Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 February 1880 — Page 2

The Ligonier Bauer, GONTER. e ANA

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. XLVith ; Congress, . AN adverse report was made in the Benate on the 11th on the bill granting a pension to the wl‘fl;)w of the late Gemneral Custei but,at the request of Mr. Ferry, the bill was placed on the calendar. The bill for the reliet of: fi‘itz John Porter was made the sgecial or~der for the 16th. The resolution offered b{ Mr. Eaton, December 4, requesting the President to transmit copies of all correspondence with foreign Governments or their representatives in relation to the Interoceanic Canal, was gassed ...In the House Mr. Price submitted the report of the Committee on Banking and Currency upon the affairs of the German National Bank of Chicago, to the effect that the testimony taken demonstrated that a greatirregularity had been produced; so far as ‘the Comptroller of Currem;{7 and Receiver were ooncerned, the testimony: indicated a disPoeition on their part to protect, the stockholders and ereditors; in the opinion of the Committee, the principal cause of failure was that the directors utterly failed in their duty; the committee recommended that the National Bank act be amended so as to hold all directors to a strict accountability, and provide: that the stockholders, whose duty it is to elect directors, shall in no case be relieved from their gersona.l responsibility to the creditors of he bank until they have paid not only the amount of stock held by them, but also an additional sum equal to said stock. Mr. King, Cbairman of the ~Committee on Interoceanic Canal, reported a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the House, for the use of the Committee on Interoceanjc Canal, such sthatistics as may be in the Department giving the amount of shipping between the Atlantic and ‘Pacific ports of the United States and the' amount and kind of cargoes from the coasts of the Pacific Ocean, the ;amount of transportation across the Isthmus and, generally, 'its ports -of destination and original shipment, and the.average duration of voyages around the Horn, between San Francisco and New York. The question of the -revision of the rules was further comsidered inCommittee of the Whole, | - MR. SAUNDERS introduced. a bill in the Senate on the 12th to abolish all the duties on the importation of salt. A resolution, submitted by Mr. Blaine, wasiadopted reqiuesting the President, if in His jhdgment not incompatible with public interests, to communicate to the Senate any information in. lposrsession_ of the Government touching the alleged false statistics and ftabricated testimony imposed upon the Halitax Comimission, and used as a basis of their award in the matter-of the fisheries. Adjourned to the 16th.... Resolutions were ‘adopted in the- House — authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish . the . States; for the use of agricultural colleges, one set of standard weights and measures; calling on the President for information as to the pending negotiations for a conange of treaty between the United States and the Government of China. A lengthy debate occurred in Committee of the ‘Whole on the revision of the rules onthe cglgstion of “riders” to Appropriation bills, which ended in the adoption of a substitute fora portion of the pending rule, providing that no provision in an Appropriation bill, or amendment thereto, changing cxisting law shall be in order, except that it shall be in order to reduce the amounts of money provided for by existing law and covered by a t*ill, and to that extent only to change the law. ! : THE Senate was not in session on the 13th....1n the House the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were non-concurred in. A bill was passed making an appropriation of $125,000 for the support. of certain Indian tribes during the present fiscal year. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Navy for all information and correspondence touching the IntemEtional Canal in possession of his Department and not previously published. The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter be=+ ing the regular order, Mr. Bright raised a %uestion of consideration against it, and the ouse refused—ayes, 41, noes not counted—to consider the bill. Adjourned, the session on the 14th to be for debate only. :

