The National Banner, Volume 7, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 August 1872 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1872, m “We have turned our. backs on the past—we stand in the present and look to the futare. The past is lost to ug—the futnre is ours, let us make it a glorious one.”—Tuos. A. HENDRIOKS, = . NATIONAL REFORM TICKET. FOR: PRESIDENT : : HORACE GREELEY, ; ] S .of lﬂ'ew York. ) . ' ¥OE YIOR-PRESIDENT: B, GRATZ BROWINT, ; * Of Migsouri. - DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For QGovernor—THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. ’ Lieut. Governor—JOHN R, CRAVENS. Congressmen-at-Large | J 6 TN A\ T LTAMS. Secretary of State—OWEN M. EDY. ¢ Auditor of State—JOHN B. STOLL, . Treasurer of -State—JAMES B. RYAN. Supt. of Public Instr'n—MlLTON B. HOPKINS. Attorney General-BAYLESS W. HANNA. Clerk of Supreme Court—ED. PRICE. ] Reporter of Supreme Court- J. C, ROBINSON. ” . DISTRICT TICKETS, Congressman, 100 k District —E. VAN LONG, Common Pleas Judge, 19th Dist.— L. E. GOODWIN. Prosecuting Attorney—D. G, HUSSELMAN. | '

THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. +' Although ‘the conservative candidate {for Governor of North Carolina was defeated at the late election, the resultl throughout is an undoubted conservative victory, The conservative Lieutenant @Governor was elected ; also a conservative House of Representatives, and conservative Senate, insuring the election of - a conservative United: States Senator in place of the present radical incumbent, Poole, and five conservative members of Congress to three for Grant. The counties first reported after the election gave strong conservative gains, which upon the same ratio throughout the State «<would have given the conservative candidate for Governor 5,000 majority. It soon became- apparent, however, as the reports arrived from the interior where the government officers—marshals, dep uty - marshals, .and carpet-baggers—had - unrestrained control of the polls, that the most - outrageous frauds had been perpetrated ;in three counties over 10,000 fraudulent votes had been registered and voted for the radical candidate. But with all the frauds, ballot box stuffing, and kindred devices to carry the election for the Grant candidates, the friends of Greeley and reform ‘can’ congratulate themselves upon having achiéved a clear victory, having made a conservative gain of 12,000 since 1868.. The radical candi. date that year for Governor having over 18,000 majority. The State is quite certain for Greeley and Brown in November,

I : E.V.LONG. - This gentleman was nominated on the 6th inst., at Columbia City, by the Liberals and Democrats, as théir candidate for Congress from this (tenth) District. With due deference. to the many good men in the district, we think that a better nomination could.not. have been made. Mr. Long is a young man of fine ability, and one of the most active, energetic workers with.whom we ever became acquainted. ‘We have known Mr. Long intimately since 1857, and we know that asa lawyer, 8 public speaker and private citizen, he stands Bigh. Where he is best known he is best liked, and all parties join in according to h\p honesty, integrity and ability. Mr. Long'will make a thorough canvass of the District and if we all do our duties as we should,he will be elected. Let every township be thoroughly organized, and let nothing be undone that should be done to secure the election of our nominee. All our meéetings should be well attended and the proper documents should be well distributed. We want no laggards, no wayside loiterers, no political bummers, but we want all to join in the work of reform and to be live, active workers in the viceyard of their country. To the vigilant, the active, the brave, belong the victory. Each man should feel that it is to him that the country is looking for deliverance from the bad men who have so shamefully conducted the affairs of the government for the past three years. Then up with the banner, boys, and victory is ours.

Government Printers Assessed for Po- 1 3 litical Purposes. - The printers in thé Government office at Washington have, it seems, been.as—sessed by order of Mr. Clapp, five dollars each to carry on the radical campaign. That official headed the list with a subscription of $lOO, and sent a colored messemger to each of the printers, with a demand for the money to be deducted from their next pay. The document was headed with a statement that*the money must be raised for the purpose of distributing republican documents. advocating' the election of Grant and Wilson. As the Government oifice is not regarded as a department, this argues that it does not come within thé scope of the civil service regulations. Some of the printers refused to sign the document, and nearly all denounce the action of the Government Printer as an outrage. One of the print—ers who refused to contribute makes the following statement: “Not long agoa club was gotten up in the office, the subscription paper being sent around,for the New York Zribune for the campaign. ~About 150 names had been signed, the frica being very low. As soon as the oreman found such & clab had been gotten up, he ran to Mr. Clapp with the re'port, and the subscription list was ordered to be destroyed. Every man, I suppose, who signed the paper, merely did so because it was an extraordinary chance to. get such a large paper at such a small price. I think it was fifty cents for six ‘months,” .

