uew Legislature proceeded to do away with this disfranchisement, and as a result of this step we rind the total vote of the State at the election on the ltd of August last 81.402, an increase of some 25.0OO over that polled in ls7t. It has often beeu asserted, and as often deuied bv ltadieals. that from 20,000 to 25.000 men were disfranchised in West Virginia, but in riew of these figures it can no longer be controverted that the State was held so long for tho Radical party simply and solely by a sweeping aud most iniquitous system of partisan disfranchisement. Happily that is a'l over now, and West Virginia is safe now i;i aerrün mmilorum for the cause of honesty aud good government ; but it is as well to put on record how Grant received the electoral vote of this Sttte in 1SGH, and especially is this in point when we remember that Arkansas to-day is where West Virginia wa a year or so aan. No one doubts

thatArkanuas is an anti-tirantStatewho knows

that its population bv tbe census of 1H70 was

863.118 white ami ULMS negroes, or about 80,980 Democratic and Conservative Vetera and 20.000 Republican. That with this overwhelming preponderance of tho white votes tbe State is as fully negroized as South Carolina will not seem wonderful when the svstem

of proscription aud disfranchisement which is in force id considered. To have held anv

office before the war, even that of road in

spector or justice of the peace, to have fur

nished supplies to the Confederacy, to have roted against the reconstruction 'meaure. are sutlioieiit to disfranchise anv ttersoti

id if none of these or numberless' other like

objections lie. the registrars are allowed on

the broad, general ground of their own

knowledge or judgment to refuse registration.

! urther still, while the weight of the four

teenth amendment has neeu lifted bv act of

Congress from all but specified classes, aud while even in its worst estate that measure

only debarred from office, it is still in full force in Arkansas so far as to disqualify from voting all who are under its original terms. Owing to thrse causes the total Aikansas vote, which should le some 80,000. was at the laut election but 53.679. These are the lowest figures, for it is stated on excellent authority that 31.00!) persons were disfranchised in 1870, but we will take it that the total is but 26.000. All these are, of course, disfranchised simplv and solely because they oppose Grant. Could they approach the ballot-box thev would swell the Democratic rote to 54.000. and buiv out of sight the Republican vote of 88,080 which now controls tba State. Arkansas's six electoral rotes would go against Grant, and two Demcratice Senators and four Congressmen come up to Washington to aid in a purer management of public affairs. To forbid this we have 20,000 men robbed of their rotes.

in a time of pece ? Do yoo not think. General, that these assemblies of soldiers for the purpose of p.ifec'mg our elections hare become slightly nauseating to the public f Did it ever occur to you that, aa a rule, the officers most active in work of tin nature wer most unsuccessful in tbe field ? Permit me, m conclusion, to ear that I do not believe that in rour action at Pitial.nrh

or in the sentiments of tbe addraaa to which I

nave aiuided, you are in any sense of the word a repreaeutatire of the real soldiers of the army. On the contrary, I feel that rerr many of them unite with nie in the hope that this political campaign, in which yon seem to have assumed the position of commander, mav nroTe to vou and to in ,.t

00aad another Fredericksbursr.

ery truly yours. fj. W Siocr.

A REAL SOLDIER OX BCB5SIDE.

mr. i Kirns of 1870 thoisanps or Ram ShCRtTLV sTOOim FlioM THE BGOISTRV LlsTS 4ti,0U0 CITIZENS UI.MI.ti THE BALLOT. T Hm K.titor ot tlK-Tribsnt: Sir: Our attention has just been called to an article copied from the New York Time, in winch it is stated that " no man is pre

vented now from voting anywhere in the United States on account of having taken part in the rebellion." In denying this statement, the Tribun has uot stated the cae as strongly as the facts warrant. We feel that the people of the great North are nnt informed as thev should be (.and both the above statement ami its denial would eeeni to itidirate this) in regard to this most interesting scrap of American history. Permit tho undersigned, of all political parties, to call your attention to the following facts . The late ceusus of the United States show that there are in Arkansas 102.000 (round tmnibers) males over the age of 21 years. The Secretary of State reports that in registering these in 1870, 81,000 were excluded, hile onlv 10,000 were permitted to vote. The whofc number of ditfrauchised was, therefore, 40.000, nearly one-half of the votHtt population. lit this county, out of 2,700 (round numbers) voters, only 1,382 wore permitted to Vote, the Hoard of Review having in their closet stricken ofT several hundred names wlioni they had permitted to register, and without notice until election day. These " scratched" voters, on earning to the polls 0 vote, were told, for tho first time, that they wero stricken off tho list. Thus it was tha't 71,000 were registered in the State out of 102.000, and only 50,000 were permitted to yote. No one estimates the number really disfranchised by the Constitution at more "tan 10,000 -most of whom did not apply to register tho other 30,000 were " scratched." or arbitrarily refused, as provided in tho law. ion will understand, from the above figures, why it was that the Senate Committee who investigated tho "Clayton frauds," sat with closed doo-s, and have not vet furnished the imMic with the testimouy taken before them, "hat have tbe people of Arkansas to hope toni an Administration which HiiMtniiiH anr-ti

