Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 March 1880 — Page 2

The Eigonier Banmer, ; J. B, STOLL, Edlt't')r’ and Propljm;r. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. % el ——— : _ Congressional. 1N the Senate on the 26th the Senate bill to authorize a refunding to postmasters of funds or valuable letters lost or stolen was reported from commi , With an amendment. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Ndvy to transmit to the Senate any information in the possession of the Department in relation to the . present condition of affairs in Alaska. Eulogies on the late Senator Houston, of Alabama,“ were delivered by Messrs. 'Morgau, Hamlin; Thurman, Davis (11.), Saulsbury, Pendleton and Pryor, after which the eustomary resolutions were adooted. <+ Mr. Warnerintroduced a joint resolution in the House re-affirming the Monroe {doctrine, and declaring that the con{trol _of any interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien, while open to the United States and all Nations equally, musta in the interest of ourselves and the world, be kept under the special protection of the United states. Mr. Reagan, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, reported bills relating to the regulation of inter-State commerce. The * Star Service’ Deficiency bill was further considered and amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed; the bill as finally passed is in the nature of a substitute for the .ori&\inal bill reported, and ap,prOlJriates $970,000 to meet the exgenses of the inland mail transportation for the remainder of the fiscal year at the different contract prices as they existed February 1, 1880, with the provision that upon any route where there has “been an tnorease of the original contract price for expediting the mail at a rate of more than $2,500 Per annum the compensation for the expedition shgll be reduced to the terms of the original colm-act after March 1 next, but the number of trips shall remain tbe same during the remainder of the present fiscal year, - : el THE joint resolution of the Wiscon‘sin Legislature, deprecating any financial legislation as likely to endanger the prosperity of the country, was presented in the Senate on the 27th ult. Mr. Walker, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported a substitute for the House bill for the - establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other lgurpqses. On motion of Mr. Voorhees the bill admitting free of duty c¢lothin and other charitable contributions from a‘{)road. for the relief of colored emigrants in Kansas was taken up and passed. Mr. Edmund’s motion to reconsider the vote by which the Five-{mr-cent. bill was indefinitely postponed was aken up, and, after debate, the motion to reconsider was itself postponed until the second Monday in December next. Proposed amendments to the Star Route Deficiency ApR{ropriation bill were introduced by Messrs. axeg, Teller, Saunders and Garland, and referred to the Committee oh Appropriations. Adjourned to the 18t....A bill was passed in the House amending Section 3,020 of the Revised Statutes, 8o as to provide that where cans manufactured wholly or in part of imported material, ti'led with products grown or produced in th. United States, and exported for the benefit of the drawback granted by section 3,019, tne same shall in all cases be entitled to the drawback rtprovided for in that section, when the imported material used in the manufacture of such cans.shall equal seventy per cent. of all the material used in the manufacture thereof. The detailed consideration of the profposed new rules was finished in Committee of the Whole, and they were reflorted, as amended in committee, to the ouse, when Mr. Blackburn gave notice that he would ask final action upon them on the 2d.. Adjourned to the Ist. i