' . Fudge Davis for Greeley. It has been so frequently stated by the ‘Grant? organs that Justice Davis, of the Supreme Court, would support Grant in- - stead of Greeley in the coming election, it is well enough to say that after the ‘nomination of Mr, Greeley at Cincinnati, he expressed satisfaction at the result of the convention, and that the movement had hie heartiest sympathy. Ie has more ~ than once announced his intention to vote . for the candidates, and has lately reitera-,‘ ~ ted thatintention. |

MRE. WOOD’S REPLY TO MR. HENDRICKS, S By invitation, Hon. W. A. Wood, of Goshen, addressed the Grant and Wilson club of this place, last Friday evening. - Mr. Wood did not attempt a discussion of the real issues of the campaign, but did attempt a reply to several statements made lately by Mr. Hendricks in his speeches in this part of the State, and an effort to corvict Mr. Hendricks of mis: representation and falsehood. ' In this attempt we find Mr. Wood, simply an imitator of Senator Morton, who makes the same charges against Mr. Hendricks. We propose to present those statements and the authority to support them, with Mr, Wood'. & Co.’s denial, that our readers may see who is right. L Ist; Mr. W. says that Mr. Hendricks stated that Gen. Grant signeéd a bill grant: ng the Northern. Pacific Railroad Company 47,000,000 acres of the public lands; this, Mr. Wood says, is not true ; 2d, that henever signed any bill having in ita grant ot any-land to the company, and third that nol such act was passed at all"'; but that a rc.?olution was passed authorizing the company to issue bonds to aid in constructing | the road, to mortgage its lands to secure the same: which the President wg&s not required to sign ; that the lands were granted in 1864, during Mr. ‘Lincoln's administration, and that that is all Pxfesidcnt Grant had to do with the subject. | In the first. place Mr. W's. charge is a garbled statement of what Mr. llendric‘k‘s did actually say; his answer, an iug¢uious;'subterfuge: : Mr. Hendiické said “the act approved by Mr. Grant completed a grant of 47,000,000 acres of land to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,” This is true. : ) :

The act was approved May 81, 1870, and can be found in the Congressional Globe of 24 session, 41st Congress, pt. 7, page 742. [ln that act; first section, occurs the following grant: *“And in the event .of their not being in any State or Territory in which said main line or branch may be located, at the time of the final location thereof, the amount of lands per . mile granted by Congress to said company within the limits prescribed by its charter, then said company shall be entitled, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to receive so many sections of land belonging to the United States and designated by odd numbers in such State or Territory, within ten miles on each side of said road, beyond the limits prescribed iin said charter, as will make up such deficiency on said main line or branch, except mineral and other lands, &c.,” as excepted in the act of 1864. Then “such an act” was. passed. How much land was embraced in this additional grant ‘is not definitely known. The Republican National Committee in their campaign document of 1870, estimated the additional grant at. 11,000,000 acres;' while it was stated by Mr. Holman and others ‘at the time of the passage of the act to exceed 20,000,000 additional. The first act, as is well known, contained a grant of forty-seven million acres. Since the additional grant was made-the amount received ay the company is estimated in a circular issued by Jay Cook & Co., agents of the company, at over 50,000,000 acres, or in the language of the circular “The Northern Pacific Railroad grant is larger than the six New England States with Maryland added, or as large as the! two States of Ohio and Indiana combined.” | b When Mr. Hendricks, made the above statement he was exposing the policy of the admiﬁ:xistration—the Legislative and Executive departments—in thus robbing the people of lands which should be held‘for the actual gettler, to appease the rapacity of monopolists. He did not pre-’ tend to say that this single act granted to the company the forty-seven million‘ acres ; but that by the passage of this act, and its approval by the President, the company acquired that amount of land, a grant of that quantity was completed. | ’ If the Executive alone made the grants of lands to railroad companies, then Messrs. Wood, Morton & Co. might claim some semblance of fairness for their attempt @t refuting Mr. Hendricks; but when the present notorious system of land grants is a policy for which Congress gndthe President are both responsible, the “defense set up becomes, to say the least, ridiculous. But Mr. Wood says, as does Morton, that “Mr. Grant signed no bill granting an acre of land to the Northern, Pacific Railroad Company.” But Le approved | resolution which became an' act and a law making the grant as above shown, .May 81, 1870. If Mr. Wood finds any consolation in that style of defense he is welcome to it. If he thinks a resort to specious expressions or terms, will; with people of intelligence, be deemed sufficient to controvert facts sustained by reason and authority, he, in that- case, will be most greviously disappointed. | The second charge made against Mr. Hendricks is as follows: “Mr, Hend. ricks/says that the first official act of Mr, Grant after he became President was to approve #nd sign an act known as the Public Credit Act, by which the value of United States bonds was instantly enhanced twenty per cectum.” Mr, Wcod says this statement is wholly and totally false. o