. . Domestic, : : DurinGg January there arrived at the pr of New York 7,512 passengers from fdTeign parts, of whom 5,839 were immigrants. Forthe twelve months endingdJ anuary 31, 1880, the arrivals were 179,855, of whom 142,453 were immigrants. During the preceding twelve months the immigrants numbered 82,125. ' . OvER $11,000,000 in bonds; were purchased in New York on the ‘llth, by the As- . sistant Treasurer of the United States, on sinking-fund account. : 3 A FEW nights ago burglars blew open the vault in ‘the National Bank building at Westport, Conn., but the concussion was o violent, that the villagers were aroused, and the cracksmen secured only $3,500 in money. ST. Louis dispatches of the 11th say -~ that J. P. Krueger, President of the Broadway Savings Bank of that city, which failed a year ago, had been found guilty of ‘swearing falsely to statements of the condition of the ‘bank, and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of $5OO. A CRAWFORDSVILLE (Ind.), Judge has lately decided, in accordance with a recent ruling of the State Supreme Court, that no prosecution could be maintained against licensed saloon-keepers for selling liquorto minors, or for keeping open on Sundays or after eleven o’clock at night. ; - Ox thellth a large crowd of men ‘and boys marched to: the office of the Central . Pacific Railroad Company in San Francisco, and demanded the immediate dismissal of all Chinamen employed by that = corporation. The Company took the demand under advisement. - . “ ATt the late meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen’s Association at Harvard, lil., . resolutions were adopted declaring that the use of oleomargarine is injurious ‘to health, ° and its sale should be _;‘egula‘f&d by law; recommending State Legislaturés to pass laws forbidding its sale as butter for human food; advising that its manufacture he carried on under the supervision of Boards of Health, - and advocating the passage of laws prohibit--ing the use of the word butter as applied to ‘any oily substance not the product of cream or milk, and requiring all' who manufacture, and all who sell, oleomargarine, whether by the package or otherwise, to mark on each and every package, wrapper or parcel containing the same, in plain, large and distinct letters, and in a conspicuous place, the word ‘‘ Oleomargarine.”’ s n Tae House Committee on Ways and Means disposed of the refunding question on . the 12th. The rate of interest was decided ix favor of three-gnd-a-halt per cent. by a vote ~ of eleven to two. The question of time was settled by the decisive vote of twelve to one in favor of a 20-40 bond. The interest on these bonds is to be paid quarterly, and fhey will be used in funding the fives and sixes, amounting tc ‘about $5 0,000,000. The committee decided - also to recommeng that authority be given wt“mfiedm‘y to issue $2OO, 000,000 of four-per-cent. Treasury notes, re- ~ deemable at pleasure, to assist the reduction of an annual interest burden in the manner proposed by Representative Kelley. , . ~ Tug President jssued a proclamation ~ on the 12th notifying all persons intending to - settle in the Indian Territory, in violation of ~ the laws, that they will be prevented from so doing by the military. forces of, the United - Axamo crowd of men and boys vis. e e e e T e e

n the 12th, and demanded their {mmediate lismissal.. It was believed that this demonvitration, as well as that of the day before di:vected against the Central Pacific Railroad ‘Company, was intended to influence the State [egislature in its action on the anti-Chinese bills pending before it. ° : . REPRESENTATIVES of the Ponca Indians appeared before the Senate Committee n Indian Affairs on the 13th and .alleged that, witen the Ponea chiefs signed the paper asking to be removed to the Indian Territory, ‘they did so under a misapprehension. They were unable to read, and the whites having the matter in charge deceived them as to the nature of the request to which they appended their marks. A LARGE number of ladies visted the Mayor of Buffalo, N. Y., on the 13th, and presented a petition signed by thousands of their sex, asking him to close the saloons in that city on Sunday. i At Chicago on the 13th a boy, aged fourteen, named Schoene, who some months before killed a companion with a club during a quarrel over a game of marbles, pleaded guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the Reform School. | . It is stated that St. Louis business men have decided to contribute a ship load of provisions for the relief of the suffering people of Ireland. - A . THE Secretary of the Treasury has given notice that, until further notice, proposals for the sale of $1,000,000 worth of bonds to the Government on sinking fund account will be received on Wednesday of each week at the Sub-Treasury in New York City. A RETIRED merchant in New York, named Thomas F. Phillips, aged sixty, was garroted and robbed in that city on the night of the 14th, by three colored women, who were arrested. " » . FRANK DILLINGHAM, the young man who brutally murdered his aunt in Londonderry, N. H., a few days ago, and was under arrest for the horrible crime, died on the 15th from the effects of a pistol-shot wound which he inflicted upon himself shortly after the murder. He had been a great reader of dime novels and such like literature. THREE men were recently suffocated: in Baltimore harbor by the exhalations from a barge load of night soil. : . JUDGE PIERCE, Circuit judge at Memphis, has recently decided that dealing in futures is gambling, and within the jurisdiction of the Grand Jury. KEMMLER, who killed his three 6hildren in Holyoke, Mass., last June, has been adjudged insane.

