Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 April 1880 — Page 2

@lhe Ligonier Baner., J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proinmér.‘ LIGONIER, .: : : INDIANA.

NEWS SUMMARY. y L T Jraportant Intelligence from All Parts A - Congressional. THE Genéva Award bill was further debated in the Senate on the 24th....The entire session of the House, which lasted until _ midnight, was devoted to a discussion relative to the disfosition to be made of Mr. Townshend’s bill reducing the duties on certain articles, thgdpeuding resolution being one, offered by Mr. McLane, declaring that in the opinion of the House the reference of the bill to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws was incorrect under the rules, and that ~'such committee should be discharged from its further consideration, and the bill be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. By. filibustering proceedings the opponents of the resolution succeeded in preventing a decisive vote being takeén thereon under a motion for the previous question. - MR. CaMERON (Pa.) introduced a joint resolution in the Senate on the 25th providing for a commission to consider and report what legislation is needed for the better _regulation of ¢ommerce among the States, the commission {to consist of three Senators, three Representatives and three citizens to be appointed by the President, who shall sit during the recess, and inquire into the conditions that will most favorably affect transporation of commerce among the States, carried by land and water routes, securing thereby to the: people the required facilities at the lowest rates, the greatest certainty and economy in time, and that will prevent unjust discrimination, and to report their recommendations to the next Congress. The bill incorporating the National Educational Association and the bill to ;l)rovide for issuing patents for dpublic lands claimed under the Pre-emption and Homestead laws were passed. Adjourned to the 29th.... After a lengthy controversy in the House over the McLane resolutionrelative to the reference of Mr. Townshend’s bill reducing the duties on oertain articles the journals of the 224, 23d ‘and 24th were approved, and the resolution discharging the Committee on the Revigion of the Laws from the further consideration of Mr. Townshend’s bill was agreed t 0—142 to 100 - —and the bill was then referred to the Ways and Means Committee—l 42 to YB—thirty-four Democrats and Greenbackers voting with the majority. - . - : . . THE Senate was not in session on the 26th....1n the House the morning hour was consumed in the consideration of private bills, and a long debate took place upon the question ~ whether a two-thirds vote was requisite under the rules to lay aside private business and proceed to the consideration of i.public bills. Without deciding the point, the House went - into Conimittee of the Whole on the private calendar. e L THE Senate was not in session on the 2tth....Resolutions were - adopted in. the House: Calling on the Secretary of the Interi- - or forinformation as to any frauds or corrupt practices on the part of any employes of the Indianservice since the-Ist of -July, 1877, and also for a copy of the testithony iaken by Generals Hatch and Adams touching the Ute outbreak; calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a detailed 'statement of the amount of bonds purchased by the. Treasury between the Ist, of January, 1844, and the Ist of January, 1859, setting forth the date and amount of each purchase, the rate of interest borne by the bonds then purchased, with the date of maturity thereof, and the total premium, exclusive of :matured interest, Xaid on each purchase and -its rate per cent. number of bills were received and referred. - The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was debated in (fimm‘ittee of the Whole, Messrs. Blackburn and Townshenad (Ill.) strongly advocating the abolition of the whole diplomatic service, and Mesgrs. Robeson, Orth and Monroe earnestly defending ¢Buch service. S :