Let us see. This act authorized the payment in coin of all those obligations of tke government which, before its passage, were considered payable in paper currency,—the 5-20 bonds for example. It is well known that the factors entering into the. calculation or estimate of ‘ the increased value of these obligations consist in the increased market value by reason of the certainty of their beifig paid ‘ in coin and in the difference between the ‘ value of gold or coin, and paper curren~ cy. The average value of the 5-20 bonds in the principal markets for 1868 was 1.10; in 1869 the average was 1.15 ; with other securities of the government, about the same increase, which hds since obtained, This would be an increase in. the value ot those obligations of at.least & per eentum. . L | Onthe 18th day ot March; 1869, when the above act was passed, the premium on gold was 8114 per cent. u@ have there an immediate increase inthe value of those obligations effected by this of 8134 per centum, to which add the lincreased market price by reason of the ssurance that they would be paid in coin | Bnd the increase of value is net only 20

per cent., as Mr. Hendricks stated, but 86 per cerft. . Mr. Hendricke then made but two mistakes: he estimated the land granted to the railroad company at forty-seven million acres, when a republican campaign committee, together with the company’s agents, Messrs. Jay Cook & Co., say 1t was over fifty millions of acres. 2d. That by the passage of the act called the Public Credit act, the increase in the value of interest-bearing obliga. tions of the government, was not only 20 per cent. but over 30 per cent. Instead, then, of Mr. Hendricks being guilty of falsechood so boldly charged, the facts stated by him were not only made in the most fair and truthful maoper, but in the most favorable aspect for his opponents of which the case was susceptible. As for Mr. Wood, in making so baseless a charge and in attempting to sustain it by a system of specious logic,revealing its own absurdity, lacking both,K reascn and authority, we can say he only achieved by his effort a reputation for candor and fairness which we do not envy. His im* peachment of the good name and fame of a man respected and admired by - all who know him, results in a*failure all the more damaging to its author. :

TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The Democrats and Liberal Republicans of the Tenth Congressional District met in Columbia City on the 6th inst. The meeting was called to crder by Col. L. B. McDonald, of Whitley county, in a few pertinent remarks, aud, on motion, J. A. 8. Mitchell, Esq., of ‘Goshen, was chosen chairman. | e . Upon taking the chair, Mr. Mitchell addressed the convention in an able and telling speech. Hesaid he saw before him men of both political parties, and that he recognized them as now joining hands and working together for one common end:‘tb,e establishment of reform, reconciliation and a pure and honest government ; which glorious results could and would be brought about by the combined efforts of the honest men of the country. . J. A. Campbell, of Columbia City, was chosen reading and recording secretary, and all the democratic editors of the dis. trict, secretaries. ‘The follo"win'g gentlemen were appoint: ed a Committee on Resolutions: :

DeKalb, C A. O. McClellan; Steuben, George W. McConnell; Noble, Dr. A. 8. Parker ; Lagrange, Dr. Griffith ; Elkhart, W. W. McVitty ; Kosciusko, W. S. Mar - shall ; Whitley, Eli W. Brown ; Huntington, Gen. Jas. R. Slack. : The committee, by its chairmun, Gen. Slack, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : -Resolved, That we do hereby endorse and reaffirm the platform of principles adopted by the Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention of May Ist, 1872, as explaived in Greeley’s lctter of acceptance, and also reendorsed by the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore; and also the resolutiong of the late convention at Indianapolis, adopted June 12th,1872; and that-we hereby pledge ourselves to carry out and make effective the same'in their fullest and broadest application. ~ Resolved, That the Cincinnati platform having submitted to the Congressional Districts the subject of the tariff, we, the liberal reform party of the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, hereby declare that we are in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and opposcd to all diseriminations, whereby. the necessaries of life are highly taxed for the benefit of a few monopolists at the expense of the tax-pay-ers and consumers of the country.

Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves with unanimity to a cordial support of the national, State and district heretofore and to-day made by the Liberal Republicans and Democrats of the Union, State and district. ; e An informal ballot wus then taken for Congressman, the contest being between 8. E. Alvord, of Noble, and E. YVan Long, of Kosciusko. Mr. Alvord having withdrawn his name, Mr. Long was nominated by acclamation on the first regular ballot. | The convention referred the nomination of Circuit Judge .and Prosecutor for the 14th Judicial Circuit to the Congression‘al Central Committee and the attorneys of the circuit. = For Judge of the 19th Common Pleas District, Lucius E. Goodwin, Liberal Republican, of Kendallville, was nominated by acclamation. : D. G. Husselman, of DeKalb county,was nominated for Prosecuting Attorney. Gen. Milo S. Hascall was chosen Presidential Elector for the Tenth District, and Dr. Griffith, of Lagrange, contingent elector. : : The following gentlemen being named by their respective.counties, were appointed to constitute the Central Committee : DeKalb, T. C. Mays; Steuben, Joseph Woodhull; Lagrange, Wm. Hill ; Elkhart, W. C. Wilson; Noble, 0. D. Willett; Whitley,| Theodore Reid; Huntington, Wm, Hendrie ; Kosciusko, W.S. Marshall; who afterward elected W. S. Marshall chairman of the committee. Mr. Long, the nominee for Congress, being called for, responded in one of his ‘ablest speeches. His remarks, which were frequently applauded, showed his ability ‘to discuss with effect the questions involv‘ed in the present campaign. He promised to devote his time trom now until after the election t> the work before us, and to discuss at lerigth all the important questions before the citizens of the several counties of the District. ]

Gen. Hascall was then loudly called for and addressed the convention in a short, pertinent spéech,whiph was well received. . A vote of thanks was extended to the citizens of Columbia City for their hospitality and cordiality, and to the chairman ot the convention for the able manner in whi€h he bad presided, after which the convention ;adjourhed‘ with the .utmost harmony of sentiment.