THE Empire Warehouse building, at the corner of Market and Jackson streets, Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th., The building was full of all kinds of merchandise, including a large quantity of liquors, the larger portion of which was consumed, inflicting a loss of $400,000. . A pIsSPATCH from Tucson, Arizonia, on the 9th, received on the 15th, says that Captain Rucker, after following a band of hostile Indians for two days, came suddenly upon them, strongly entrenched in a narrow canyon. ' The troops were received by.a heavy fire, under which several horses and men fell. The Indians then charged the troops, who gave way, and retreated pell-mell. The Indians drove the troops across the river. The rations and bedding were abandoned, which the Indians secured. A STRANGE and horrible homicide occurred in Rutherford County, N. C., the other morning. It seems that Johnson Quade, one of a gang of illicit distillers, was sitting in front of the still-house. 'A white man unknown to him came up and asked the loan of a knife. Quade took his knife from his pocket and loaned it to the man, who 'at once, without saying aword, jumped upon him and literally cut his throat from ear to ear. The murderer, with one bound, leaped from the midst of the crowd of distillers who gathered around him and escaped to the woods. - AKeEnTUCKY Legislative Committee has been making an investigation of the State Prison and reports: ‘“The condition of the Penitentiary at the present time is bad, and during the past year it was shamefully bad. We believe the condition is attributable to four causes, viz.: First, to the overcrowded condition of the prison; second, to defective sewerage; third, to the general want of cleanliness about the buildings, yards, etec.; fourth, to the want of proper diet for conviets.!? - ' At a recent work-or-bread meeting on the San Francisco sand-lots, Mayor Kalloch advised the people to be patient, and a female orator recommended violence.

: Personal and Political. IN executive session on the 11th the Senate rejected, by a strict party vote, all the President’s nominations for Census Supervisors' for the eight districts in Ohio, the Democrats claiming that the Executive, in nominating eight Republicans and not a single Democrat, had violated the spirit of the Census law, and ignored the distinct understanding of both parties in Congress, when the bill was passed, that Supervisors, as welj as enumerators, should be appointed irrespective of party affiliations. THE Wisconsin Assembly has, by a _vote of 90 to 6, adopted aresolution to amend the Constitution so as to provide for biennial | sessions. ' ! THE California Assembly has passed, and the Governor signed, the bill to enforce the clause of the new Constitution prohibiting the employment of Chinese in that State. o GOVERNOR CoORNELL, of New York, has signed the bill permitting women to vote for school officers. - THE National Democratic Committee will meet in Washington on the 23d, to fix the time and place for holding the next Demoeratic National Convention. THE New Hampshire State Republican Convention for the election of delegates to the Republican National Convention has been called to meet in Concord on the 6th of May. : | O the 12th the editor of the Hollister (Cal.) Enterprise was fatally shot by the editor of the Hollister Zelegraph. AT the recent session of the Dairymen’s Association at Haryard, 111., W. D. | Hoard, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., was elected | President; twenty well-known dairymen as Vice-President: R. P. McGlincy, of Illinois, Secretary; W. H. Stewart, of Illinois, Treasurer. A committee was also appointed to make arrangements for holding a Dairy Fair in Chicago some time during the fall of 1880, | Ir was reported from Washington on the 14th that Senator Blaine had stated, in an interview, that uander no cirecumstances will he allow his name to be used as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency in connection with | General Grant or anybody else. He will not | accept that nomination, if ‘he fails to get the first place, preferring to remain in active life - WaEN the new Clerk of a Cincinnati § Court presented himeelf at the office the

other day to enter upon the discharge of his dutiés the old official refused to recognize nim, claiming that he had not been duly elected and qualified. The Judge settled the dispute in short order by threatening to arraign the obstructionist for contempt, and declaring that he would recoznise the Clerkelect only. The latter was subsequently arrested for violating the law forbidding bribery and corruption in political campaigns.