i Domestic, ~ ON the 26th one thousand employes ‘of the Harmony mills at Cohoes, N. Y., gtruck for an advance of ten per cent. in their ‘wages and one hour instead of thirty minutes for dinner. g ; TREASURY officials estimated on the 26th that the entire receipts 'of the Govern‘ment from customs, m't’er‘nal revenue and other sources for the-yéar ending June: 30 will be about $300,000,000, and that the total expenditures for the same time, including the sinking fund and interest on the public debt, will amount to .about $275,000,000, leaving a profit to the Government of about $25,000,000. : B DuriNG the first seven months of the present fiscal year 130,000,000 postal cards were disposed of. 3 ; A NEW $lO counterfeit United States Treasury note made its appearance in Chicago on the 26th. The new deceiver is of/(the series of 1875, letter C, and the most striking feature about it is its color, which is considerably darker than that of the genuine. The paper crumples with a snap when handled, and #the dark fiber lines, instead of being worked into the paper, as in a genuine bill, are simply printed.on the face in imitation of the correct:thing.. There are a number of minor discrepancies which are readily detected on closer examination. = The word “geries,” for instance, in the Jlower center of the bill, is made up of letters fully a third larger than those in the genuine, while the words at the top, ‘“‘Engraved and Printed at Bureau Engraving and Printing,” tip over until they almost assume the italic character; .whereas in the genuine they are very clearly Roman. The number, too, is even, when on the note with this letter it should be odd. - THE Secretary of the Treasury has ‘directed the suspension of the order of November 3, 1879, prohibiting the importation of neat cattle from the Dominion of Canada. THE Postmaster-General has suspended his order prohibiting the payment of money orders to the lottery agerfts, who have appealed to the Supreme Court of the United #tates, until the case is decided by tha@ tribunal. R PosTMASTER-GENERAL KEY issued an orderon the 28th ult. to the effect that, in consideration of the action of the Housein appropriating $1,070,000 for the continuance of the “star service,” and pending the action of the Sendte, further action under his order of the 20th directing that, on and after the .Ist of Mavch, the mail service on * sgtar routes” should be reduced to ome trip per week, ete., should be suspended until further notice. : T THE regular winter packing season in Chicago ended on *the night of the 20th ult. The number of hogs packed since November 1 was 2,378,000, against 2,948,115 for the corresponding season a year ago. A LeAavENworTH (Kansas) dispatch of the 20th ult. says some of the resident negroes had formed a secret organization to discourage further emigration of negroes from the South. ‘TwoO CAR LOADS of Chinamen, bound from Ban Francisco to New York, passed ‘through Bt. Louis on the 29th ult. = It was reported on the 29th ult. that two companieg of troops had bebn ordered to Coffeyville, and two companies to Caldwell, Kan., near the Indian Territory line, to intercept the bands of squatters who were expected to invade the Territory as soon as the weather would permit. : _ ; A BsNOW-SLIDE near Salt Lake on the ®7th ult. buried six men and several teams. Four of the men were rescued alive. A A YouNe man died in New York State on the 29th ult. from the effects of stimulants administered during a twenty-seven hours’ the 29th ult. Kearney: and other speakers de-

nied that violenee had ever been contemplat-. ed, and asserted shatif the peace were threatened the workingmen themselves would serve as a Sheriff's posse. & ACCORDING to a recent report of the Comptroller of the Currency the amount of additional circulation issued during February was $708,490; amount surrendered and destroyed, $797,412; amount of legal tender notes on deposit for the purpose of retiring National Bank circulation, $18,365,257. The increase in the National Bank | circulation during the = year ending March 1 was $17,631,617; increase in legaltender notes deposited during the same period, $6,052,445. The total amount of National Bank notes outstanding March 1 was $342,210,867, not including circulation of National Gold Banks, which amount to $l,428,120. United States currency outstanding on the 28th ult.: Old demand notes, $61,255; legal-tender notes, all issues, $346,681,016; one-year notes of 1863, $47,525; two-year coupon notes of 63, $23,350; compound-inter-est mnotes, $250,480: fractional currency, all issues, $15,631,385; total, $362,708,591. FIvE barges, containing 250,000 bushels of corn, left Bt. Louis. recently for New Orleans, where the cargo will be transferred to vessels bound for Europe. IT is reported from New York. that water gas can be manufactured for forty cents per thousand feet. The New York Gas Company has secured the right and proposes to furnish cheap illumination henceforth. OVER two hundred emigrants passed through Omaha, Neb., on the 27th ult., en routs to the East, from California. Among them were forty Chinamen bound for New York City. ‘ EpwaArp DouaLAss, of Philadelphia, and Frank Harris, of Jersey City, indulged-in a prize-fight in the former city a few days ago. Both men were terribly punished, and Harris had his skull fractured, sustaining fatal injuries. ; ; A woMAN who claimed to be the widow of Joseph L. Lewis (the Hoboken millionaire, who left his property, valued at $l,000,000, to'the United States), and who some time ago laid claim to the dead man’s estate on the ground of being his wife, recently turned States’ evidence at Trenton, N. J., implicating the parties whose dupe she had been, and detailing, apparently = without reservation, her own part in the matter. The confession created a decided sensation. IN the summer of 1877 the wages of employes on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad were reduced ten per cent. About a year later one-half of this reduction was restored, and the other half has recently been added to the pay of the men.