outrace uron the dearest of American

an

right

Very respectfully, etc.,

M. W. fWiu, L-

M- H. Hanuers f H. Spabks. "HN CABNALL. Jons F. WlILLLt.R,

Titos.

John H. Rooms, John Deakel, J. Dt'RNETT, W. F. Dlakkmoue, D. F. Haokett,

Maritu.

Fort Smith, Ark., Sept. 23, 1872.

The ('nmninndrr of rmnn's Left W ins on Ihr Pltlsbarah ( (invention. Crrrlr), and Hurnnlde 1'uscrut Sunrü ion Iron 4irn. Mlomm. Gen. A. E. HlUMIIH De-r General: I have read with great interet your address to tbe soldiers and sailorn who served in the Union army and navy during the late war. As I was one of tbe soldiers alluded to I trust you will not be displeased if I say a few words in response thereto. You tell us that you and others, as our representatives, met" at Pittsburgh and adopted a seiies of resolutions which we have already seen. You com

plain that Mr. Greeley has expressed the opinion that you assembled for political purposes, and that you hoped to accomplish these purposes V.y Mftffaw the animosities and hatreds engendered bv the war. You further say that these remarks of Mr. Greeley aud bis entire lack of courtesy toward the soldiers and sailors serve to confirm you in the opinion that he is quite unti to be'trusted in any position where loyalty to his Government, a Junt regard to the feelings of others, and an abnegation of self is required. You then preceed to inform us in conclusion.

that it only remains for you to urge us to organize in harmony with the regular Republican organization, aud do all in our power to re-elect Gen. Grant. The first thought that occurred to my mind on reading this address was, " What was there in Burnside's military career that justifies him in telling the hundreds of thousands of soldieis who served during uie late war what they should Jo in time of peace ?" Did anything occur at tbe first Bull Run. at Roanokb Island, at Fredericksburg, iu East Tennessee, or at the mine explosion in front of Petersburg, which entitles him to assume command of all of us in time of peace, and order us to the frout to fight iu behalf of a political party ?

My second thought was : " Is it creditable to the soldiers of the late war that one of their nurnbe. should be permitted as their pretended representative to spread broadcast over the laud a document charging Horace Q.-eeley with disloyalty." The truth of the saying that "the pen is mightier than the sword" is coming year by year to be more generally acknow ledged. In riew of the election of Gen. Graut to the Presidencv. aud of

the fact that be is a candidate for re-election, there are probably some men in the country who doubt its truth. If. however, we were to add to the saying the proviso that the pen should be handled by a Greeley and the sword by a Burnside, all doubters would disappear. You and I, General, know full well that while we were m the field fighting for the Union, Mr. Greeley was wielding in behalf of tbe same cause a weapon far more powerful than those used by either of us. We know, too. that long after' we had sheathed our swords lie kopt up the fight, and continued it until every object was accomplished lor which even the most ardent Abolitionist had ever prayed. We did not cease the fight until the Union was restored, and slavery abolished, the blacks enfranchised, and all their civil and political rights solemnly guaranteed to them by amendments to the ('.institution. And yet. General, you have tbe hardihood of charging this man with disloyalty, and are uttering this foolish charge in your assumed capacity as tbe representative of all the Union soldiers of the laud. You say he has been guilty of a lark of courtesy toward us. Iu my judgment, any man who eight years after the close of a bloody civil war will ask soldiers to assemble in convention with a view of controlling their net ion in political matters is a demagogue unworthv of courtesy at the hands of Mr. Greedier or any other person. When at the close of the war we laid down our arms, we became citizens, and we have no interest to-day except those we have in common with all other citizens. Whv, then, should any one ask us, in our character as soldiers, to assemble in political bodies ? Why should vou extend to us such au invitation, unless tt is with the hope that from your former connection with us in the army yon may be able to influence our judgments upon matters of public policy