: Foreign. B Ox the 11th a bill was introduced into the British House of Commons suspending the Eviction laws in Ireland for the period of twelve months. . ACCORDING to a St. Petersburg tele. gram of the 11th fears felt by the Czar for his personal safety, and for the security of his crown, were more manifest from day to day. It was stated that he distrusted his nearest attendants, and was constantly ordering changes to be made in the number of those who were about his person. THE French Ministry on the 11th formally declared, in the Chamber of Deputies, its opposition to plenary amnesty. THE London Times of the morning of the lithsays the arrival of an American man-of-war carrying food for the starving population of Ireland would be received as being also a message of good-will from America to England. " THE German Reichstag was opened on the 12th by a speech from the throne, read by Count von Stolberg. AccogpliNG to a Cabul dispatch of the 12th the rebels at Ghuzni had sustained a decided reverse at the hands of the British troops. . : ON the 12th a collision occurred on the Government Railway at Tantah, Egypt. Several persons were killed and many passengers more or less injured. It is officially stated that the total expenses and loss of resources to France from the Franco-German war was 13,939,000,000 franes. . : THE motion of Louis Blanc in the French Chamber of Deputies for full plenary amnesty was rejected on the 12th by a vote of 115. ayes to 313 noes. The Ministry sustained the negative. THE report that the Baroness Bur-dett-Coutts had given $2,500,000 to relieve the suffering in Ireland was a telegraphic error. The amount was $25,000. . ON the 13th a large meeting of unemployed workingmen was held in Dublin, at ‘which resolutions were adopted declaring that it was work, and not charity, that Irish laborers wanted. Ex-PRESIDENT GRANT and party sailed from Havana for Vera Cruzon the 13th. IT was reported in London on the 15th that Russia was endeavoring to negotiate a heavy loan in Paris and Berlin. PoTATOES to the amount of £lO,OOO in value have been purchased by the committee having charge of the Duchess of Marlborough Relief Fund, for distribution during the planting season in Ireland. A FEW days ago a number of brigands stopped a train between Andalusia and Madrid, Spain, but the passengers showed fight, and the robbers were driven off, several of them being wounded. THE Pope, in a recent encyclical letter, denounces civil marriages and divorce. THE Dublin correspondent of the London Times reported on the 15th that the general condition of Ireland had decidedly improved. Although severe distress was felt at many places, there was reason to believe that the whole aspect of the country had been improved, and. that relief easures had proved adequate to the emergency. ' . ACCORDING to Associated Press dispatches of the 14th the report that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts had given £500,000 for the relief of Ireland was, after all, substantially true. She had purchased -a large tract of land, and proposed to let it out to poor tenants in small holdings at nominal rent. SIR GARNET WOLSELEY has asked to be relieved from command in Natal and Transvaal. :

o Later News. A DusBLIN dispatch of the 16th says it was the opinion of the Duchess of Marlbgrough that if the charity of the public continued no person in Ireland need be allowed to die for lack of faod. She estimated that £40,000 a week must be expended in relief measures for six weeks to come.’ In the British House of Commons on the evening of the 16th Sir Stafford Northcote announced that the Gevernment would make an advance of £750,000 to Ireland. . A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE was appointed in the United States Senate on tne 16th on the disagreement of the House to the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropristion bill. Several bills were introduced in the House, among which were: To repeal the duties on medicines; reducing the duty on iron and steel; admitting free of duty machinery for manufacturing cotton fabrics. The bill prohibiting the publication of lottery schemes in the District of Columbia was ordered engrossed and read a third time. IN his sermon on the 15th Spurgeon, the great London preacher, said England’s rulers were making bloody wars and oppressing nations; that they encouraged and consoled themselves with the reflection that ‘““We are a great people, and, by Jingo, do what we like, it will all come right in the end;”” but they should remember that pride went before a fall. . AN Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 16th says several of the native chiefs had revolted against King John,.of Abyssinia, and that his power was seriously threatened. Ur to the 15th the subscriptions to the N. Y. Herald’s Irish relief fund amounted to a little over $200,000. ’ : A Sax FraANcClsco dispatch of the 16th says several large manufacturing establishments had shut down and dismissed their hands, and would not resume until the validity of the Anti-Chinese law had been passed upon. ‘ : e - CHARLES LANE, who recently removed from Maryland to Bainbridge, Pa., killed his wife on the 15th, then gave poison to his three children and took a quantity himself. Only one child survived, and its feet were 80 badly frozen that it was thought it ‘must die. : ~ THE Superintendent of the Census, in a circular to Supervisors, issued on the 16th, says the appointment of enumerators must be non-partisan. He is aware of* no reasons existing in the law for regarding women as ineligible for appointment as enumerators. Each BSupervisor must be the judge for himself whether such appointments in any number would be practically advantageous in his district. Itfs Qlé;;f,x!n many regtzim such sgp&@mm. would be highly objectionable, but the SuperIntendent 1 nor prapared. o sy hat otul tieflm@bé found where i %&M% Neisn osis he sovuieon by reason O o bex Of the enuineraior,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A rßre broke out in Talbot’s Block, in Indianapolis, on the morning of the 6th, which before it could be extinguished, destroyed the upper stories. The second and. third floors were occupied by the Medical Colege of Indiana, and the grand and subordinnate lodge balls of the Knights of Pythias, both of which were entirely destroyed, including the records of the latter. The loss on the building iz estimated at $lO,OOO to #15,000. The Medical College’s loss is $4,000. The Knights of Pythias’ loss is $2,500. The store-rooms below were occupied by the Central bank; J. E. Powers, groceries; Wheeler & Wilson, sewing machines; Davis & Bros., groceries; the Central Printing Company, Indiana Farmer, all of which were damaged by water. The second story was occupied by insurance and other offices, including the New York Life, Mutual Benefit, of Newark, N. J;, Beardsley & Moore, general insurance agents; Richardson & Kothe, general insurance agent; A. E. Percell, dental office; Pheenix Life Insurance Company—all damaged more or less by water. EARLY on the morning of the 9th fire consumed Florence Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church, situated in Authony, a town suburban to South Muncie. When first discovered the fire was on the outside of the building. The church was located in the roughest portion of Muncie, and severzal roughs hold.a spite against the society on account of having been reported to the authorities for disorderly conduct during the past three or four years. Other indications point to the fire originating from an incendiary torch. : } THE grain elevator at Lebanon, occupied by Bryan & Alexander, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 9th. It contained 4,00 bushels of wheat, 6,000 bushels of corn and a less quantity of rye and oats—all local loss. There was $4,000 insurance on the grain, but no insurance on the building, which was valued at $l,OOO, and owned by William Zion. The cause of the fire is not known. :