Personal and Political. THE 'Republicans of Vermont, in State Convention at Montpelier on the 25th, elected John Gregory Smith, Frederick Billings, J. W. Stewart and George W. Hooker as delegates-at-large to the Republican National Convention, and adopted a platform. A resolution was also adopted presenting to the Republicans of the country George F. Edmunds as a suitable person te be made the candidate of the Republican party for next President. THE Illinois Republican Central Committee met in Chicago on the 25th and decided to call the State Convention to meet at Springfield on the 19th of May. DistricT delegates to the Republican National Convention were chosen in Indiana on the 25th. Four districts favored Blaine and one Sherman; in the others no instructions were given. ' TeE New York State Republican Convention met at Utica on the 25th, and organized by the choice of Hon. Charles E. Smith as temporary Chairman, and afterwards as permanent Chairman. There was a fight over the admission of delegates from Oneida County, which was settled by admitting the delegation headed by Senator Conkling. Resolutions pledging the Electoral vote of the State to ex-President Grant; declaring that the New York Republicahs”!osed‘ absolute trust in his honesty, his fidelity, his serene judgment and solid intelligence; insisting that the objection-to a third President: ial term applied only to a- third consecutive term, and instructing the delegates to the National Convention to use their most earnest and united efforts to secure the nomination of General U. 8. Grant, were adopted amid considerable confusion. A motion to strike out the name of General Grant and substitute that of James G. Blaine was defeated, by a vote of yeas, 180; nays, 217. A motion instructing the delegates to vote for Blaine if General Grant were not nominated was tabled on motion of Benator Conkling. The dele-gates-at-large were elected as follows: Roscoe Conkling, A. B. Cornell, C. A. Arthur and James D. Warren. Presidential Electors and a State Central Committee were also appointed. ;

THE following were elected as members of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee by twelve of the District Conventions held on the 25th: First District, H. 8. Bennett, Vanderburg; Second, Robert Evans, Knox; Third, W. M. Hurley, Floyd; Fifth, J. 8. Jordan, Morgan; Sixth, Isaac Jenkinson, Wayne; Seventh, John C. New, Marion; Eighth, H. H. Boudinot, Vigo; Ninth, A. L. Kumler, Tippecanoe; Tenth, M. W. Tomlinson, Cass; Eleventh, Alexander W. De Long, Huntington; Twelfth, Robert.Stratton, Allen; Thirteenth, W. C. Graves, Kosciusko. THE lowa Democratic State Convention to select delegates to the Demoeratic National Convention has been called to meet at Burlington ou the 7th of April. GENERAL ADAMS arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the 26th, with Chief Douglass, the Ute, and, leaving the savage there a prisoner, proceeded on his way to Washington. TaHE Woman’s Suffrage Association of New York held a congratulatory meeting on the night of the 26th over the enactment of the law allowing women to vote for school officers. - ' THE Texas Republican State Convention to appoint delegates to the National Convention will meet at Galveston on the 24th of March. 0 : Ox the 26th the Louisiana Senate adopted a resolution suspending several Senators because they signed a memorial to the United States Senate favoring Senator Kellogg. They also directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep them in custody until further orders. . | ; - - THE Rhode Island Republican State Convention for the nomination of State officers and the appointment of delegates to the Chicago Convention will be held on the 18th of March. ; ; : 10 : A WASHINGTON telegram of the 27th ult. says the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs was unanimous in favor of the confirmation of ex-Congressman Trowbridge as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. : THE President on the 27th ult. sent to the Senate the nomination of P. B. 8. Pinchback to be Naval Officer at New Orleans., e e