A Question or Personal Habits. Frois th Stw York Tribune. The Washington correspondent of the Cin

cinnati OemumtTCtmu a man of as unquestioned veracity as there is iu Washington. The Triftuix: has raised r.o question concern

ing l're.-i ! ut Grant's terntil l,l.o- i..

discouraged that sort of discussion, and has

preferred, in so far Ac it could, to restrict the

persouabties of the campaign only to such as seem compelled by the demand for reform. There were enough other irrouuds of obtee-

tiou to the re-election of the present President without pryiug into his private habits ; but in the couise of the controversy cone, rum th

record of the candidate for Vice P

there has beeu some discussion as to whether

he could be trusted to tell the truth, and it is chiefly on this point that the following statement by the correspondent of the ffi

cial. over his own signature, arouses a special interest :

Gen. llovntoil's life must certainly lir

been passed behind a vail if he does uot know that Gran't iutemperauce has been a subject of almost constant gossip in Newspaner-row aud anioug Senators and Representatives. It was a thing that was rarely, if ever, doubted. If it was stated in the pre-euce of auv great frieud of Grant's that the President was driukihi.' heavily, it wau nrelv 1niwl .nH

generally passed without a word. As far as my observation goes, the charge was geuerilly admitted with some charitable words in extenuation. I hesitate to make use of expreesions which were not intended for the public ear (which, however, no obligation of secrecy prevents me from using), but 1 1 there tne pre-ent occasion demands it, and I most earnestly declare that in the rerv office iu which" this letter is written I hare heaid Heury Wileou, the Radical caudidate for Vice Bresideut, declare repeatedly that Grant drinks too much." ' I'm afraid be is drinking toomuch." " Giant ought to stopdnnkiug and smoking." and other expressions, which indicated Heiirv Wilsons opinion that tbe l'rcident was an intemperate man. I should hesitate to ear tins were I the only one to whom like expressions had been made by Senat jr Wilson, for I know tbe denunciation it will arouse on the part of the supporters and defenders of the President, but Mr. Wilson has said the same thing to other geutlemen on Newspaperrow. Do Geti. Grant's supporters want affidavits as to his intemperance? Are they not satisfied with current report and belief ?" Other gentlemen as high in position as Senator Wi'son have frequently complained of the President's incoherence of speech on certain occasions, bis ttupid manner and general behavior as at variance with bis usual conduct, and have mentioned strong drink as the came. On one occasion a sjecial committee of the House of Representatives called on Gen. Grant at the time be was acting Secretary of War on the appointment of Andy Johnson. They desiied to discuss with him a subject which they were investigating and which lslonged to' his department. They found him In such a condition that or.e of the

members, no less a person than the Hon. Glenui W. Scofield. Congressman at Large from Pennsylvania, declared with emphasis. " Mr God ' is it possible that we must make that man our candidate for President ':" A member of the committee related this occurrence to me during the past summer, and said there was no doubt that Grant was intoxicated. If the friends of the President

want mor?proof. perhaps it may be furnished. J udge Scorield would not. in all probability, ccusent to make au affidavit to tbe conditiou iu which be found Grant on tbe visit de

scribed. The Politieal Outlook. Liberal.- and Democrats have every reason to feel encouraged at the political outlook. Notwithstanding the States of Ohio aud Pennsylvania, by means of the lavish expenditure of money, the most stupendous election frauds ever peipetrated in this country, and the powerful influence of a vast army of office-holders, have been made to appear as having recorded their verdict in faror of the perpetuation of the present corrupt Administration in power, tbe pros iects for the elec

tion of Horace Greeley are of tbe most flattering character, and our friends should cot falter in tbe good work, but press forward to victory. The election in Georgia has virtually settled the vote of all the Southern States wherein a clear majority of the electors are whites. Its influence goes eren farther, eince it shows that the negro rote is very far from being solid for Grant. It may now be considered certain that thirtv States will vote aa follows :

reciting that life and property were unsafe in South Carolina, and warning the " insurgents" who had brought about this state of affairs to disperse and retire Jtu'their homes within twenty days. The thing waa ao absurd that the whole eountrr roared at it. and tbe portentous twentieth day the 13th of Aprilcame and weut without further fulmitiation. Everybody thought the farce ended, and tbe impression was deepened br a sort of Gtxlv