A GErRMAN farmer named Fingerly, residing north of Indianapolis, went out on the 9th and, seating himself in the forks of a tree, shot himself in the left temple, producing instant death. His body was found next morning. He leaves a family, who cannot, account for his deed. ; : MRg. AND Mrs. Noan BECK, of -Goshen, while returning from the country on the evening of the 10th in a carriage, were run into by two runaway farmers’ teams and both injured. Mrs. Beck was unconscious for some time. She is seriously, and it is feared dangerously, injured internally. One horse belonging to a farmer dropped dead from exhaustion after running two miles from the scene of the accident. ; Tue old bottling establishment of Peter Freick at Evansville was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10th. The loss was about $13,000. - Schonhauser’s china store adjoining was considerably damaged also. : _ | OX the evening of the 9th a three-year-old son of John Griffy, residing in Anthony town, a suburb of South Muncie, scalded himgelf almost to instant death by pulling a cof-fee-pot filled with boiling coffee off the stove, the contents of which cooked the child’s head and body almost to a crisp. WaiLE Charles White was carelessly handling a revolver at Crawfordsville the other night, one barrel was discharged, shooting William Nash, a well-known citizen. The ball passed through the right lung. Two BILLS making Indianapolis a port of entry are now before Congress. THE following call for a State Convention of the National Greenback-Labor party has been issued: : A Convention of the National GreenbackLabor parta‘ of Indiana will be held at Indianapolis on Thursday, April 2, 1880, at which time and place candidates for the various State offices to be voted for in October will be nominated. The Convention will assemble at ten o’clock at a place to be hereafter named. The basis of representation in the Convention is as follows, to wit: . One delegate for each 100 votes or fraction thereof greater than fifty cast for Henley James for Secretary of State in 1878, and one delegate at large for each county, with one additional delegate for counties having a 8 population of more then 10,000, and two from counties with more than 20,000 inhabitants.