SENATOR BUMNER was serenaded at his residence in Washington, on Friday evening of last week, and in response to the compliment made a speech of about fif‘teen minutes in length. His remarks were principal%y devoted to the colored men .(of which race his audience was largely composed), and the enthusiasm which they swakened among his hearers was in itself a sufficient denial of the oftrepeated statements of the Grantites, that the colored people will blindly follow the course laid for them by the officeholders’ party. The gathering is represented as being the largest of the kind ever assembled at the eapitol. - 1 .-—-——-'-!—**.—-————« st Tae Seymour (Ind.) Democrat, which was qu&prmd in 1864 for i,u}it'l’qu}ty,l is out for Grant, and radical paper Tﬁﬂ oflit;.’u “that able and sparkling journal, .* :

g Fer the National Banner. Not Dead—Only Passive. ' Hawearcm, Aogust 10. Eprror BANNER: — “Frisco’s” letter from this locality, in your last issue, in which the writer sets forth the general direction which public opitifon and politcal sentiment. seems to be taking in the Hawpatch, has been the subject of no little comment here. . | The article referred to is an able one, and was evidently written by some one well posted on the political situation, buf, it contains one statement which Demo—crats who bave lately become identified with the liberal movement do not feel disposed to swallow. I refer to that unwarranted declaration that “the great democratic party is forever dead.” Now, n_sg regard this watter, the case is quite di ferent. e Let us go back a few months to the origin of this liberal movement and see whether the great democratic party is really dead or only asleep. The first indication I remember to have seen of this liberal movement appeared about a yeat ago in an able editorial of the Missouri Republican, under the title of “Passive Policy,” in which it was proposed that the Democracy, as it could not 'hope to elect a candidate of its own choice, unite with the disaffected portion of the republican party (for it was evident even then that there would be a spl?t\&tEat party) m order to defeat the present™dministration. In short, it was proposed that the Democracy withdraw from the Presidential contest, and, having no candidate in the field, its weight wou!d be cast in favor of the more liberal of the two republican candidates. e This experiment had been eminently successful in Missouri, West Virginia, and several other State and municipal elcctions, and there seemed to be no good reason why- it should not work just‘as well in a Presidential election. =~ .

The reason assigned for the passiveness on the part of the Democracy, was that they could not' hope to be successful in a direct contest, and that a part of the loaf would be better than none at all. It was claimed in the same article, that there would not necessarily be acy disbandment of the party, but simply a withdrawal from one Presidential contest. The passive policy seemed to foreshadow what has since come to pass. The republican party split, and at a' massive convention in Cin cinnati nominated Horace Greeley for President. The democratic party met at Baltimore and simply signified a willingness to aid in the election of the liberal candidate. There is no demoeratic candidate in the field. The Democracy could never have chosen Horace Greeley to represent tbgm‘or to carry out their long: cherished notions of popular government.

There are to:day, as much as ever there were, two distinct political parties in this country. The democratic party can never diz. It was born with the Republic ; its history is written; its traditions are sacred; its fruits are everywhere to be seen, and although it bas not held the balance of power in the last twelve years, yefits influence has been . felt throuvery town, county and State in the ). It i 8 immortal. L ' There must be two distind_parties in every country where the people rule. It is natural and proper.- The one holds the other in check. Opposition in politics, like opposition in trade, has a purifying ‘tendency. Does not the Dzmocracy still retain its party organiza'tidp in the different States? Is not the proprietor of the BANNER the democratic candidate . for State Auditor? and is not Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, to-day, running on the same ticket for Governor of thiscommonwealth? There is not a Democrat in the Hawpatch who will not vote for Horac Greeley, and as “Frisco” has truthfu{lly said, the Liberals of .both parties are brought together under one common standard and a wholesome feeling exists. as _wéll asa strong confidence in:the victorious results of thé November election. \But/’I must disagree with Mr. “Frisco” asto a great party having died out in so short a time. No,the Democracy is only gaining strengh by its silence, and will arise refreshed from this apparent sleep to assert its power by its onward march to victory. Horace Greeley is not a Democrat but he comes nearer representing us than does Graunt, the military dictator. Let mé prophesy that Horace Greeley’s successor will be & Democrat. - 4.0 0