Two-shoes announcement made hr Mr. Grant on the I of May to tbe effect that he really, truly, most sincerely honed evervthinir woul.l

continue bright and peaceful and lovely, so

that ne would not be forced to execute tbe

ku-kiux law--which, by the br, bad been passed at bis own urgent and personal solicitation. But the 10th of October, 1871, Ohio

auu renuwyivaina weut Republican, aud two

days thereafter Goody Two-shoes disappears as in a whirlwind, and" with the grunt of a wild bog Mr. Grant rushes forward to say that a most horrible, and bloody-minded rebellion was raging in South Carolina. Fire dava later he proclaims martial law in that unhappy State aud lets loose dragoons, artillery, and infantry upon its wretched people. Folio wing the troops came au infammiM array ot

Jeffreys-like judges, blood-hound attonievs, swift witnesses, and purchased jurors "as black as tar and ignoraut as so many wild Polynesians. For nine weary months this array of military and civil foic'e exercised as coward a violence upo-i a part of the Amen can people as Russia ever used towards downtrodden Poland or England upon the oppresrtd Irishman. In July of this rear there was a let-up. Prosecutions ceased", juries were dismissed, witnesses paid their hire and sent off subject to call, and tbe troois wbj had harried even hamlet at midnight wore withdrawn from tbe chase. It was intimated that a change of heart bad come over the author of

all thu dastardlv violence. He was eren I . . m m ...

wui to paraon some oi nis victims, and a commission was sent to pick out the recipients of this gracious clemency. What was the occasion of thiB snddan cooing and softneet ? In August the North Carolina election impended. It was important to carry it, and a show of mildness it was thought would work as happy results as the Goody Two-shoes proclamation f May. 171. had upon the October elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The election tra carried. North Carolina went Republican, and where are the KuKlux prisoners now ? Pending tbe promised pardon one of them is dead died iu his prison cell with the weight of Lis inDocent blood npen Graut's soul. Tbe others yet languish in their dungeons, more miserable bv baring been promise. 1 delirerance than if they bad never heard of liberation at aB Wtt Tiwl World. Address of the Pennsylvania Liberal State Committee.

following address from the Liberal

PenLsvlvania has been

Far Hreflev. Alabama 1 Arkantaa

.. 8 . 1 . 9 . 35 . 3 . 12 0 . II 11

t.'ounsctirat P'Uware Flor da .... deorsU

Iniliana KDtuck Louisiana, Man laud MiMonri NVw Jntrj Krw fflrib Noada Ts MNMS Ta Til k-iiiia. Weal Virgin. . Total

Leaving still to be seriously contested the following close and doubtful States :

Fo (irmmt. lows Ka: Maine Ma baasMa, - Michigan ,,, .., Mti.li-. Nbraaka Ohio. rVuti-r Iranta. Klio.1 Irian.) South Carolina. Vermont

Toul

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The

State Committee of

issued

To the People of Ptnntylcania : The succassf ul consummation of a measure of fraud iu this city, that must ar pall alike tne guilty authois and their no less guilty respectable abettors, has made Philadelphia appear to have given the unexampled majority of orer 20.000 in favor of continued corrupt rule in Pennsylvania. With every channel of power ready to aid in executing the systematic defiance of the popular will ; with the debauched or 4iaut canvassers to register 25.0O0 fraudulent name ; with the most desperate repeaters of three cities to vote tbe registry, with abundance of money plundered from tbe people to pay them ; with the election officers selected expressly to receive every vote offered in favor of t lie ring j with a police force to pilot repeaters to their localities, and protect them in polling illegal votes : with officers of the law to guarautee their immunity from punishment ; with a large preponderance of our citizens who claim to be tbe champions of morality and reform giving their unqualified sanction to what they