In counties where conventions for the selection of delegates shall not previously have been called by County Central Committees, all voters who believe that all money, whether gold, silver or paper should be issuied by the General Government, and that it should be e%ually a full legal tender in payment of debts; who are opgosed to banks of issue, the perpetuity of the bonded indebtedness of the Nation, the rearousing of sectional hatred, and who are convinced of the folly of longer striving to overthrow these obstacles to human progress through old party organizations are requested to meet at their respective county seats at ten o’clock’ on Saturday, April 3, and select delegates to represent them at the State Convention as above. By order of the State Central Committe. C. C. Post, Chairman. F. D. SOMERBY, Secretary. Scort COOPER, a young man who has been dealing pretty extensively in hogs for four or five months, was robbed of three thousand dollars at Brookville, a few nights ago. He boarded at the Central House, but roomed alone over Hartman’s grocery store. His room was entered by three masked men, about three o'clock in the morning, who bound and gagged him, then threw the bedclothes over his head and searched the room, finding the above amount. _APPLICATION has been made to the United States Court at Indianapolis by John Ogilvie, of Montreal, for the appointment of a receiver of the Watson Coal and Mining Company, pending proceedings to foreclose a mortgage securing a note for $62,000 held by Ogilvie, for money claimed to have been advanced by Ogilvie to Thomas Watson, President; for the benefit of the company. Ogilvie is Watson’s son-in-law. The company is one of the largest concerns in the block coal country. ; EpwArDp WILTON, banker boss of the Buckeye Coal Mine, in Brazil, was so badly crushed by the falling slate on the 12th that he will probably die. THE guestion has been raised whether F. C Johnson, the Census Supervisor of the New Albany distriet, can hold the office without surrendering his Trusteeship of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. . THE following are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, N 0.2 Rdd, [email protected]; Corn, 85}4@86}¢c; Oats, 34@37c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, [email protected]; Corn, 39@39%4c; Oats, 33@39c; Rye, 8@ 8514 c; Barley, 84@S414ec. : » —The conductor of a certain train on the Union Pacific Railroad charges that a fly having alighted on one of the glasses of the engineer’s spectacles, the engineer thought it was a buffalo on the track ahead, and turned on the airbrakes to avert a disaster. The engineer retorts that one night the conductor saw what he thought was the headlight of an approaching locomotive. He kept his own train waiting a while, and then, somewhat confused, started her. ‘He is the safest man | everran with,” 3,“11., engineer. ¢ Venus is millions of miles away, and he waited twelve minutes on a side-track to allow her to

The Harrisburg Convention, We are afraid the result at Harrisbu? is one of those victories that are said to be worse than defeats. When a Republican Convention in the second State in the Union instructs its delegates for Grant by a vote of 133 to 113 the bottom may be said to have dropped out of *‘ the tremendous popular enthusiasm'’ of which we have heard so much, and that carefully Wotged-up humbug vanishes into the thinnest of thin air. An ordinary candidate could afford to be content with a bare majority of twenty, but Grant is not an ordinary candidate. Not only is he weighted down with the scandals of his eight years Administration—scandals which produced a formidable revolt in his party—but he is endeavoring to overturn and override a precedent which Washington and Jefferson established, and which has heretofore been considered not less sacred than the organic law of the land. Thus incumbered his chances of success in the Presidential race are at best but small, and if to enter the race at all he is obliged to bring discord into the Republican ranks, these chances disappear alto%ether and he is beaten in advance. he third-term movement crigwated in the idea that Republicans were gractically a unit in favor of it, and that Grant could not consistently refuse to yield to the unanimous pressure; a pressure which justifies him in doing what none of his predecessors had ventured to do. Twenty majority in Pennsylvania pricks the bubble of falsehood and reveals the real truth of the matter: which is, that to nominate a thirdterm candidate at Chicago he must be literally rammed down the party throat.