: - Domestic, - A WaAsHINGTON dispatch of the 24th states that the Interior Department had been informed that large numbers of Sitting Bull’s band had applied at Fort Peck for rations, offering to surrender their arms and ponies. These surrenders, Seeretary Schurz stated, would. have to be made to the military posts. The Secretary said he had every reason .to believe that the balgnce of the Ute ..Indians engaged in the Meeker ‘massacre would be brought in without delay. One of the Indians captured by Jack, and then in Washington, had been identified by Mrs. Meeker as having acted in a friendly manner toward the ladies during captivity. Ouray and the other Ute chiefs who had been in Washington for several weeks left for Colorado on the evening of the 24th. ‘ L THE first coal charter of the season was made at Buffalo, on the 24th, at seventyfive cents per ton to Chicago. - : HeAvY snow-storms were prevalent throughout the Eastern States on the night of the 24ths o - THE family of Edward Westlake, six persons, i Brooklyn, -N. Y., have been poisoned by an infusion of jimson weed, drank by mistake for tea. : All had rec})v'ered except one on the 24th. ! ; o ‘Dr. CABLE, a prominent Pittsburgh (Pa.) physician, fatally poisoned his ten-year-old son on the 24th, by administering a teaspoonful of morphine by mistake for’some croup remedy. iy : s At Winfield, Kan., a few days ago a barn and a smaller building were carried away by a cyclone, and neither had.been found, not-even a fragment, after ten hours’ search, A : : . Ix the case of the City of Chicago against the sureties of David A. Gage, lately defaulting City Treasurer, the Illinois Supreme Court has decided that the fact that the bondsmen signed in blank, or with certain blanks to be filled, did not invalidate the bond. The Court held that the sureties signed the paper knowing it to be a bond, and that the contingent circumstances were such that they must have known that Gage was to act as Treasurer. They made themselves responsible for the faithful performance of his duties as such official, and in reality each one constituted Gage bhis agent to complete the bond. . e A NEw YORK telegram of the 25th states that Edison had said he had ascertained the cause of the cracking of some ot the globes containing the incandescent® carbons, and had found means of removing the

cause of the fracture. This, he said, would obviate, the necessity of annealing the globes, | and keep their c¢ost at twenty-five cents apléce. ‘, : A BPECIAL to the Denver Tribune, dated March 23, says Indians had attacked a party of six men near Santa Barbara, N. M., ~ killing them all - , . - THE Supreme Court of the State of Illinois has recently decided that the usual Jpractice by building associations of loaning money at more than legal rates of interest is usuriouss - ' e On the 26th the Secretary of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee published a card ‘denying that negotiations were going on or that. communications were being had between that organization and the Band Lotters. L o A ~ Tae United States ship Constella- . tion sailed from New York for Ireland on the * 2th, loaded with donations of supplies: for the suffering people of that country. The cargo consisted of over 8,000 barrels of provisions, including alarge quantity of potatoes,

and m'q,ny boxes-of clothing, and was made up by contributions from every part of the country. : - : - ~_ACCORDING to the St. Louis directory,. recently published, the population of that city nu:pbers 540,000 persons. THE 'ex-Comptroller and ex-Treasur-rof Elizabeth, N. J., lately convicted of deirauding the city, have been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and $2,250 fine, and to four years’ imprisonment and $9OO fine, respectively. ' - TiLLIE WOLF, a twelve-year-old girl atte\ndixiga Cincinnati public school, in attempting to inflate a toy balloon a few days ago, swallowed it; and died from the effects thereof, ten minutes afterward.

Personal and Political. _ Tae Minnesota State Democratic Convention to choose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention has been called to meet in St Paul on the 20th of May. \ ; ‘ GENTLEMAN Jo,”’ the persecutor of Rev. Dr. Dix, of New York, was discovered and arrested in Baltimore on the 24th. He confessed his guilt. His name is Eugene Fairfax' Williamson; his age, forty,” and his place of residence, Pittsburgh. He said he did not know what prompted him to send the letters, postal-cards, etc., as his victim never injured him in any manner. : ON the z4th the President nominated A. Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; James B. Angell, President of the Michigan University, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to China, vicé George F. Seward, recalled; and John F. Swift, of California, and Wm. H. Trescott, -of South Carolina, to be Commissioners to China to negotiate a treaty. THE New York State Convention of the National Greenback-Labor party was held at Albany on the 24th. Patrick E. Ford, George O. Jones, James E. Wright and Samuel Lovell were chosen as delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention. The resolutions adopted were substantially those adopted by the Pennsylvania Convention. JUDGE MORAN, of the Cook ‘County (Il.). Circuit Court, rendered a decision on the 24th, holding that persons not freeholders are debarred from serving on juries in Illinois. -He said that the common law provides that a freehold qualification is netessary for jurors, and as there is no provision of any State law repesaling this principle, but, on the contrary, the statute requires that ‘‘a juror shall be free from -all legal exception,” the Judge held that non-freeholders were not competent to serve: i A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Anti-Third-Term-Committee of the National Republicans of Bt. Louis met in -that city on the evening of the 25th and issued a call for a National Mass Convention to meet in that city on the 6th of May for the purpose of ‘‘giving expression to the will of the American people against the principle of a third term, inaugurating a movement with a view to fixing a limit toExecutive tenure by Constitutional amendment, 'and taking such other action as the delegates may deem expedient.” - REvV. DR. Dlx bad an interview with “ Gentleman Jo”’ Williamson on the 25th, in the course of which the latter manifested great contrition and protested his innocence of an intention to levy blackmail.. Mr. Gayler, of the post-office, believed the culprit, was “guided in his work by some insane impulse.” Dr. Dix thought he should be brought to punishment for the sake of example. o I ' -

