Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 April 1880 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner, ¥B, STOLL, Editor and Pronm(;fi : LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

- NEWS SUMMARY. Irnportant Inteligence from All Parts e R d ® Congressional. : A NOTE was received in the Senate on the 7th from the Vice-President 'stating that he would be absent several days, and a resolution was ado&ted that Mr. Thurman be chosen to preside, r. Eaton, from the Committee on A%propriatlons. reported badk the Consular and Diplomatiec Appropriation bill. The Ute Agreement bill was further debated and amended. ...Several bills were reported in the House, one of them providingjfor an increase of the pensions of certain soldiers and sailors who are utterly helpless on account of disease contracted in the service. Mr. Cook asked leave to offer a resolution reciti_n%vthe alleged outrage perpetrated upon J. C. hittaker, a cadet at West Point Academy, and calling on the Secretary of War for any information which he might have in regard to the . queged outrage, and also as to what-steps, if any, had been taken in rifard thereto, but objection was - made by Mr. Aiken on the ground that the authorities at West Point were investigating the matter, and he thought it better to await that decision than to jump at conclusions based on newspaper reports,: esgeciauy as the latest report was that it was ‘a bogus outra%e. During the discussion, in Committee of the Whole, of the Army ApproFriationvblll Mr, Sparks, laboring under the mpression that improger motives had been imputed to him, called Mr. Clymer a liar. [Explanations followed and, Mr, Sparks havIng withdrawn the offensive language, the exgittegnent.pubsided and’business was proceeded TaE Ute Agreement bill was further discussed in the Senate on the Bth....Several private bills were reported in the House. The Army Appropriation bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, the pending question being upon a point df order raised against the amendment prohibiting any of the .appropriations to be used for the subsistence, equipment, transportation or compensation of any part. of the army to be used as a police force to keep K peace at the golls at any election held within any tate. After debate the Chair held that if the army was relievéd by the proposed |amendment from any additional duty, it would be in the line of retrenchment; it could not be otherwise; the conclusion must be arrived at that if the amendment was adopted there would be a saving to the people; therefore, he would rule that the amendment was in order. An appeal was taken, and the ‘decision was sustained—lo 3 to 92. AR IN the Senate the Ute Agreement bill was further debated and amended on the 9th, and it was agreed that general debate on the bill should cease at three J, m. on the 12th, and that a final vote should be had at four p. m. on the same day. Adjourned to the 12th. ....A bill was introduced in the House by Mr. De La Matyr, and referrved, establishing a temporary government for Alaska. = Between fifty and seventy-five bills were reported adversely from the Committee on War Claims, and laid on the table. : v . THa= Senate was not in session on the dth....General debate was commenced in the House, in Committee of the Whole, upon the amendment to the Army Appropriation bill prohibiting the use of troops at- the polls as a police force, Messrs. Hawley, Robesgon, Kiefer, McCoid, Haskell; Frye, Conger and Caswell speaking against the amendment, the Demooratic majority taking little or no part in the debate. ~ Y G