Now while there is no sort of doubt that Grant strongly desires the nomination; and from the day he left the Executive chair has arranged all his plans with a view of returning to it, yet perhaps he is wise enough to know that he cannot afford to.scramble for the coveted prize, even if absolutely sure of obtaining it. It would be suicidal folly in -him to descend into the political arena and fight for a ticket in the Presidential lottery. If he drew the prize it would lose half its value in his own and the world’s estimation, and if he did not draw it his reputation would suffer jrreparable injury. Such, at least, is the opinion lately expressed by some of his most intimate and unselfish friends, and we will assume that’ he agrees with them. But we may be entirely mistaken, and a vexi)f7 few days will decide the question. If, with tge result of the Pennsylvania Convention before him, Grant still allows his name to be used, the case will be perfectly clear, and Democrats' may prepare to enjoy the Republican circus—and a very large and lively circus it promises to be. Hitherto the anti-third-term Republicans have had no rallying point, and apparently no disposition to rally. But the battle at Harrisburg, by displaying the latter in unmistakable form, has provided the former. The hundred and thirteen anti-third-termers there will crystalize the opposition everywhere; give it pith and purpose, a loud voice and a strong arm. Those who have been-backward in coming forward will draw courage from this example, and not only step boldly to the front but make themselves felt as well as heard. ~But we trust that the change of ‘“the boom” into a boomerang will not entirely destroy the third-term programme. We trust that Grant will not be frightened off the track, and that in every Republican State Convention the machine may operate as nicely as it did in Pennsylvania, and pull him through “by the skin of his teeth’’—-leaving Chicago to cap the climax in the same fashion. Then the people will have an opportunity to sit down vigorously upon third-termism and all the other odorous ““jsms’’ which attach to Grant; and that this opportunity will be promptly and satisfactorily improved is about as certain as anything in the future can be. Cameren and his clan are entitled to the thanks of every Democrat, for the Pennsylvania performance—if Grant will only stick—insures Democratic success next November.—St. Lruis Repubdcan. .

A Bit of Secret History. The following telegram from New York appears in & recent issue of the. Washington (D. C.) Post: In connection witn the Post's late biography of Governor Seymour and the statement contained therein that he received on frequent occasions the warmest expressions of gratitude and approbation from President Lincoln and his Cabinet, a curious piece of political history has been made public. .In 1864, when Lincoln supposed it was not impossible that Judge Chase would defeat him for the i{epublican nomination, he looked about for a patriotic and popular Democrat for whom the whole strength of the Administration could, in an emergency, be thrown. Mr. Lincoln not only distrusted Judge Chase’s fidelity to what he considered cardinal principles, but his judgment as well, and was known to have expressed to a number of personal friends the gravest apprehensionsin the eventof his being placed in the Executive chair. Mr. Lincoln, therefore, wrote to Mr. Seymour, who has it now in his possession, a long letter in which the proposition was made and urged apon him with great force and logic that he should become a candidate for the Presidency on as hi%? 8 party plane as possible, so that he could’ receive the support of such Republicans as considered the success of the Union cause paramount i importance to the schemes of mere political tricksters or Southern haters. This solicitation of Mr. Lincoln’s was joined in by Secretary Stanton, and, as may be readily inferred, the reasons given for selecting him were of the most complimentary character. Mr. S_egrmour received the suggestions with his usual modesty, but aeclined in 8 most peremptory manner to consider it, urging that his du;y to the peogle of the State of New York required him to serve out his term as Governor, and precluded his seeking or permitting other honors to be imposed | ‘,gfon him. To Mr. SBeymour’s answer r. Lincoln replied in a second letter, nrm that the mmmanshis then re- | quired dm&fid&iahé%xg duty than | party consideration of State pride, and. reiterated the confidence of the people.