o Rowdyism. : At 8 democratic and liberal meeting held last Saturday evening in Etna, Whit. ley county, which was addressed by.J. B. Stoll, of this place, and C. B. Tulley, of Columbia City, some Grant rowdies dis‘turbed the meeting in a'disgraceful man‘mer. A lot of boys, under the leadershipof Tke Welker, who were seated in the ‘ back part of thé house, left the room ¢n masse, after Stoll. had spoken about twen-. ty five minutes, and proceeded at once to run,round the house and howl and bellow so as to annoy the speaker. After the first speaker had concluded his remarks, Mr. Tulley made a short speech, and when he ceased talking, Welker got up and proposed three cheers for Grant, In this he was assisted by Wm: Bowlsby, and joined by the boys on the outside. The whole matter was all arranged’ beforehand, and the rowdies, Welker and Bowlsby, bad no doubt gathered: up all ‘the boye they could to assist them in disturbing the meeting. After the speaking was over a genera: discussion took place, in which some of the Grant men, among whom Dr. Austin was chief, tried to smooth the matter over for' the black:« guards by apologizing in such & manner as to regret that it had occurred, or that “his friends” had not done better : but at the same time his apology was so werded as to eay, “boys, you did right in the matter.” If Dr. Austin desired that “his friends” should behave themselves, why did be not ask during the meeting that they would do so.. We regret to have to reeord a. thing of this kind, especially ‘when we remember that all the leaders in the dﬁir}are.p‘rofemd chrigtians, If persons don't wish to hear a speech, let them stey away, and nothing but arrant cowards and blacklegs will disturb a meeting of any kingi"ﬁii\tﬁis",i.tgg*it,immﬂy'-l held and civil in its intentions. | T oy bof G ‘men denounced the agtion of the rowdies wdies. aB.an outrage {0 a civilized community, ohe o sy, oi 0 g ful an affalr will ot oconrsgain. ) R T e T e R, DR DS SR eAR L RS

- FOR GREELEY. = _The New York Day Book abandons Buncombe Danton and hoists the Liberal N “The New York Herald has finally. booked itself as & Greeley organ. At least, so says the Buffalo Commercial, a Grant or - gan. : : : The Fort Wayne Sentinel says “politics are getting red-hot in Fort Wayne. The city almost a unit in sapport of Greeley and Brown. .« b b ety A thorough canvass of the German vo - ters of the city of Springfield, Tll, reveals the fact that 715 are for Greeley, 4 for Grant, and 14 doubtful. . . Charles Remeline has announced his intention to vote for Grant. This is to be classed among the favorable indications.- — Cincinnati Enquirer. - A dispatch from St. Paul Minn., of the 9th says: Ex-United States Scpator O. P. Stearns, formerly of Rochester but now of Duluth, declares himself for Greeley. Charles F. Wadsworth, of Genesee, son of the late Gen. Wadsworth, has gone into the campaign for Greeley with a zeal that will be felt in Western New York, The stampede from Grant to Greeley continues in Porter county, Ind. Another month and Greeley will be the unanimous choice of the people.— Valparaiso Messenger. : f Col. Zollinger, the present Sheriff of Allen county, bas declined the republican nocmination, on the ground that this is ‘not a good year to runon a ‘straight Republican party ticket. . . - T. Rollins, Chairman of the Gg‘ant Executive State Committee of New Hampshire, has come out in tavor of Greeley apd Brown, and bas written a letter giving his reason therefor. S The Executive Committce of the Labor Reformers of California, have declared for Greeley and Brown. Every Democratic journal on the Pacific coast has accepted the Baltimore ticket. : Judge 8. L. Miner, late of the Cincinati Superior Court, seeing that his name was used in the Republican County Con: ‘vention, writes that “‘ag at present advis‘ed, I shall not vote for the re-election of ‘General Grant.” |

- Judge ' Charles T. Sherman, of Cleveland, Ohio, brother of General William T. and of Senator John Sherman, writes to a Republican friend in Mansfield, 0., advising kim to work and vote for Gree~ ley and Brown: - = = ° e - The Hon. Lindley M. Ninde, of Fort Wayne, has declared for Greeley and Brown. He will deliver an address in Ft. Wayne this week. ~ So we go. The best men of the Republican party declaring for Greeley and Brown. Mr.T. Rollins, Chairman of the Grantite State Executive Committee in New Hamp: shire, has biddeu the Perambulating Persunal Provider good evening, and united his political fortunes with the friends of Greeley and Good Giovernment. - The Aurora, 111.,, Volksfreund, an influ. ential German paper, edited by Mr. P 7 Klein, and the only German paper in the 4th Tlllinois Congresional District, came out last Friday in support of Greeley and Brown, and the entire State ticket. . - Ex Postmaster Gen. King, of Maine, who supported Grant in 1868, announces that the last tour years’ experience has gatisfied him that we have the wrong man at the head of the government. He desires that Mr. Greéley shall be Mr. Grant's suc: Cessor.- .. : :