Domestic. GoLD coins, hollowed out and. filled with base metal, are reported to be_in ecirculation in New York City. . o THE President has approved the Star Mail Route Deficiency bill. IT was stated on the 7th that ‘many of the officers at West Point believed that Whittaker, the colored: cadet, had mutilated himself, and held that the absence of serious injuries, as shown by a medical examination, demonstrated the falsity of his description of the assault made on him. Others rejected this theory, and placed implicit confidence in his story. | - JACKSON & MORSE, grain exporters, of Boston, have failed, with liabilities estimated at $lOO,OOO. They operated extensively in Chicago, where, with the exception of $26,000 borrowed from personal friends in Boston, their obligations rest, : ON the evening of the 6th John Petrie, fifty-one years old, of Baltimore County, Md., married a young lady of twenty-two. On the morning of the Bth he went out in the garden and blew his head off with a shotgun. - - , © THE Military Committee of |the lower house of Congress on the Bth appointed a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Sparks, Johnson and Brown, to inquire into the: alleged outrage upon Cadet Whittaker, at West - Point. - Se ! Frve miners at work in ‘the Preston eolliery, in the Schuylkill (Pa.) coal region, were severely and perhaps fatally burned on the Bth, by an explosion of fire-damp. ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the Bth that the New York Central Syndicate had closed out the last of the 850,000 shares of stock purchased of Mr. Vanderbilt last fall. It purchased at '1.20, and sold at an average of 1.30. Jay Gould secured . 56,000 -of the shares disposed of on the Bth, and Mr, Vanderbilt had a proposition from him to pur-’ chase an additibnal block of 100,000 shares under consideration, and would give him an answer in thirty days. : i A CONFERENCE of the Mormon Chureh, which closed at Balt Lake on the Bth, released many late arrivals from Europe from the payment of debts .amounting to $BOO,OOO for their passage money, authorized the purchase of cows and sheep for poor people, and appointed fifty elders to proselyting missions in the United States and Europe. = Ox the afternoon of the Bth a car attached to a passenger train on the Bellaire & pouthwgstem Railway jumped the ‘track on a trestle eighteen miles from Bellaire, Obhio, and fell fifteen feet to the ground. Four or five persons were seriously injured, one of them fatally. | ’ THE amount of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards issued to postmasters upon requisitions during- the first nine months of the present fiscal year aggregate in value $23,979,335, an increase over the issues for the ecorresponding nine ‘months of the preyious fiscal year of $83,016,062, or about 143¢ per cent: The greatest increase s in the sales of postal cards. GENERAL HATCH'S command, operating in Seuthern New Mexico, had an engagement, lasting four hours, with Vietoria’s band of Apaches on the 7th. The savages’ finally broke and fled, leaving several of their dead on the fleld and considerable stock, which fell into the hands of the- sol- ; diers. Captain Carroll, of the Ninth ‘Cavalry, and seven troopers were wounded. - ‘GENERAL MILES, who passed through Bt. Paul on the aftetnoon of the 9th, ex- | pressed ‘the opinfon that trouble with the Northwestern Indians might be expected during this summer, but nothing like . general. WaE,[ iada s DA RS @ e vai Yy MG i - THE announcement -was made from New Yorkon the 9th that Williamson,, the first-class swindler, forger dnd mafl-robber, Pittsburgh and for stealing letters in Phila-

delphia, and was anything buvthe half-crazy fellow he had been represented to be. CADET WHITTAKER appeared before the Board of Inquiry at West Point on the Oth, and was subjected to a rigid examination. He repeated the story of the assault recently made on him, and it is said no serious discrepancies were found in his statements. THE New York Supreme Court, in affirming the judgment of- the Court of General Sessions, refusing to compel W. 'H. Vanderbilt to consent to the termination of the trust created by him for the benefit of his brother Cornelius, rebuked Scott Lord, the latter’s attorney, for making the application. ; ~ THE fishing schooner Annie C. Nor‘wood anda crew of fourteen men, hailing from Gloucester, Masgs., are supposed .to have been lost in the March gales. THE receipts of the.walking match in New York, which closed on the night of the 10th, aggregated $28,683, of which amount Hart, the victor, received §%,175, and the others amounts proportioned to the distance they made. Hart also received the sweepstakes, $9,000,. and $l,OOO. for beating Brown's record. ' THE Secretary of the Interior has decided that the engineering difficulties met in constructing the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway from Algona to Sheldon, lowa, warranted the slight deviation from the line of definite location filed at Washington, and that the land grant is consequently not affected thereby.

TeE Judge of the Dauphin County (Pa.) Circuit Court has decided that mutual aid associations, which pay a certain sum to the family of a deceased member, are not insurance companies, and, therefore, not ‘subject to the laws of the State regulating them. . i A rURIOUS gale did great damage to property at Buffalo on the 10th. The waters of the lake were dashed over the stone piers with such force as to submerge many lowlying districts beyond. A train of cars, approaching the city, ran into four feet of water and was abandoned. THE six days’ walk in New York for the O’Leary belt ended at half past nine o’clock on the evening of the 10th, Hart (colored), being first; Pegram (colored), second: Howard, third, and Dobler, fourth. Hart made 565 miles, the greatest achievemeat in this' line on record. - Pegram made 5437% miles; Howard, 534%, and Dobler, 531. Two MEN were killed and twelve wounded by a premature explosion of dynamite in a quarry at Downington, Pa., on the 10th. L THERE were fourteen hundred business failures in the United States during the first three months of the present year, against twenty-five hundred for the corresponding period last year. 1 PETROLEUM CENTRE, Pa., lost several of its largest buildings by fire on the 10th. . e * THERE arrived at the port of New York during last March 21,658 immigrants, against 5,965 in the same month last year. During thethree months ended March 31, last, the number of immigrants arriving at the same port was 35,825; during same time last year, 11,114. The number of immigrant arrivals during the twelve months ended March 81, last, was 168,656 ; during the previous twelve months, 83,833. . A TWO-STORY tenement house at Haverhill, Mass.,” occupied by ten families, was destroyed by fire on the 11th, two of the inmates perishing in-the flames. - ONE man was killed and several others were severely injured by a falling wall during the progress of a fire in Wilmington, N. C., on the morning of the 11th. }