A JUDGE of election # Cumberland County, 111., was recently sentenced, in the United Btates District Court at Bpringfield, to five months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5O), for violating the United States Election law. His offense was the substitution of Foreign. ; A GreEK was arrested at Constantinople on the 25th for having in his possession an “infernal machine’’ designed for an attack ‘upon -the Sultan. ‘ A LAHORE (India) telegram of the 25th says another battle had been fought at Herat between the Cabul 'and Herat troops, in which the former were defeated. ON the 25th at Pontadoan, in County Armagh, Ireland, a tenant-right meeting was attacked by a mob composed of Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who stormed the platform and swept from it the speakers and officers of the meeting, and afterward assailed the tenant-righters. A number of the latter were seriously wounded, - A RISING of the Mussulman population has occurred in the Kirdualy district in .Roumelia. ' THE Dublin Freeman’s Journal, which had been silent regarding Parnell’s course in America, published a leader on the 20th, denouncing that agitator in the most stinging terms. The Journal denies Parnell’s statement concerning the Duchess of Marlborough’s Committee, and characterizes his attack upon the Mansion House Committee as an outrage on decency and agross and shamelesslibel on an assembly of gentlemen. The Journal further states that the Mansion House had secured $400,000 for relief, the Duchess of Marlborough %350,000, and Parnell only $70,000. The article further states that Parnell had estranged every respectable sympathizer from his cause, and there would doubtless be a formidable row when he returned. AN Imperial ukase was published at Bt. Petersburg on the evening of the 26th de.creeing the establishment of a Supreme |Executive Commission to preserve in the State order and social tranquility, under the Presidency of General Melikoff, who is to appoint other members of the commission, with the Czar’s approval. The commission is to have supreme authority in all matters throughout Russia, and is empowered to punish any disregard of its orders, which can only be abrogated by.lmperial decree. THE famine in Persia has assumed frightful proportions. The people are said to be parting with everything portable to procure food and shelter, and many, despairing of outside aid, have sought surcease of suffering by committing suicide. . ‘VERA SASSULITCH, the female Nihilist who in 1878 attempted the assassination of the Prefect of St. Petersburg, and who was acquitted by a jury, to the amazement of the authorities, has been re-arrested. GENERAL MELIKOFF, the newly-ap-pointed Governor-General of Bt. Petersburg, issued a proclamation to the people on the evening of the 27th ult. In this manifesto he says that he can not and will not hesitate to take most severe and far-reaching and stringent measures for the punishment of criminals who are now threatening social order throughout the Capital and in other seetions of the Empire. ‘I well know how,” he says, ‘“not only to trace these miscreants to their lurking place, but to inflict upon them exemplary and condign punishment when they are brought before me. No plea of mitigation on the part of these criminals will avail with me. They have already been treated with too much indulgence, and they now are to be stamped out as enemies alike of God and man, as well as beasts for whom extermination is the only treatment.’” General Melikoff’s proclamation was published in the newspapers and placarded on the walls of the city. ! THE St. Gotthard Tunnel was finished on the 29th ult. . - " TwoMEMBERS of the Russian Legation in Constantinople were fired on in the streets of that city on the 20th ult. One was wounded. Their assailants effected their escape.