THE Texas Republican State Convention was held at Austin on the 25th, and elected delegates to the National Convention, a majority of whom are said to favor: the nomination of General Grant.. The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit in the convention. , At Richmond, Va., onthe 26th, Judge G. L. Christian, of the Hustings Court, order ed the summoning of two colored men on the venire for the next term of his court. This will be the first time colored people ever had representation on the juries of any courts in that State, outside the Federal Courts. : Court DE LEeSsseprs, the eminent French engineer, arrived in Chicago from San Francisco on the 26th. He was banqueted in the evening by the Civil Engineers’ Club of the Northwest. GENERAL GRANT visited San Antonio, Tex:, on the 26th, where he received an enthusiastic reception. v A. C. CorpiN, brother-in-law of General Grant, died in Jersey City, N. J., on the 28th. ‘THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has refused to recommend the pardon of Kemble and his associates in the Legislative bribery case. . ' - JoBN MCAF¥FEE, who, as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1861, cast the deciding vote which prevented the State from going out of the Union, died on the 27th, at Quiney, 111., where he had resided since 1867. ‘ In a speech at the Sand Lots in San Francisco on the 28th, Denis Kearney declared that the agitation would not cease until the Chinese were driven from the State. ‘The speech is said to have been a comparatively mild one as| regards pointed personalities and profanity. At a large meeting held in the evening Mayor Kalloch expressed the desire that the Sand-Lotters should cease their profane and threatening speeches, and added that the people were tired of Kearney and his agitation. ; ‘O~ the 28th a Dorchester (Mass.) church "celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its organization in Plymouth, England. - TeHE Rhode Island Senate has rejected the proposed amendment to the Constitution giving school suffrage to women, by a vote of 13t020.

Foreign, ’ THE business portion of the City of Samana, San Domingo, has been recently destroyed by fire. At the height of. the conflagration a party of pillagers quarreled over their booty, and several of them were killed. The loss is placed at $1,500,000. - THE Queen prorogued the British Parliament on the 24th, and announced the _issue of writs for a general election. In the gpeech, which was read by the Lord High Chancellor, .she says her foreign relations .are favorable to the maintenance of peace in ' Europe,and she expresses confidence in the speédy settlement of affairs in Afghanistan. Referring to the measures for the relief of the distress in Ireland, shesays she hopes ' they will be accepted by her Irish subjects as proof of the ready sympathy of Pariament, A St. PETERSBURG special of the 25th says the Czar had, on the night previous, shot and mortally wounded his confidential serv.ant, who entered his bed room during the night, thinking the Czar had called him. | Tug ex-Empress Eugenie embarked at Southampton for South Africa on the 25th. Bhe goes to visit the locality where the Prince Jmperial was killed. = . i PR B I AT 3 2 % e