Personal and Political. At the late election in Fond du Lac, Wis., SBing Yan, a Chinaman, took out his naturalization papers and voted. - - THE lowa Democratic State Convention was held at Burlington on the 7th, and delegates were selected to represent the State in the Cincinnati Convention. No instructions were given, but the sentiment of the Convention unmistakably favored Tilden. THERE was no choice for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor at the election in Rhode Tsland on the 7th, the Republican candidates not receiving a majority of all the votes cast. The Legislature, however, is largely Republican. ' : 'PRESIDENT HAYES on the 7th nominated William A. Newell, of New York, to be Governor of Washington Territory. - THE Connecticut State Republican Convention met at New Haven on the 7th and elected delegates to the Chicago Convention. The delegation was said to be divided be‘tween Blaine, Edmunds and Washburne. . + leNATIUS DONNELLY ' has written a letter to the Committee on Elections of the National House of Representatives, asking that the allegation that a friend of his wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Springer, of Illinois, making a corrupt proposition, be fully investigated. THE widow of Daniel S. Dickinson died in New York on the morning of the Bth. THE State Democratic Convention of Oregon was held at Portland on ‘the Bth Candidates for District Judges and District, Attorneys were nominated. The platform adopted advocates economy in public affairs, quniform taxation, equal protection to capital and labor, regulation by legislative acts of rates of comm‘ofx carriers, maintenance of public schools, free elections, without interference by military; condemns keeping alive the bitterness of the late war; censures President Hayes for vetoing the Chinese bill; declares the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court in relation to the Election laws as favoring the Republican party; pledges sup port to all laws favoring untrammeled suffrage; opposes a protective tariff, and denounces the third-term movement. b THE Republican State Convention of Neébraska for the selection of delegates to the National Convention will be held at Columbus on the 19th of May. ; ' :

THE Senate on the 9th confirmed the Hominations of James B. Angell, of Michigan, as Minister to China, and of Joseph F. Swift, of California, and William H. Tres.cott, of SBouth Carolina, to be Commigsioners to. China, to constitute, with the United: States Minister to that country, a commission to negotiate and conclude by treaty a settlement of such matters of interest to the two Governments, now pending between the same, as may be confided toit. Tae Oregon. Demoeratic State Convention 4t its late session elected Tilden delegates to the Cineinnati Convention. " GENERAL GRANT arrived at Mobile on the afternoon of the 9th, and was banqueted by the Cotton Exchange in the evening. TuE Minnesota Republican State Convention for the election of delegates to the Chicago Convention has been called to meet at Bt, Paul on the 20th of May, . -

" THE date of holding the Minnesota State Republican Convention bas been changed from May 20 to May 19th, 8o as not to conflict with the Democratic State Convention on the former day. : : ' W. A. Howarp, Governor of Dakota Territory, died at Washington, D. C.; on thet 10th, aged sixty-seven. e IN a caucus of Democratic United States Senators on the 10th it was decided to postpone action on the Spofford-Kellogg case until the Geneva Award bill should be disposed of, : THE lowa Greenback Convention ta nominate State officers and to select delegates to the National Convention will meat at Des Moines May 19. IT was stated on the 11th that, since the last disbursement of interest on Govern- ) ment four-per-cent. bonds, when Mr. W. H. | Vanderbilt was found to be the owner of $31,000,000, he had sent $20,000,000 additional to the Treasury for registration. ) |