LATER NEWS IN West Virginia some months ago a negro was convicted of murder. The Judge presiding, in accordance with the State law, excluded colored men from the jury, end the Court of Appeals sustained the ruling. On the Ist the United States Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the courts below, and pronounced the trial and conviction ot .the prisoner illegal, because he was, by the exclusion of his own race from the jury, denied the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Virginia case, where a negro murderer had been ftried by 'a jury composed entirely of white men, the State laws containing no prohibition on colored citizens from soserving. The Supreme Court pronounces the action of Judge Rives, of the Federal bench, in removing the case to his court for trial, wrong. In the case of the State Judge who presided in the last-men-tioned trial, who was arraigned for persistently excluding colored men from juries, the law not requiring it, it was held that the complaints against him were well founded. ‘ln the case of Davis, a Deputy Collector in a Tennessee district, who while on a raid killed a moonskiner and was indicted for murder in a State court, it was decided that the killing was done by him as an officer of the United States in the discharge of his duty, and that, if the provocation had not been sufficient, he would have been amenable to Federal and not State law. Justice Field dissented. ; THE public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (including interest of $17,116,787), $2,191,463,874. Cash in Treasury, $196,351,658. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,995,112,221. Decrease during February, $5,672,120. Decrease since June 30, 1879, $32,095,035. THE Hull (England) District Bank suspended on the Ist. It had a nominal capital of $420,000. ; SEVERAL petitions were presented in the United States Senate on the Ist for the admission, free of duty, of substances fised in-making paper. The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was taken up, and Mr. Randolph made a speech in support of his proposed substitute for the Committee bill, ‘which substitute authorizes the President to nominate Porter as a Colonel of infantry, his commission to date .from January, 1863, and to retire him according to Ilaw. Several Dbills were introduced in the ‘House, among which were the following: Repealing all acts granting lands in the Indian Territory to railroads conditioned on the extinguishmefit of the Indian titles; abolishing all tariff duties on printing-type, tracechains and agricultural implements; placing on the free list materials used in the manufacture of paper; admitting steam-plow machinery, ete., free of dmz' to reorganize the ‘militia of the United Sfates. Mr Weaver _asked unanimous consent for a vote upon his .&mea Greenback resolutions, but Mr. ‘McLane objected to even having them read.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. THE following are the proposed Cobstitu_tional amendments to be submitted to the veople of Indiana at the April election: AMENDMENT NO 1. rofm!md Section 2 of Article 2 80 a 3 to read as - " SECTION 2. In all elections not otherwise _provided for by this Constitution, every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-ong(ream and upward, and who shall have resided in the State six months and in the Township sixty days, and in the Ward or Precinct thirty days immediately preceding such election, and every male of foreign birth, of the age of twentg-one years and upward, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the Township gixty days, and in the Ward or Preeinct thirty days immediately preceeding said election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the Township or Precinct where he may reside, if he shall have. been duly registered according to law. AMENDMENT NO. 2 provides for striking out the words: *“No negro or mulatto shall have the right of suffragei" oontamed in Section b, of the second Artiole of the Constitution. AMENDMENT NO. 3. fidmend Section 14 of the second Article to read: : Section 14. All general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, but Township elections mar be held at such time as may be Irovided by -law. Provided that the General ssemblfi mt:rprovide by law for the election of a Judges of courts of feneral and anellate jurisdiction by an election to be held for such officer only, at which time no other officer shall be voted for; and shall also provide for thet registration of all persons entitled to -vote. AMENDMENT NO. 4. ' Amends by striking the word * white” from Bections 4 and 5 of Article 4. AMENDMENT NO. §. . : Amends the Fourteenth clause of Section 22 of Article 4 to read as follows: ; In relation to fees or salaries, except the laws may be so made as to grade the componsation of officers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required. AMENDMENT NO. 6. Section 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Supreme Court, Circuit Courts and such other courts as the General Assembly may establish. : AMENDMENT NO. 9. . No political or municipal corporation in the State shall ever become indebted, in any manner or forany purpose, to an amount in the aggregate exceeding two per centum on the value of the taxable property within said corporation, to be ascertained by the last assess_ment for State and County taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, and all bonds and obligations in excess of such amount given by such corporations shall be void; providcd that in time of war, foreign invasion, or other great public calamity, on a 'fetition of a majority of the property owners, n number and value, within the limits of such corporation, the public authorities, in their discretion may incur obligations necessa.rg for the public protection and defense to suc amount as may be requested in such petition. These amendments are designated by numbers, and are numbered 1,2, 8, 4,5, 6 and 9, numbers 7 and 8 having failed to receive a majority of the votes of both branches of the last General Assembly. =/ . CaMPBELL LOVELESS, living near New Lisbon, stricken with palsy about two months ago, has complained bitterly ever since of his misfortune, saying he didn’t see why God Almighty didn’t cause both sides to be paralized and kill him, and be done with it. Twenty days ago he declared his intention of starving himself to death, and since that time he has retused to take any food or nourishment whatever. : ‘Miss - FLorA GATEs, daughter of Albert Gates, a farmer living about four miles southeast of Muncie, was recently fatally burned, her clothing catching fire while she was engaged in smoking meat in a smokehouse, near her father’s residence. A sister was also badly burned in attempting to.ex‘tinguish the flames. : ' SCARLET FEVER has been raging to an alarming extent in the town of Carpentersville and immediate vicinity, in Putnam “County. ' : THE Baker Bridge, near Crothersyille, on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, which has caused the death of eighteen persons, was burned the other afternoon.. ' GEORGE WILLIAMS, sevenky-six years old, for many years an inmate of the Marion County Asylum, cut his throat on the 27th ult with a small saw-blade. He was a confirmed invalid, suffering from asthma, and was tired of waiting on the slow process of nature for release. | ,

A FEW days ago Judge Ward, of Lafayette, granted a témporary restraining order pro. hibiting George W. Hiett from teaching school in building No. 4, in Jackson Township. Trouble arose between McCorkle, the Trustee, and Hiett, teacher, when the former suspended or discharged him. Hiett refused to be cashiered, and kept on teaching. Able lawyers were engaged on both sides. I?;ett set up the plea that the Trustee could\not discharge a teacher without it was done at the request or upon petition of the patronsof the school. Judge Ward afterward raised the injunction, and Hiett went back to his school. The Trustee’s attorney will amend his complaint, it is said, and try it again. The thing hias been brewing for months, and is likely to continue to for some time to come. A COAL-TRAIN going north a few nights ago on the La Salle, New Albany & Chicago Railroad parted about a mile from Crawfordsville. The engineer reversed his -engine and began backing up, when the two sections came together and collided with a terrible crash. Bix cars were badly wrecked, and the track torn up for a considerable distance. No lives were lost. ; AxDREW HanT, while hunting with some companions near Monmouth a few dayssince, suddenly fell dead from heart disease. He had been exercising very -hard, which is supposed to have brought it on. : - A wesT bound freight train on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad was wrecked three miles west of Muncie on the morning of the 25th ult. Half a dozen box-cars were ditched, but no one was seriously injured. Trains were delayed five hours. The accident is attributed to a rough road and too great speed. ; MaALiyDA HALEY, a Lafayette widow, committed suicide a few mornings ago by taking an overdose of laudanum. Dr. MARTIN UPDEGRAFF, of Shelbyville, was found dead in his bed the other morning. Cause, an overdose of hydrate of chloral dadministered by himself, : : Tur following are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.27%4@ 1.80%; Corn, 873/@3B}c; Oats, 84@363c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, $1.30 @1.30%¢; Corn, 41@42c; Oats, 36@37c; Rye, 85@854c; Barley, No. 8, 75@76c.