A MoNTREAL (Canada) dispateh of | the 25th says French Canadians were leaving that city at the rate of sixty or seventy a day, their destination being Michigan or Colorado, while a few were destined for California. A large number of mechanics, chiefly carpenters, were being engaged to go to Colorado and other places to prepare lumber, ete. for new railways. - ‘ : A LonpoN dispatch of the 26th says Prince Leopold, the youngest sen of Queen Victoria, would sail for Canada on the 29th of Asril. He would afterward make a tour of the Western States and cities. A MUTINY of minersat a place called Anguero, in Mexico, recently resulted in the killing of two Americans and one Canadian. "A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 26th says defalcations had been discovered in the overland custom-house in thgt city, .amounting to $525,000. i A LoNDON telegram of the 26th says China had decided to risk war with Russia rather than accept the result of the recent negotiations. , ° QUEEN VicTorlA has knighted and conferred the Order of the Bath upon Theodore Martin, the author of the biography of Albert, the Prince Consort. 1 A Lonpox dispatch of the 28th says'}{ that, when Mr. Parnell undertook to speak at | Enniscorthy, Ireland, a few days before, he | was greeted with a shower of odorous eggs, ‘ and was compelled to abandon the platform. It was reported on the 28th that the presence of two United States war vessels, engaged in soundings and surveys at the Isthmus, of Panama, was causing. considerable excitement and ill-feeling in Colombia. These operations having been econducted without reference to the authoritieson shore, the native Seeretary of State had addressed a letter to the American Consul, asking an -explanation. That official was in ignorance, however, and referred the matter to the Government at Washington. .

QUEEN VicToriA and Sthe Princess Beatrice arrived at Baden-Baden on the 27th. ‘A LoNDON telegram of the 27th announces the mobbing of a conservative candidate for Parliament. A Maprip dispatch of the 27th says fourteen persons had been seriously, some ‘atally, wounded on the day before by the fall of a balcony at Cadiz. SiciLIAN bandits have captured a German Duke and made him pay a heavy ransom for his release. A BriTisH outpost near Gundamak was attacked by Afghans on ,he 27th: The British had thirteen men killed. ‘ - WiLLiam SHAw, home-ruler, speaking at Cork on the 23th, predicted that if Ire--land was denied justice by the new Parliament the Irish members of the House of Commons would withdraw. . ‘ 4 i THE announcement is made that the King of Siam will leave his capital early in April for avisit to Europe and the United States. : . A VIiENNA telegram of the 28th says the people in Northern Hungary were selling their property at ruinously low figures, and emigrating by thousands. A RUSSIAN newspaper urges the open publication of Nihilistic ideas, claiming that when freely discussed they will appear in their true light. - - ; A LATE Vienna telegram says Austria was seeking an alliance with Roumania. ~ Russia is establishing Consulates {p India. et ' 'UNDER the new arr angements for the protection of the Winter Palace, in St. Petersburg, five officers of the Imperial guard have been appointed for each floor, with instructions to hand over to the police all strangers entering the building ' whose business is unknown. W A IATE Berlin telegram says that Prince Bismarck had, under medical advice, abandoned beer-drinking, hoping thereby to stop the excessive and dangerous corpulency tg which he is subject.

: LATER NEWS, DECREES against unauthorized religious societies in France were published on the morging of the 30th. The one relating to the Jesuits dissolves the association and directs that the establishments occupied by its members be vacated within three months. THE annual review of the volunteer regiments of the British military service took place at Brighton on the aftercoon of the 29th. It was a brilliant affair. - . IN the United States Senate on the 29th the Deficiency Appropriation bill, containing the appropriation of $607,600 for United States Marshals and deputies, was reported from committee and placed on the calendar. The Geneva Award bill was debated. A number of blls were introduced in the House, among which were: Prescribing and defining the manner of guaranteeing to each State a republican form of Government; reaffirming and applying the Monroe doctrine; providing that hereafter all gold and silver coins.of the United States shall be interchargeable at their lawful value on the demand of holders thereof; to organize the Territory of Alaska. o LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAN and his traveling companions, who were with General Grant in Cuba and Mexico, reached Chicago on the 20th. ~ : , . THE New York Democratic Convention to select delegates to the Cincinnati Convention will meet at Albany, April 20. It was considered. probablé on the 29th that the Tammany Convention would be held the same day apd at the same place. : - DuriNGg the discussion of the Geneva Award bill in the United States Senate on the 29th Senator Thurman; who was addressing the Senate, suddenly sank into his chair and seemed for a moment to be unconscious. The prompt application of ice-water restored him, and be was conveyed to a cloak-room, where a physician decided that he was suffering from a rush of blood to the head. The incident caused a profound sensation in the Benate chamber and throughout the city. ‘At a late hour in the evening Mr. Thurman was resting easily. = . . : Suha ' THE sentence of dismissal from the United States' Army of Major Marcus A. Reno, 'of the S:l:enth Cavalry, was promulgated from department headquarters at Bt. Paul on the 29th. - The sentence was to take effect April 1. Lo o o . It was denied at Washington on the 20th that American vessels of war were at the Isthmus of Panama engaged in surveys and other operations distasteful to the Colombianauthorities. : : Lo ~ ToE convicted Pennsylvania bribers, who were to have been sentenced at Harrisburg on the 29th, failed to appear in court, a 8 they had promised. Their bail was forfeited, and warrants were immediately issued for their arrest. They had provably fled and got beyond the jurisdiction of the court.