' The venerable Judge Veile, who was President of the first Republican State Convention of lowa 16 years ago, and who was an influential supporter of Grant in 1868, was last Wednesday night elected Chairman of the Greeley and Brown club of Dubuque, and accepted the position in an eloquent and energetic speech. The Peoria’ (Ill.) Democrat, which did not raise the Greeley flag until after the Baltimore Convention, says of the Blanton Duncan movement: “This is rather thin. There are many Democrats who do not prefer Greeley and Brown to all others for the two highest offices in the gift of the American people, but there are no good Demccrats who do not prefer themto Grant and Wilson.” © . ¢ i

" THE LEADERS ot the Grant party have been trying for several yearsto convince the people that the democratic party was dead. They prétended to have witnessed the funeral rites on several occasions, tho’ not always agrecing exactly as to the date. It seems now they have made a mistake, What ‘appears singular however is, not that they should make mistakes—that being a natural failing with that party, but that their great leader should, just as a national election approaches,when their condition assumes a grave aspect, face about and rebuke this style of argument, as Senator Wilson, the Grant candidate for Vice President, did in his specch at Indianapolis, on the sth inst. Hear the testimony of the facts from a hostile witness. . The Senator says: = - “T am not among those who under-esti-mate the power of the democratic party in the United States. - I know the mighty strength of that organization. I know there are men of great ability in its ranks; that it’has immense wealth in its ranks; _that it has in some portions of the country "immense power by its wealth and social position. T know that it hag more than 8,000,000 of voters in the United States; and I pity.the poor man who shall go up and . ddwn this country undertaking to convince the American people that the "democratic party is dead or is dying. ' I say, gentlemen, it was said-by that grand, old anti-slavery man, Gerrit Smith, the “other day: “The demo:ratic party is my dread ; the republican party is my hope.” _Gentlemen, we defeated the democratic ‘party ‘in 1860 because it ‘was divided, - when 'we were in a minority of a million. We defeated it in 1864 because the country was not perfectly .restored, and the feeling of this nation was that we must not bring the men who were in the rebellion or sympathized with it, into the government of the country. We defeated it in 1868, when four States were not represented in the Unior, by a popular ma,}ority of only 810,000.: Now, gentlemen, know that we should have defeated the democratic party this year if that party had come forw‘ar@, selected one of its own ‘men, declared its'principles and gone into ‘the contest; but, gentlemen, we shounld ‘bave bad a severe contest.”. . | . The severityof thecontest Mr. Wilson’s party is now compelled to make, will be the more easily comprehended wlhien it is considered that a fourth or more of their party are now working with Democrats to secure Mr. Greeley’s election. =" ~ Liberalism in Whiley County, Ind. ~ Covruusis Crry, INp, Aug. 8, - To the Bditor of The Chicago Tribume: = .. . Bir :—The Hon. John B. Stoll, Demo: ~cratic candidate for State Auditor, ad--dressed an enthusiastic meeﬁ:tisbfll)emocraté’ and mmmm%ubm 8 last evening at Cherubusco. - ‘The attendance was %?. and thisiopening of the canvass in LTI de e e 278 : ; ~, L x' U ?:: F £ e "B“m {3 i}ﬂ!a e, @" fall disonsnion of the lixs lavisg of he day. | i Dot JEtien ghe gbly. nid samestly soviewed by Mr. Siol, who was followed by ‘remarks from C, B. Talley, *Bﬁ.mﬂm J. R. Baker. The bew leav‘enis working hvely here, “Old Honest Government” striking terror int. the:littheir spoils, as they behold many of the ;im*‘” ost prominent and A e aiabis Hanstis ‘Hate. and plicing themselves ‘g"t‘ van J

+. . STATEITEMS, * e The city council of Terre Haute are talking of lighting their city with gasoline. N ' : . The corner stone of the New Catholic Charch of Fort Wayne, ' was laid last Sunday. e ; The town council of Mitchell will permit no flag-pole in that place over fifty feet high. . - ’ " The friends of Henry Beane,of Huntington are inquiring of his whereabouts He has been missing tor 15 months. Little boys earry guns about Lowell that are hardly large enough to play outeide of the goor yard. Spank them. —Lowell Star. i The farmers of Eagle Creek, township, have been pestered more or less with wolves among their sheep this summer.— Lowell Star, . : A severe storm passed over Kokomo recenily, blowing down éhimneys, trees, fences and a part of a bnilding. The rain fell in torrents accompanied with hail. ; i