MRgs. SCHREIBER was assured by a San Francisco fortune-teller that great trouble would come to her in conseguence of speculation in stock, if she id not quickly get out of that sort of business. It happened that Mrs. Schreiber and her husband had just risked all their savin%s in a stock operation, and the words of the fortuneteller frightened and worried them so much that they committed suicide. -

MEN are the only order of creation, go it is said, that can laugh, and, it may be added, they are also the one that deserves to be laughed at. e

If He Should Get It. , Grant was first pominated with the overwhelming if not unanimous consent of his party. 1t was urged in his favor that for this reason his Administration would be free from the influence of politicians. Owing nothing to them he would be comparatively independent and become the President of the whole country. Some of his Cabinet appointments—notably those of Mr. A. ’lp Stewart and Mr. Borie—were a defiance of the political leadership of the party. %‘29, however, did not last long, and is second term ended with a most servile prostitution, not simply to partisan purposes, but to personal partisanship— to Conkling, to Cameron, to Chandler, and to the cliques they represented. ; | : After an interregnum of four years he is the candidate for the third term. An effort has been made to establish his claims on the specious and liberal ground of the distinguished American citizen for whom the Republican u{)art;y would be and its opponents should be proud to vote. There was to be nothing narrow or heating or petty in such a candidacy. He was to represent the pride, the generosity, the impulsiveness of an admiring party, and, to as large an extent as possible, a worshipful people. The very nature of the broad, free a(fprova.l of him would, it has been said, lift him above the bad influences which formerly surrounded him. In his absence from the camp he had, like those stricken with leprosy of old, been purified of the taints which clung to his old robes of office. He had been in quarantine, and obtained a clean bill of health from the crowned heads of Europe. Nominated almost wunanimous)l)y, spontaneously and with the hearty assent and consent of the whole party, he could afford to act independently of all politicians and all cliques. His inexperience forced him in the first instance to fall back upon their advice and aid. But nominated with fervor and without a contest, fortified by eight years of service, he could afford to take the office and discharge its duties in serene indifferéence to the pretended ‘‘claims’” of anybody who assumed to have been the instrument of his nomination. In other words, that large flock of claimants, each of whom in former days pushed himself forward ‘¢ as the man who discovered Grant,”’ would have to find sustenance in other barnyards and no longer challenge attention to their crowing in honor of the rising sun. At least it would be settled that the sun did not rise because they crowed.

The dream of those who sincerelyand disinterestedly held this view must have been rudely dispelled during the last few days. It is now seen that Grant’s squabble for the prize is to be just as vulgar, just as violent, Just as fierce, and just as greedy as anybody’s. He or his representatives will have to ‘figure” as close, and pull as many wires and lay as much pipe as the shrewdest and hardestheadeg politician in e%e party. Preeminent already in the®usiness are the veterans Cameron and Conkling, whose methods for carrying caucuses and conventions leave nothing for the exépentest in either party to learn. ® | Vanished is the hope ‘that Grant would represent any new and cleaner elements. ‘‘The old set” have their hands on ¢ the machine,”” and they are working it for Grant to,its fullest cagacity. They are. turnfng out Grant elegates as the nail machine turns out nails, with heads just alike and made out of the same piece. To them he will be indebted for his honors. Upon him and his patronage, provided the property can be deliverd, they are already clapping a . four years’ mortgage. The closer the contest, the %feater the indebtedness. The harder their work the more he will have to pay. The prestige of accepting the nomination as a free-will offering from the party is already, gone. The gloss of the shining casket in which, in imitation of foreign honors, he was to be presented the freedom of the party, is tarnished beyond regair. Cameron took it in his hands and left his fingermarks upon it. Conkling has already touched it and its shimmer is rubbed off, and it cannot be replated or regalvanized. He stands upon the same level with Blaine and Sherman. If nominated he will, like them, have friends to reward and enemies |to punish. All pretense of an unsought, unbought honor has disappeared. He must get ‘'down into the gust of the arena, and sweat and toil with the best or the worst of them. The Party cannot, if it would, tender him its vote on a silver salver and wish him many happy returns of the day. He or his friends must grab and grub for it, or they will lose it. They may lose it in any event, but if they gain it it is to be gained, badly stained, torn, soiled with the marks of the conflict; not, like the addresses of foreign corporations to him, embossed and engrossed on elegant parchment, and in stately, dignified text.—Detroit Free Press.