7 i P INDIANA STATE NEWS. JorN KiNgowN and a colored man known a 8 Black Bill engaged in a fight in the Arcade saloon in Anderson on the night of the 18th. Kingown was badly cat about the face, arms and groin, and will probably die. * IT turns out that a recent grand jury in Shelby County which after a session of a week or two returned twenty-one indictments was not a legally organized body. One of the members was not a freeholder, as is required by the State law, and his disability, it is stated, invalidates the action of the whole body. ‘THE invitation of the Indianapolis. Board of Trade to the National Butter and Cheese Association to hold its session in that eity has been accepted, and it will convene April 28 for a three days’ session. TAYLOR DEMARCUS was instantly killed at Blander’s stone quarry, three miles east of Spencer, on the morning of the 18th, by a derrick falling upon him. He was foreman of the quarry. . : ; A FEW evenings ago at Lafayette two policemen arrested what appeared to be a very much intoxicated man and took him to the jail. He was in such a condition as to be unable to tell his name. Before long, however, it was made evident that the man, whose name was Simmons, was in a dying condition from the effects of sume poisonous drug. He lingered for thirty-six hours and died.

F. R. A. Jetter’s residence, two miles west of Brookville, was burned to the ground on the afternoon of the 23d. Loss $4,000. Cause, defective flue. . ~ Ox the night of the 21st the large flouring: and grist mill of John Long, at Clifty Creek, one mile south of Hartsville, was set on fire by an incendiary and totally destroyed. Loss $5,000. TaE saw-mill of Lyman Lackey, two miles. south of Darlington, burned on the evening of the 224, involving a loss of $3,000. : ~ ATt Moreystown, in Shelby County, on the 23d, Willie Green shot and instantly killed a little child of Mrs. McConnell. He was playing with a revolver which he found lying on a_ table, when it exploded, the ball' passing through. the child’s head. . ; JOHN ANDERSON, of Indianapolis, lately discharged from the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad, committed suicide on the 22d by shooting himself through the heart. Domestic troubles together with lack of employment are, said to have been the causes of the deed. - PETER LENNON’s farm-house, eight miles southeast of Muncie, was ransacked on the 21st, by burglars, during the absence of the family. A trunk was carried into the woods, broken open with a fence-rail, and $lOO in cash and several thousand in notes extracted therefrom. A reward of $5OO is offered for the valuables and the apprehension of the thieves. / | WILLIAM GREENING, a Polander at Otis, attempted to murder his wife on the 22d. First throwing her babe across the room, he fastened a rope around the woman’s neck and hung her. Neighbors, hearing the noise, broke into the house, seized and tied the wretch, and cut down the woman, resucitating her with diffieulty. The motive was unalloyed cussedness. THE thirty-first annual report of the Insane Hospital for the year ending October 31, 1879, was filed withhthe Governor on the 25th. The inventory of property foots up $1,391,462.96, of which $88,451.96 is personal property. The receipts for the year were from all sources $195,559.81, and the expenditures §161,653.28. Of the balance $3,455.55 was covered into the State Treasury. The disbursements for permanent improvements and repairs were $20,011.03. During the year 615 patients were admitted, 532 discharged, 69 died and 629 remain. The daily average number was 625. The cost of maintenance per capita was $191.31. Twelve hundred and twenty-nine patients were treated, and 23.03 per cent. recovered; 5.06 per cent. died. A census of the State’s insane shows that there are about 2,200 of this unfortunate class, 1,500 in jails, county asylums and private domiciles. The Trustees are satisfied that the care of patients has been in strict accordance with the highest principles of humanity. The average monthly expenditure for the year ending Oc tober 31, 1878, was $l2, 030.82; for 1879, under the new management, &8,211.88. - :