Anthony Engbert, of Haymond, was seriously snake bitten on Friday last in the harvest field. Through medical and careful attention, Anthony stands on his pins again.—Franklin Democrat, 2nd: : : ‘ Mrs. Mathews, the mother of Vice~ President Colfax, died in South Bend on Sunday last. Her disease was can~ cer, of five or six years standing. Mrs. Matthews was said to be a lady of great intelligence. o Mr. Peter Kling, of Washington twp.. Newton co., has yearling calves that weigh 1,000 pounds per head, and one thoroughbred bull calf, nine months old, that weighs 600 pounds — Marion Democrat. ‘ Thomas Knowland and Samuel Knowland, relatives, of Henryyville, Clark county, the other day, shot each other, the effect of which was that /Thomas was instantly killed, and Samuel mortally wounded. . : - The Rensselaer post-office is located in a bar-room, and as a-consequencg the number of men who “expect a letter” a little after supper time has largely increased in that community. It would in most any community.A son of aMr, C Varpillat, of Lo~ gansport, about 20 years old, rode a horge with only a halter in search of his father’s cow, the other morning. At 11 A. M., the horse was found dragging the lifeless body of the young man by the halter, which was tied’'aroand his body. L - The Kentland Gacette says: “Wm. Tedrick, in Jackson township, got into an altercation with Ad. Orisler one day last week, and stabbed the latter with a pitchfork in the neck, and Mr. Orisler is lying in a very critical condition, Tedrick was arrested and is now in jail here.” i The musical institute continues in sessioh in this city, and the voice ot the many accomplished singers of Go.shen are nightly heard, to the pride of our citizens. The voices of our young ladies are being well cultivated, under the auspices of the present convention. — Goshen Democrat. |

,John Bell, of Oil township. Perry county, was killed by falling” from a load of hay, a few days ago. On the same day Victor Marshell fell from. another load and received very serious injury * If it is the custom to tumble from loaded hay wagons in Perry co, it isone that can not be too ‘severely repreuended,. L i A son of Walter Sowned, of New Maysville, Putnam couuty, was milking a.cow, on Tuesday last, and annoyed by the switching off the flies with her tail,tied it fast to his brother, a nine year old child. The cow, while thus tied, was frightened by a passing train, and ran, gﬂraggingﬁ the boy a quarter of a mile, He was head when picked up.—2 Marion Democrat. ] " A bad fence between, two neighbors living a few miles north of town has cost two law-suits within the last year resulting in the award of $2O damage to one and $26 to the other and occasioning a considerable expense to each for counsel. Half of the money expended in litigation would have built a good fence, and kept the two men good friends and neighbors to each other.— Crawfordsville Journal., e

On Wednesday of last week a little son of Isreal Wiant was seriously injured. He was in the barny when the timbers supporting the mow which contained about seventy-five dozéns of oats gave way and fell on the the little boy who ‘remained in that condition about thres quarters of an hour when he was rescued from his perilous condition. His head was badly bruised, blood issued from his ears, nose and lungs; a pertion of the skull on the the right side of the head was crushed in. The little fellow is getting along very well.—Marion Democrat. At a Grant meeting in Rushyille, on Wednesday of last week, a cannon prematurely exploded and several persons . were severely injured. The accident occurred in this wise: George W. Wilson was in the act of ramming the camridge, and Frank Ridenbaungh was stooping in front .of the piece, plucking grass, when the premature discharge took place. The rammer struck Wilson's right arm above the elbow tearing it to shreds, and passing on, struck Ridenbaugh, almost ‘severing the right shounlder and breast from ‘the body, ‘crushing the skull and tearing away the right:check and a part of the mouth and nose, His lifeless corpse was hurled a distance of twelve feet. Another sad’'warning to those who have the management of artillery on public occasions.—Franklin - Democrat; Aug, 2nd. ' L

: Logan and the Negroes. ' . As a matter of history, now that John A. Logan has congented to enter the, ginvass and to teach the people’ republican - ism, and especially our colored. fellow citi-. zens, it is well enough to furnish a part of the record upon..which he relies to carry conviction to the hearts of hig audience, that of all the disciples 'of repub. licanism he is the greatest. On Thursday, January 6, 1853, Liogan offered the following resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives : ’ S -Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary -be instructed ‘to reporta- bill to effectually prevent the emigration of free ‘i:’je%roes into this State, under the article of the constitution: requiring the Legislature to pass such a law. -~ = ... : Al mbti;)n to ;Zy the resolution on the table was lost—l 4 yeas t 055 nays. ong the m.is were John A. I.ogaﬁ"mqﬁf}gg;lby M. Cullom, This chmgﬂl;&mw ,tm& agopta&:n 1848, had ain a 8 a dead, % left to’ hﬁym to Tevive it and give it proper effect.” =

.. NEWS or,'l"n&!_r‘sl;x_‘.{. Sue Mace and O'Baldwin, two pagilists, are going to pound each other fomorrow. Sk TG The. price of coal in England has now increased to 100 per cent. over last year’s prices. - e - Pittsburg claims to have made steel which stands a test of 240,000 pounds to the square inch.. ' . - Weat Point Cadets are now in camp, and their military evolutions are witnessed by a large number of people every day, - : « Dr. Peters, of Hamilton Uollege, N. X x‘eyprts the discovery, on the night of July 31, of two new planets, both aateroids, ¢ 00l - Diamonds and other precious stone from Arizona have been exhibited to the public in San Francisco, causing great excitbment. - . i TR C