The National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. : L The Executive Commiitee of the Na- l tional Democratic Committee issued the following call on the 24th for a National Democratic Convention: ; The National Democratic Committee, havin¥ met in the City of Washington on the 234 o February, 1880, has agpointed Tuesday, June 22, next. at noon, as the time, and chosen the City of Cincinnati as the place, of holding the National Democratic Convention. Each State is entitled to representation therein e%ual to double the number of its Senators and Repregentatives in the Congress of the United States. All Democratic, Conservative and other citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political associations or differences, who can unite with us in an effort for pure, economical and Constitutional Government are cordially invited to join in sending ' delegates to the Convention. . ' At the last National Democratic Convention held in the City of St. Lous the following resolution was adopted: i Resolved That the States be requested to instruot their delegates to the National Democratic Convention to be held in 1880 whether it be desirable to continue the two-thirds rule lon!er in foree in the National Convention, and that the National Committee insert such request in the call for the next Convention, WiLLiaM H. BARNUM, Connecticut, s Chairman. FREDERICK O, PRINCE, Massachusetts, = ; Secretary. William H. Fomfiy, Alabamsa; Joha J. Sumter, Arkansas; F. McCoppin, California; B. M. Hugh%qi Colorado; Harberson Hickman, gelawa.re: ilkinson Cn.lé Florid Geoge | 7. Barnes, Georgia; W. C. Goudy, Illinois; ?usttn H. Brown, indiana; M. M. Ham, Towa;: saac E. Eaton, Kansas; H., D. ;.,Mc_ht:t‘:&y 3 Kentuckih B. F. Jones, Louisiana; Edmt d Wileon, Maine; Outerbridge Horsey. Mary-:

land; Edward Kanter, Mich Wiliam Lochren, Minnesota: lf.tlfil me. Miasissippi; John G. Priest, Missouri; George L. Miller, Nebragka; R. P. Keating, fiev.da; A. W. Sulloway, New Hampshire; Miles Rosg, New Jersey; Abraham 8. Hewftt, New York; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; John G. Thompson, Ohio; John Whiteaker, Oregon; William L. Scott, Pennsylvania; Nicholas Van Bévck Rhode Island; James H. Rion, South Carolina; William B. Bate, Tennessee: F. 8. smckdal%o'l‘em; B. B. dmnlley, Vermont; R. A, Coghill, Vlrenia; Alexander Campbell, West Virginia; Wiiliam F. Vilas, Wisoonsin. N : The Committee then voted to adjourn to meet at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, on Thursday, the 17th of June. A meeting of the Committee of Nine, ap})ointed by the National Committee, held a me__etmf on the 24th, and organized b{ the selection of John G. Thompson, of Ohio, as Chairman, and Frederick O. Prince, of Boston, Secretary. All the members were present. The folloyg&ng resolution was adopted: Resolved, That Colonel 1. A. Harris, General H. B. Banning, Benjamin Robinson, Oolonel C. W. Woouiy‘,_ John F. Follett, Alexander ‘Long and P.E. Roach be, and are heret y, constituted the Resident Committee of the City of Cincinnati, under the National Executive Committee, and are authorized to make all needful local provisions, and such necessary arrangements as shall be requi: ed for the convenience of the Convention to be held in that city oh the 22d of June, 1880. - i .~ The Committee then adjourned to meet at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, on Thursday, June 17 next. : % -——-—-—‘o—’-——l- ; The Grant Programme, We published yesterday the s'(éggestive remarks of ex-Governor Smith, of New ‘Hamfpshire, in regard.to the necessity of Grant's nomination. Those whothink that gentleman * out of line,” and not in harmony with the present dominant sentiment of his party, ma¥l change their opinion after rea,dinfi the followin%, from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a leading organ of the ‘‘stalwarts’: L “We know, and the people know, that if Geéneral Grant is chosen he will take the office, and all thought of conspiracy will melt away under the influence of a man whose simple word would call to his side. a half-mill-ion of veteran soldiers. * * * ““The Republican party needs something more than brilliancy, something more than personal magnetism, something more than financial ability, something more than simple availability, in the contest that is approaching. In case of trouble experience-shows that the talkers generally retire to thé rear, while men of action come to the front. ‘The Deacon Smiths and the George William Curtises are beautiful to look upon in the bright sunshine, but when the clouds lower, dustier garments and less bewitching forms must ag—ear. What we need now is bravery, strength, grmness and honesty in a candidate; the daintier traits will -answer for fairer periods and less stormy skies.” ; Y