: Foreign. : E JAY GOuLD is said to have leased the Great Western Railway of Canada, guaranteeing the bondholders a certain rate of interest. THE steamer Syria, from New Orleans to Liverpool, has been abandoned at sea in & sinking condition. Her crew were rescued by a steamship from Hamburg. A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 9th says the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs had demanded the surrender of an American convicted by United States Consul Heap of manslaughtery for killing an Ottoman, and sentenced by him to two months’ imprisonment. Mr. Heap refused to deliver the culprit, and negotiations would follow. AFTER a year of almost uninterrupted success a portion of thé Chilian army has ‘been defeated with great loss by the Peruvians. The Chilian fleet which .made the attack on Arica was so severely handled by the gunners on the shore fortifications that it was forced to retire for repairs. Among the killed in the naval engagement ~was the commander of the Huascar, the third occupying that post who has given up his life in the present struggle. A PARIS telegram of the 9th says nine ladies in that city had refused to pay their taxes until allowed to vote. . PaurL pE CassaeNAC has declared that Prince Napoleon is incorrigigle, and transferred his allegiance to Prince Victor, his son. > HERBERT GLADSTONE, Liberal, son of the ex-Premier Gladstone, who was defeated in the recent election for Middlesex, will stand, it:is said. as a candidate for Leeds, his: father, who was returned for Leeds and Midlothian, having elected to accept the latter, - - ; : THE Emperor of Germany hgs positively refused to accept the resignation of Prince Bismarck. : THE Jesuits are to be expelled from the French colonies also, it is stated. b - TaE Spanish Cabinet has refused to recommend mercy in the case of the wouldbe regicide. ‘ ’ A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 10th says the people of Van, in Armenia, and the surrounding villages were starving. One hundred young girls had perished in the former city. - | THE report of the death of King Theebaw, the drunken ruler of Burmah, “was denied in a dispatch from Rangoon, which was published on the 11th. The dishatch says he had had the small-pox but was recovering. The dispatch adds that the astrologers having attributed his attack to irritated spirits the King ordered a sacrifice of 700 lives. Accordingly seven . hundred persons of different ranks were burned alive under the towers of the city walls. There was a frightful panic at Mandalay, and theusands were leaving the city. : A MEXICAN newspaper intimates that the United States are wai'ing an opportunity to-take advantage of the Greasers, and warns its readers to look out for the Americans in the event of another revolution.

: LATER NEWS, - - A BERLIN telegram of the 12th says the Bundesrath had reversed its vote on the Imperial Stamp act which led to the proffered resignation of Prince Bizmarck. : Ur to the 12th the net Liberal gain in members of the British Parliament was 106. A LoNDON telegram of the 12th says that the 700 persons sacrificed at Mandalay for the restoration of King Theebaw's health were buried alive, not burned alive, a 8 before reported. : CHASTINE Cox (colored), who was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Dr. Hull, and Pietro Balbo, a wife-murderer,. have been re-sentenced to be hanged in New York, May 28. The Court of Appeals was asked fo give them a new trial, which was refused in both cases. ‘ IT was stated on the 12th that there were 3,000 immigrants then in New York waiting transportation to lowa, Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and each arriving steanier brought large additions to the number. Among the latest arrivals were thirty families from Finland, bound for Minnesota. The women wore red homespun and the men suits of skin, ‘ ' THE REV. CHARLES E. WALKER, of Somerset, Mass., was expelled from the wministry on the 12th by the Methodist Conference, for unpriestly and immoral conduct. THE Louisiana_Democratic Convention met ‘at New Orleans on the 12th. Resolutions were adopted urging the United States Senate to seat Spofford. Delegates were elected to the Cincinnati Convention, who are supposed to be Hancock men, but they were uninstructed, except to vote as the majority may decide and tomaintain the twothirds rule. - | - KEMBLE, the alleged corrupter of the Pennsylvania Legislature, returned to Harrisburg on ‘the 12th, to suffer the punishment imposed by the court. The Judge wished to consulthis associates before fixing the penalty, and Kemble was released until the following day. i :

THE United States Senate passed the Ute-Agreement bill on the 12th—37 to 16. A conference report was made on the Census bill and adopted. Mr. Bruce introduced a bill to reimburse colored depositors for losses incurred by the failure of the Freedmen’s Bank. A pumber of bills and resolutions were introduced in the House.. General debate on 'the Army bill, in Committee of the Whole, was concluded, several Republicans speaking against the pending amendment; a ‘proviso was, on motion of Mr. Hurd, added to the amendment to the effect that it shall not be construed to prevent the use of troops to protect against domestic violence on application of the, Legislature of any State, or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be ccnvened, and the amendment as amends ed was adopted. The. bill and amendmentwere reported to the House, and the main question was ordered.

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. TaE first report of the State Bureau of Statistics is in the hands of the printer. The Bureau has done the work so much better than was expected that figures enough have been harvested to fill a volume of twelve hundred pages. The printing bureau insists that a book of four hundred and fifty pages is all that can be printed with. the present appropriation, and this will necessitate the elision of some of the details, though the totals will remain as at present set out. THE Supreme Court has decided the case of the State vs. Dougiass, appealed from Fountain County, reversing the decision of the lower court. It appears that defendant was arrested and on being taken before a ‘Justice of the Peace, gave bail on Sunday. The lower court held that the action of the Justice was void, as violating the Sunday law, but the Supreme Court held that the Justice was serving the public good and therefore sustained his action. ’ . THE State oratorical contest will be held in Indianapolis, April 15. Representatives wil] be present from Wabash, Osburn, Bloomington, Butler, Hanover, Franklin and Pardue. Mgrs. CLEM has been sentenced to the Fe. male Reformatory for four years, a motion for a new trial having been over-ruled. THE annual report of the Board of Health for 1879, filed on the 2d, the first official compilation of the kind ever made in Indianapolis, shows one thousand four hundred and seventy deaths, with a ratio of 13.47 to the thousand, and one in every 7,420 population, alower rate than in any yeur since the record has been kept, save 1878. Consumption furnished the largest number of victims, one -hundred and ninety-seven.