__German immigration at the port.of New York numbered 11,335 during the mionth of July. The total since January lis 78376, & - . o The United States have 5,000 telegraph stations, 75,000 miles of linie, over 7,000 operators, and transmit over 11,500,000 meag‘age,s annually. - Joseph Cohen, a 13-year old son of a widow of Detrojt,- was caught between two cars at the Michigan Central depot, in that city, on the 6th inst., and crushed to death.. . =~ - Bay City, Michigan, yoted by & vote of 835 to 18, on the sth inst., for an additional appropriation of $59,000 to push along the corstruction of the wa‘ter works in that city. .. A _ The ' Crown: Prindes Victoria of Prussia, a daughter of Queen Victoria, ‘has offered a prize of $B,OOO on the best essay on advancing the material interests of working women,

A man named Osborn was arrested at Galesburg, IIL, last Tuesday night, upon suspicion. of having - committed the outragous -murder of Mrs. Matthews, near Yates City on Monday. -

King Amadeus, of Spain, approving the proposition submitted to” him by his cabinet, -has signed a decree providing for the gradual abolition of slavery.in the Provincesof Cubaand Porto Rico. st bl elty

i A field glass, lost in Prickl Pear Valley, Col., last winter, Was'__f{m’nd:a few weeks ago, and the trees, vegetation' and small stream, near which the glass laid, are indelibly. photographed on the glasses, " . = oo g

The main tower on the New York pier of the east: river"bridge,- at th;e_ foot of Roosevelt street, is now twelve feet above high water, the foundations, with all -the submgrine structures of the pier, being fully completed. =~ An extensive Aldine fruit preserving factory, the building for which has cost $14,000, and which will give employment to about seventy hands, will be in running orderin a day or two in the town of Fowler, Adams co, Il

Major Thomas Jefferson Randolph, great grandson of . Thomas Jefferson, and a contractor on the Chesapeak & Ohio railroad, was killed last Friday evening, near Hawks’ Nest, Fayette county, Va., by a premature explogion while blasting. ST e o

Only two or three nights ago a Liberal ‘Republican club was formed by fifteen colored ‘men in Montgomery, Ala.; and already three of them have been seriously maltreated. One of them was stahbed in five places, and js in a dangerous condition, ~ . - . - Jacob R. Eckfeldt, aged 70, Chief Assayer in the United States Mint for the past 40 years, died at Philadephia, on the 9th inst. He was a son of Adam Eckfeldt, who was appointed Chief Coinet of the Mint by President Washington, in 1794; ' . . -

An old man, aged 103 years, named William George,.a resident of Rochester, Sangamon ¢o., 111, eommitted suicide on the 6th iust., by hanging himself to the limb of a tree with a leather strap, while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity. <

A rock weighing about 1000 pounds was placed on the track of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Belmont, Ky., and the train leaving this city at 5:30 P. M., Monday, struck it.. The en: gine was damaged, but no one was was hurt. No clue to the perpetrator has been found.—ZLowisville Ledger, 5. Chester Waldron, who is charged with having committed a brutal outrage on a little girl named Ellen Steer, in Morenci, Mich., on the 22d of last month has had a preliminary examination, which resulted in his being committed to jail in that city to await trial at the next term of the Circuit Coutt.

A passenger train on the Burlington & Bouth~western railroad was thrown from the track, near Seymour, Tows, Sanday, Aug.. 4th. - The whole train went over'an. enbankment of tenfeet. high. No person was seriously injured, though several were slightly bruis. ed. A cow was the cause of the ac:cident. i TS

. One day last week, at Mt. Union, near Alliarce, 0., a boy about twelve | years old, son of a Mr. Barnhart; during the absence of his parents, gat out his father’s gun and . threatened to shoot his sister, younger than himself. She ran to anb%ﬁérmbbi and the young ruffian told herif she didn’t come back he would shoot ' the baby, which he did, killing it instantly. 2 =~ The recent heavy rains storms that have prevailed in the Ohio valley seem to have extended ‘southwardly; and:to have been unuswally severe in Misgissippi: and Alabama. In the former causirﬁ great destruetion to the differ« ent railroads, and in the latter damage to the growing crops, together with the destruction of property, is estimated at five millions of dollars, -~

A tew days since, workmen in the employ of Mesars, Miller Brothers, of Tascola, while engaged in getting out logs on" the north branch of the Cass, in Huron county, Mich., came upon: the bodies of five persons who were burned to death in;;tﬁe great 'ﬁres;;lgstj_] fall. They, with 35 other families,who had formed a settlement in the woods, were burned out, and, fleeing for their lives, they hajf"*hmﬂ n old lumber Josdkabgnt th %;m"ﬂ'é;‘?%n. /s ap posed, they were overcome by the heat. and smoke. Mr. Wesley Miller juforraed the inhabitants of the seitlement_and the bodigs . were éﬁ:&ﬁbi v buied. They wers & mian and his wifo e s yeg Ty school teacher — who" was boardihe Withthem,. - & 7 OW

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