ON the night of the 25th t#e dwelling of Thomas Reese, living about three miles east of Pine Village, was entirely consumed by fire. . It-originated from a defective flue while the fanfily were asleep. ' They had barely time to escafie from the burning building in their night clothes—everything was lost. The damage was $3,000. ' JOHN CONNER, night watchman at the Atlas machine-works, at Indianapolis, came home on the morning of the 26th and dropped dead of neuralgia of the heart. , ALFRED DUuNnmaM, of Madison County, pardoned last December by Governor Williams on condition of keeping sober, became intoxicated on the 25th, and was returned to the Penitentiary. ' v Ox the 25th at Logansport a daughter of Nathan Kirneman was suffering from what appeared’ to be a well-defined case of hydrophobia. The girl, who is ten years old, was bitten by a dog six months ago, but the wound healed until a few days since when it broke out afresh. ; THE house of Philip Allis, five miles north of North Manchester, was burned a few nights ago. Loss, $2,000. Cause, defective flue. ON the 25th Governor: Williams received a letter from Orange County, appealing to him to break up a band of villians who are traveling through the county, and nightly.whipping worthy citizens without any. known cause. The nature of the organization or the purposes far which it does its work are not known. The letter further says that the thing has gone on until a man cannot tell when or where he is safe. The State officials it is said will take no action in the matter, as such duties devolve solely upon the local authorities. " . Ep JomxsonN and Matt Miller, two farm hands living four miles from Seymour, got into a fight the other day, during which Miller shot and fatally wounded Johnson. . Tuge following are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2, Red, [email protected]{; Corn, 36}¢@37c; Oats, 32@33c. The Cineinnati quotations are: Wheat, [email protected]; Corn,4(!)@4o%c; Oats, 37@38c; Rye, 83@838%c; Barley, No. 8 Fall, 80@80£e: o

THE hottest water yet encountered on the Comstock is in the Belcher, on the three-thousand-foot level. It is with difficulty that 'its exact tem%era,ture can be taken, as the hole is horizontal. By holding the bulb of the thermometer under the drippings from the hole the mercury rises to 162. Could the exact temperature of the water be obtained by fastening a bulb in the hole it would doubtless add a few . degrees to the above. On the mountain water boils at 198. . S ; . WaHY does an aching tooth impose silence on the sufférer? Because it makes him hold his jaw, .

POLITICAL POINTS. ——¢RBvery year shows clearer the strong points of Grant’s Administration,”’ cries the Burlington Hawkeye. True! True! Some new rascality is discovered every few days.—Boston Post. : - - ——Ex-United States Senator Ross, of Kansas, one of the Republican Senators who voted against the conviction of President Andrew Johnson on articles of impeachment, has purchased the Leavenworth (Kan.) Press and will make it a Democratic organ. : ——Mr. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is evidently determined that, so long as he has a seat upon that august, or what should be august, tribunal, the true, just, and Constitutional rights of the State shall never want a champion or defender.— Atlanta (Ga.) Chronicle. - ——*¢lt is considered a serious question here,”” says the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, “whether the Republicans can elect the next President without Ohio. The German citizens of that State have saved the scalp of the Republican party two or three times. but it is thought they will not do it again, if Grant is nominated.” : ' ——The spectacle of the General-in-Chief of the Army acting as a lobbyist to work injury to as brave and good a soldier as himself is about as edifying as that presented by the Administration when it went to New York to help the canal thieves and -Cornell win an election. These Republicans have a fine notion of dignity and decent behavior. — poston Post. , .