fair dealing to all classes’and interests. Mr. Se{rmour was. proof against all these solicitations, and it was upon his ipflexible refusal to become a candidate that Mr. Lincoln addressed himself to the task of securing the renomination of his own party and defeating Mr. Chase's ambition. There are gentlemen in this city to whom, under the seal of confidence, Mr. Symour has shown these two letters, and it is supposed that they will only be given to the. public when%is reminiscenses of the war period, which it is understood he is leisurely compiling, shall be pubtished. e T A Speech by Mr. Tilden. - Turning over a pile of pamphlets, long since accumulated and forgotten, we come upon -me which, a“.er the passage of a uuuzen years sincs- it was printed, pres3nts matter of interest today. Itisa speech by Samuel J. Tilden to his neighbors of Columbia County, and is entitled ‘¢ Taxation in the United States—lts Enormous Burden Upon the Productive Labor of Our Country—llts Continuance Unnecessary —-How the Evil May be Remedied by a Change of Measures and of Men.” It was an appeal for the election of Seymour over Grant, and we venture to say that no appeal of thai campaign possessed greater‘ weight ghan this, Mr. Tilden said that while many illusions that were personal had passed from his mind in the course of years, he still clung to the hope that this country would remain free, self-governed and uncorrupted,. ‘‘as 2 man clings to the only fresh and unbroken hope there is in life. I trust,”’ he contifiue‘g, ‘‘that that, too, is not to be disappointed. At all events, whatever others may do, I shall eling to it to the last. At the cost of much sacrifice of time, business and comfort, I have once more taken the field to help my Democratic friends tocarry out these principles which they and I were devoted to in our youth, and which T have endeavored, and, With the blessings of God, shall endeavor to press. forwarg unto success.’” » Such’was the spirit of this speech—and the prophecy of evil which was made then in case of -Grant’s elevation. to the Presidency, has been more than fulfilled; and yet again, at the end of a decade, full ufy ‘shame and disaster, the same issues are presented in the threatened candidacy of the same man. ~ Mr. Tilden drew a terrible picture of the weight of taxation under which our people were groaning, ‘%'eater by far than that -of England or France; and of the increasing extravagance and eorruptions of government.. He dwelt especially upon the enormous and unnecessary expense of maintaining a large army, not to meet foreign aggression, but to further designs unknown or unavowed; and he declared that the only remedy consisted in cutting down. estab¥ishments, reducing jeXpen?iitnfres, and returning to the simplicity and economy of better days. -~ =~ . ¢ Shall you have peace throughout the South,” said he, ¢ shall you allow its industries to revive; shall you allow it to help gou pay the necessary taxes; .shall you disband your army, cut down the hordes of unnecessary and corrupt officials that charge you with these expenses, and return to the simple and pure system of your fathers, or shall you go on till the tax gatherer shall haunt you—the specter of a betrayed and ruined country? The pretense is that the South will go into another war. Nothing was ever more ridiculous. I tell you to-day that the South is so subju%ated and so exhausted that it will submit to almost anything—that it will submit to what no man ought to—that it will submit to what would ({Aave made the blood of your fathers curdle in their veins if they thought you yourselves would consent to submit to it.”’ -

But the most notable passage of this notable speech of twelve years ago was the closing one, every word of which might have been framed as a Warning agaiust the open and aonstrous attac upoz our free institutions, which every commonly intelligent man must see in the present attempt to secure a third term for that very soldier whom M. Tilden then declared to be unfitted, both by education and association. for the first one: : _ v **Let us go forward to the ballot box, and with united action and with one voice putinto the great trusts of the Government men who believe as we do and who will give their efforts to restore the Government towhat it wasin the days of our fatherB. [Applause. A voice—‘God. grant itl'] Yes, as my friend in the audience gays, *God grant ‘it!’ There is no prayer that would ascend to the throne of the Eternal purer of all selfishness, full of more devoted patriotism, full of more benevolence Toward the masses of mankind here and in ovher countries, and in all future ages, than ‘the prayer which my friend here in the audienge puts up: ‘God grant it!’ |Cheers.] Feplow citizens, I can imagine: that from the ethereal heights the men that made this Government—your Washingtons, your Jeffersons, your Madisons—look down to see whether this generation is to fail in transmitting to their escendants the priceless irheritance of .Constitutional government. Washington himself —his tall and peerless form leans over from the midst of those patriots and statemen ‘of the Revolution, to see to-day what we are sbout to do. Shall we prove ourselves worthy of the ancestry? Ifso, then there will be hope not only for this country but for the oppressed and down-trodden in every clime and in every ages s o ¢ - o = Such was Mr. Tilden's appeal in 1868, before his warfare upon Tammany Hall and the destruction of the Tweed Ring, and before he went to Albany as Governor to grapple with the Canal Ring, and to put in practice within the State of New York some of the precepts he then advanced.—N. Y. Sun.

—The Agriculturist says that if the litter is cut into three inch lengths, or: even smaller, it will hold more moisture, will make better and finer manure, and will keep the animals cleaner than longer litter. The gain in the quality of t%e manure, in one year, the saving in time in the handling, and increased effectiveness of it, will pay §§flod interest on the cost of a windmill and a fodder cutter to do the cutting. Butif the stormy and disagreeable days are chosen to cut up straw for this purpose, an abundant supply can be made. A broad ax can be purchased for two-dol-lars and fifty cents, and with this and a block, a sheaf of straw may be cut into two inch chaff, in half a minute. Two persons, one to hold the sheaf on the block or gl‘a’nk; and the other to use theax, would soon out up a ton of straw. Where hard-wood saw-dust, dry swamp muck, or pine straw.can be é)romre&,} ‘ these make excellent litter and manure. . —Horse shoes are made fiLflw yrought iron except ‘when a horse throws one. Thop Wk lnanst . 0 Lo el