I knew to tie a aeutterateiy pianneJ pollution of the ballot box. the result is but the logical result of the rule that is now supremely enI throned in our city and State. Nor was' this gigantic system of fraud confined to Philadelphia. In the principal cities and towns

throughout the State, thousands of illegal

votes have been p. lied. Tbe Liberal cause

W48 thus overwhelmed iu Reading. Chester. West Chester. Columbia, HArrisbuiv. Pitts

burgh, and other localities, while the rural

districts give large aud unform gains. I am warranted in announcing that the large majority polled for Hart ran tt is wholly fraudu

lent, rneniis oi good government, let no

triumph of lawlessness deter yon frsm girin

your best euergie to the cause. The highest

prerogative of a free people has leen vio-

leutlr usurped by insolent and debauched power, and the people must resent it. and resent it promptly, or give unquestioned license to wrong. New more than ever in the contest is tbe election of Horace Greelev to

the Presidency a supreme necessity, if peace

and honest government are not to perish

?rom tbe anuais or our history, night wui triumph sooner or lat r, and i't will ret triumph in this desperate struggle if tiie people shall prore faithful to themselves, to their laws, and to their country. A. K. McClt-be. Chairman of Lirr Republican Committee.

Berth raroliDs. in oreion - 3 Wiacouriu Io

California fi Illinois - 21 Miai.i7pi I New Hamisiliirs. ."

Qnc hundred aud eighty-four votes of the Electoral College aie requisite to a choice. Thus it will be seen upon what a slender thread the Presidential electiou hangs. The vote of either one of the doubtful Slates, added to those which are certain to go against Grant will swell Mr. Greeley's rote to the number necessary to insure bis election. All things considered, Horace Greeley's chances are to-day equal to. if uot infinitely better than, U. S. Grant's.

Grant's Pardon Game. Whv tarrv the wheels of Orant s pardoning chariot ? The Ku-Klux prisoners at Albany who were to hare been released are ret in orison and likely to star there. Mr. Grant Las played the same game in 19"2 that he ! laved in 1871 holding out the mask of mersv net prior to an important election, and dropping that mask ana wearing his own proper color of blood-thirstv rindictiveness just afterward. On tbe 24th of March, 1871. Mr. Orant came out with a darning proclamation.

Liberal Prospects in Illinois. A well informed Springfield correspondent of the MiMouri Republican estimates that tba aggregate Liberal majority in Cook count? will not be less than 5.000. and mar reach 8.000. Either figure will be satisfactory. In 1863 tbe Radle?! majority in that count? was 8.313. This seems a barge rote to overcome, bot there hare been immense changes, in Chicago especially, as well as in the country. Both the German and Irish elements are nearly units for tbe Liberal movement, and a change of sixteen thousand in a vote of fifty thousand need not be wondered at. Man? of tbe strongholds of Radicalism bare been assailed by public sentiment, and hare yielded hundreds of parttsans to the reform movement DcKalb county sires a change of 550 Repnblieans to Greeley and Drown i DeWitt shows again of 700 Iroquois, the estimated change is 1,000: Jo Daviess, a gam of 1.100 : Lake, a gain of 1,900 over 1868; McHenry, 1,000; McLean, 1.000: Winnebago, nearly forty per cent, gained from tbe Reput licau rote. Others might be named. It is noteworthy that the principal gains are in the extreme northern counties, and vet this is not a marvel. Tbe great strength' of the Republican party was there. In the southern and central portions of tbe State fewer defections are to be expected, tbe Democracy being in the ascendancy. Yet in our county." St. Clair, the estimated gain is over 2,000 votes, probablv the largest in auv county of the State. Heller ills (JU.) Democrat. An Anxtons Executive. It is a little pitiful that tbe men and boys confined in tbe Albany Penitentiary for KuKlux outrages in tbe "South should be held there because tbe President is afraid of the effect of their pardon. After Messrs. Gerrit Smith aud Horace Greeley bad used their efforts in behalf of these "persons, on purely humanitarian grounds, Alexander H.Stephen's addressed a similar remonstrance to tbe President. To this Attorney General Williams replied at great length. " Tbe letter of the Attorney General, which is written like a campaign document, contains this curious sentence : " Some time since the attention of the President was called to those prisoners from tba Southern States confined in the Albany Penitentiary, and a reliable officer was forthwith dispatched to examine their cases, and his report thereon was, in some respects, favorable ; bat, aa soon as the fact was known,

I eeitain journals circulating among those most likely to be affected by such representations i declared that the sole object or tbs Presi

dent's action waa to influence votes in the approaching election, nd more than intimated that Ku-Klux outrages hereafter would go unwhipped of justice. I can assure you that the acta of Congress in question impose upon the President an unpleasant duty, and one which be would, if consistent with hia official obligations, gladly avoid ; and I know it would afford him great satisfaction if the Ku-Klux and other similar associations would disband

themselves, and, instead of cultivating the passions of hatred and revenge, cultirate peace and good fesiing among all classes of tbe community." So it seems that tbe President is convinced of tbe abstract expediency of pardoning these wretched men ; but is afraid that it wii be said that be desires to influence the Presidential electiou if he exercises bis elemeuer in their behalf. This is an extraordinary riew to take of the functions and duties of the Executive oflace; no wonder his Excellency finds it awkward business running for President and trying to be President at the same time. In effect, be says to these prisoners : "You really ought to be pardoned, and I would pardon you, but I really can't afford to while I am a candidate for re-election."