- ——Slight is the respect of any American who can desire to see the example set by George Washington in declining a third Presidential term overturne and set at naught. The man who aspires to such an elevation must at heart be unpatriotic and dangerously ambitious. Trust him not. Keep to the traditions and venerate the examples and virtues of the early and pure Presidents.— Louisville Demdcrat. : ——The Springfield Republican thinks that the Republicans are more certain to have a good candidate for VicePresident than for President. We do not doubt it. The duties of that exalted office, as interpreted by the gentleman who now occupies it, are to go fishing and draw the salary that attaches to it with great regularity. There are thousands in the Republican party who can fill that bill.—Exzchange. —— If the Inter-Ocean would just come down to Springfield, spend fortyeight hours, and listen to the tremulous whispers of the late Grant boomers, it would then see how badly ¢‘the Democrats have frightened the Grant men.” The Grant men don't talk above a whisper now, in this region. They wish they had never heard of the ‘““boom.”” They feel that John Logan has misled them. The ¢‘particulars’ are too nufherous to mention.—lllinois Register. -, ——Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvafia, who is Grant’s chief groomer for hicago, claims to have a military contingent ready at a moment’s notice to march on Washington and inspect the Electoral count. “He wants a Government at least a hundred thousand strong to start with; but how is it that leading Radicals can indulge in bulldozing threats of this character with utter impunity, when similar talk, spoken even in jest’by a Democrat, is magnified into the germ of a revolutionary conspiracy.—S¢. Louis Republican. . i

General Logan’s Swagger. . We are not sure that it will be gener- | ally considered worth the while to investigate the motives and ambition of a man like General Logan by the light of his methods; but as he occupies so honorable an office, arrogates so constantly the right to participate in public questions, whether he knows anything about them or not, and strives so zealously to keep himself in the focus of the public gaze, it may not be out of place to turn aside and examine him a little more. closely than is customary just as we would any other phenomenon in nature. There is more justification for this step now than usual, in the fact that he has taken the time of Congress and the country for several days, and in the course of his fulminations has furnished a key by which the least observing can read his character. - During one of his recent venomous assaults upon General Porter, according to an admiring correspondent, ‘¢ tossing back his long black hair, his eyes gciittering with fire, and his sonorous voice echoin% through the Senate, he said: ¢Mr. President, had I been John Pope and sent such an order to a subordinate, to have it disobeyed, there would not have been any Fitz John Porter knocking at the door of Congress to-day.” "’ fiere is swagger, bluster, fuss and fur¥ with a vengeance. “‘Me heap big Injun’ js the sentiment which underlies the waunt of this modern Pistol. We are reminded of those days of larger license in society and of the pot-house valiants who used to frown forbiddingly, clank their | sabers and frighten ’%ar-maids half out ‘of their wits W%en it did not please them better to flirt with the wayside Hebes. Probably there is not in all this broad | land to be found such another ferocious anachronism as General Logan. -~ Pitt once said: ‘“ Were I an American as I am an Englishman, I would never lay down my arms, never, never, ne‘ve'r.”r That was brave talk and a statesmanlike utterance, because it was not intended to magnify himself, but to show | that he considered the cause of the Colonists the cause of freedom, and he was not afraid to say so, though the | sentiment was very unpopular. | Per- | haps Logan thought he was imitating | Pitt or some other great man, butthere is quite a difference between the emphatic expression of honest indignation and the utterance of empty post facto | boasts. We wish, however, that, this distinguished Senatorial bully had gone | a little more into. detail. In the first place his conclusion is as inconsequential as is generally the case with his ;gpe_eches.% ~He says: *“ Hadl been John ;)&)e, and sent such an order to a sub- | ordinate, to have it disobeyed, there | would not have been any Fitz John Por tor knooking at tho door of Congress |

ordgate, name not specified, had disobeyed him? This may seem like wordsplitting, but still it shows that General Logan uses language very loosely for a man who has been discussing as nice distinctions as the law and constitutionality of the Porter case in its relations to Congress involves. Of course we know what he intended to express, and that evident intention convigts him of being the veriest egotist who has made an exhibition of himself before the public for a long time. A violation of gecd taste is not always as readily forgiven as a positive injustice, and by his gross offense in this respect, he has forcibly }l)}e:;ded General Porter’s cause.—Boston OSt. .