‘Putting] party considerations aside - entirely, let us look at this matter from the standpoint of patriotism and com-mon-sense. . The country is at peace; such peace as it has not enjoyed for twenty years. The:country is prosperous; such prosperity as it has not en--joyed for twenty years. , No foreign or domestic foe threatens tilat peace. No industrial, commercial ¢r financial disturbance threatens that prosperity. The National machine is working smoothly and satisfactorily, and there is no reason to ,suppose that, if let alone, it will get out of order. Yetan accredited representative of the most powerful wing of a powerful party del,iberaf.el% urges the nomination of a certain resi%ential candidate because hig ¢ simfile word would call to his side a half-million of veteran soldiers,”’ w}ge-) would help him—as we are told in italics—to ““‘take the office.”” Did any man fairly elected to the Presidency. have any difficulty in obtaining it, until Republican trickery thrust out Tilden to make room for Hayes? Was it ever before considered a recommenda- - tion for a Presidential candidate that he had & half-million soldiers at his dis- ° posal to seftle a disputed title? Were. the American people ever before told with italicised emphasis that the man who sought their votes for the Chief Magistracy would ‘‘lake the office?’ - Has the United States already sunk to the level of Mexico, that bayonets are to supplement ballots?- Is the greatest Republic in the world no better than the meanest, that military force is to override all forms of law and crush public liberty into the dust? -~ , . The Grant gang be%'in their *'bull--dozing”’ tactics early, for which honest citizens will be duly grateful. All this talk about ‘¢ conspiracy,” ‘‘lowering clouds,” and- ‘stormy skies,”” when there is- no conspiracy, no clouds, no storm, lis intendeg to frighten the antiGrant Republicans into the third-term traces. ' But it will serve a more important purpose. It will open the eyes of every patriot, of whatever politics, to the desperate and utterly unsernpulous character of the men who are engin‘eerin% the Grant movement. It will show the infamous character of the influences upon whi¢h the success of that movement depends. It is a solemn warning, which none but knaves or fools will despise. - As for Democrats, the know now, if they did not before, what is in store for them: in case Grant is nominated. They know now, if they did not before, that should the contest be at all close and their candidate. elected by a small majority, as in 1876, Grant will ¢ take the office’-and keep it by the aid of * a half-million of veteran soldiers.”” 'lf this infermation, boldly and defiantly proclaimed, does not bring unity to Democratie ranks and wisdom ¢ into Democratic councils, then nothing can.—Bt. Louts Republican.

TALLEYRAND'S memoirs will not be printed before next. July, the MS. being in the hands of one M. Audral, who absolutely declines to break the seal until the arrival of the time set by their author. Publishers are said to be greatly excited over the nfemoirs, and M. Audral tells an amusing tale of one who, after ofi'erin% him. in vain an enormous sum for, them, said at length, in the most oily and persuasive manner: ¢ Sir, take the money. Alll ask is to have the MS. in' my hand for two days, and it shall then be returned to you. 1 will publish a mangled and distorted copy; you will bring an action against me for damages, and will certainly win. Surely you can have no objection to such a proposition; for all the profit will be on gour side.” * And he was astonished when his offer was refused. e e e . —The other dai in Washington a marriage license which had been granted February 5 was returned to the clerk of the court, and with it an explanatory note from the *‘young man,” sta.tmg that the license had- been chased a little too .earlg, as the girl 'hlatl' refused to get married, and he would like to have his money refunded. =