Taking Care or Soldiers' Widows. One of the resolutions of the Philadelphia

platform save : "The widows and orphans of

those who died for tbe country are entitled to the care of a geuerous and crateful people."

A soldier's widow, who is postmistress of a

small office in Massachusetts, was accord

ingly somewhat sui prised when she received the following communication, the other day, from tbe Hon. aud Rer. James Harlan. Chair

man of the resident Grant committee at Washington :

" Relieving that yen feel a deep interest in the success of the Republican candidates for President and Tice President, we take the liberty to inclose the committee's printed letter requesting contributions to aid in publishing documents and defraying other necessary expenses of the campaign. If yon can conveniently forward, as early as practicable, forty (HO) dollars, it will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged. "Very respectfully. "James Habux, Chairman." The whole business of political assessments is a scandal and a disgrace, but when it comes to taking forty dollars from a soldier's widow to help along tbe scheme for keeping Grant in tbe White House, the business is worse than ecaudalous; it is meau beyoud all expression. "

Personal. Fanxv Fkrx was CI years old. Wm. H. Sew ard was 71 when he died. BfLwra's first story was printed when he was only 15 years old. Alexander Df mas is very rich, and owns a large interest in the Banque des Marchande de Paris. The present Czir of Russia is so intemperate that his physicians say he cannot lire many months. Cordelia Howard, the original Eva of " Uncle Tom's Citbin," is still in the tiesb, and is a wife and mother. A Maine farmer is always getting himself into "pretty pickles." He put up 600 barrels of them this year. A .San Francisco journal states that a wealthy miner has fallen in love with Mrs. Fair and will marry her. John Qvinct Adams held a position under the Government during every Administration from that of Washington to that of Polk, during which he died.

We hear that the Siame-A twins differ on the Presidential question. Chang will vote for Greeley and Eng for Grant. Both might desist, and call it square. A centleman well acquainted with the family mentions, as a fact encouraging to old maid, that Naomi, daughter of Enoch, was fire hundred and eighty years old when she was married. Late advices from Paris report Senator Sumner worse, and his symptoms more alarming than when he left America. A consultation of eminent physicians wei called tfl examine hia case. Doc Eater, Ten Bears, Big Mouth, Heaps of Bears, and George Washington, aboriginal gentlemen, who have been in business with their little hatchets on the frontier, are in Washington making arrangements to be civilized. Foca of the great theatrical stars of last season will not be seen on the boards this year Forrest, Emmett, Jefl'erscn and Lotta. Forrest will give dramatic readings: Jefferson is resting his eyes; Emmett and Lotta are in Europe. Boston girls are up to everything. One of them, at 20 years of age, is in the Indian Territory publishing a paper in the Choctaw language. Her younger sister is thinking of going to China, there to publish a journal in the Chinese tongue. Daniel Drew is said to be worth $40,000,000. One of the most successful speculators in Wall street of late is Henry N. Smith, reported to have cleared $0,000,000 or $6.000.000 in the last twelve months. Jay Gould has

added $2UOO,000 to his capital since

the coup a tat in hne, ami ten or twelve

other bold operator may be named who

hare bulled and beared and gotten up corners until they have augmented their

fortunes in a single year by $1,000.000

to 1,500,000 apiece.

"Arbor Day." The State of Nebraska has done a rerv

haiidfome thing in the appointment of

a new holiday" Arbor Day."' Besides

tbe enjoyment of the occasion, the

people will accomplish a right rigorous progress in foret tree planting. It will tie observed yearly on the loth of April.

ins an agricultural festival purely, and

it is devoted to the planting of fruit and forest trees. The State Agricultural Society has offered a premium of ?100 to the Farmers' Society of the county which plants the largest number of trees on the 10th inst., and $25 to the man who individually plants the most. Tb Dalles, Oregon, salmon fisheries are estimated to be worth at least $1,000,000.