- More Centralization. = It was a true word that Senator Carpenter spoke in the Fitz John Porter case when he said: ‘A careful observer of the tendencies of our time cannot fail to see that in every branch of our Government we are running to‘wards consolidation and centralization of power.” Ofits truth no better illustration could possibly be given than the decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the election cases, so called. By its first decision the Court seemed to strain the doctrine of Federal control over the machinery of State Government to the utmost; but the decisions of Monday show that the extreme point was not reached in the cases first referred to if indeed. it has yet been reached. In the Tennesee case it was held, in substance, that an officer of the Federal Government may, inthe real or pretended discharge of his official duty, break any law of the State without: incurring any responsibility.to the State. If he hasa warrant for the arrest of any person he may rob the latter without incurring any - liability under the State law against larceny, er Kkill him without being subjected to the risk of indictment for homicide. - He has simply to appeal to the Federal Courts for protection; and if heis tried at all it must be before those tribunals. What such a trial means the people of Michigan learned some years since, by actual experience. A Deputy Marshal of the United States, while in the discharge of his duty, shot a citizen of Michigan who subsequently died from the effects of his wound. :The United States Court assumed jurisdiction of the case, notupon the ground taken by the Supreme Court in the Tennessee case, but upon the assumption that the shooting took place within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States. The officer was tried and foundyguilty of manslaughter; but his punisfim’ent was a farce. He was fined less than a disturber of the peace would have been in the Police Court—one dollar was the exact sum, if we re‘member rightly-—and sentenced to twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. He was subsequently tried and punished under the State law, with more regard for the gravity of the case; but if the doctrine of the Tennessee case had been in force at-the time, he would have escaped with the ridiculous pretense of punishment referred to. ‘ But while the doctrine of the Fennessee case carries such consequences, the doctrine of the decisipn in the election cases carries consequences infinitely more dangerous, not only to our system of Government, but to the personal liberty which should be the first province of any system of Government to protect. Under = the doctrine first named, a Federal official, charged with the infraction -of a State law, can be tried by the Federal Courts; but his trial and conviction, and punishment, if he received any, would be a bar to his. trial by the State tribunals. Under the decision of the . election cases, trial and conviction by the Federal Court would be no bar to trial in the State Courts. The act of Congress makes it an offense for an election officer to neglect or violate any dutg enjoined by the State law. For such neglect or violation he may, therefore, be punished both under the act of Congress and under the Staté law. He WOH%d find-no~ pmte(%ion in the provision which, in the Federal Constitution and in the Constitution of most, if not all, of the -States,t%ohibits two trials for the same offenséy For while the act of n?{glecting or violating a duty imposed by a State law would be the same, whether inquired into by a Federal or a State court, the offense would, in the one case, be ‘against an act of Congress and - punishable thereunder, while in- the other it would be against the State law imposing the duty and punishable in actordance with the laws of the State. The injustice of a doctrine. which works such consequences needs no comment. . : There has been no little confusion of ideas in respect to the question involved in this latest decision of the Supreme Court, owing to the erroneous classification of it with the questions of constitutional construction involved in the ‘Tennessee case and the other cases decided at the same time. In a general way the questions have a certain similarity; but there is this important difference between them: '}%heg entire effect of the Supreme Court decision in the election cases can be _done away with by act of Congress; while, the doctrine laid down in the Qti‘gnr cases eannot be wholly abrogated without ‘Constitutional amep&ifiéj‘ni . The ma~ jority in Congress saw this very clearly at the extra session; and whatever may be said of the methods resorted to in attempting to secure the repeal of the ‘Election laws, the purpose in view was Jaudable and right. ';';.’l‘he’«deeisibn of ‘the Supreme Court shows the necessity for another effort; and it rests with the greo;ple, to say at the coming election in November whether the effort shall be Sucééssftormot. .- o - . &

The centralization which is responsible for this latest encroachment upon local government is Congressional centralization.. It has™ the a,dvanta%e over Executive and judicial centralization that it finds partial warrant in the Constitution. That instrument gives to Congress the power to make regulations as to the time, place and manner of holding Congressional elections; but it rests entirely with Congress to say whether it is expedient - to. exercise the power. In the light of the construction which the Supreme Court has put upon the exercise attempted under £e~ publican rule, no Congress which fairly r{a;fresents the people, can well hel) d%— 1 ciding that the exercise is inexpedient —Detroit Free Press. .