[ At Logansport the other night, at the | Academy of Music, during the performance May Fisk cowhided Walter Landis, city editor of the Journal, on account of an article published against her company that morning. The manager stood at the stairway, prevent- | ing his exit, while May ran him through the ‘ audience with a whip. He drew a revolver, [ but it would not go off. ' . | THE quadrennial assessment of real estate | in Indiana began on the morning of the sth. | DisapPoINTED love caused Miss Ella Angel- ‘ ton, of Shelbyville, aged twenty, to commit | suicide by shooting. - A WOMAN and child were recently burned to death in a log cabin near Warsaw. The husband and father has been arrested for the crime. i BAXTER, gditor of the Waterloo Journal, who was sued by John Phillips, an attorney of that place, for slander, layirg his damages at 'slo,ooo, was sentenced the) other day by the jury to pay Phillips one cent. THERE was a double wedding in the Episcopal Chureh at Worthingfon, a few evenings since, when, to the surprise of most persons present, after the first couple had been joined in wedlock, the line of young gentlemen and ladies before the altar was reformed, and thé second couple were married. : For seventeen years each successive grand jury in Howard County has condemned the jail at Kokomo as unfit for use, and nothing more has been done about it.” A caLL has been issued for a meeting of the State Dairymen’s Association on the 28th, 29th and 30th, to meet with the National Association. . : Pror. CoLLETT has transmitted to Wash-. ington a report showing the extent to which tobacco is cultivated in Indiana. He shows that in seventy-three townships, situated in nineteen different counties, tobacco is more or less grown, and he does not include any counties with less than fifty acres, or any township with less than five acres devoted to “its cultivation. ' A parTyY of twelve in a wagon were thrown over an embankment two miles west of Terre Haute the other day, and Miss Otterman and Miss Hanna were drowned. ' TuEY have discovered mica in paying quantities near Madison. ' THE scarlet fever prevails to a dangerous extent in the city of Logansport. A FEW weeks ago the Greensburg & Hartsville Turnpike Company increased its tolls, and the cdnsequence was the gates were all torn down ‘by the farmers. The gates were repaired, but a few nights since a mob of about one hundred farmers again demolished the gates, and escaped without being found out. ‘ ‘A FEW nights ago a miner named Martin Somers, while lying drunk on the track at Knightsville, was killed by a passenger train. WmLE the south-bound freight train on the Fort Wayue & Jackson Road was switching cars on the morning of the 7th at Auburn, James' Stevens, brakeman, was caught between two cars and fatally injured internally. i TuEe flouring mill of Cook & Abbott. at Lockport, was destroyed by fire on the night of the Fth. Loss $lB,OOO. ~ AT the late session of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor in'lndianapolis the following officers were elected: Grand Dictator, J. E. Cowan; Vice Dictator, W. N. Clift; Assistant Dictator, T. A. Hardin; Grand Guide, T. H. Walker; Chaplain, Rev. J. D. Jones; Guardiav, W. F. Ogden; Sentinel, N. H. Nel son; Trustee for three years, James'T. Dar, nell; Represertative to the Supreme Lodge, J. B. Lyre; Reporter, J. B. Jacobs; Treasurer, P. W. Bartholomew. 1 Mg. RoBERrT 8. FISHER, & very influential member of the Methodist denomination in Northern Indiana, died at his home in Union City early on the morning of the Bth. Mr, Fisher was proprietor of the Commercial Bank ofthatplage. 0o o o , - J. N. ZruBLIN, of Pendleton, one of the oldest residents of the county, recently became insane over his financial troubles, and on the morning of the 7th attempted to com‘mit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, but his hand was seized before he gave the fatal cut. He made a second attempt on the evening of the same day, which was only frustrated hy the presence of a son, who disarmed him just as “e was in the act of drawing the knife across his throat. : . Joux HANNEGAN, a track laborer on the Pittsburgh, ¥Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, was struck and almost instantly killed on the morning of the 6th, near Warsaw, by a freight train whose approach he did not notice. Tnr follow ng are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.14@ 1.15. | Corn,.BsaB6¢; Oats, 31@33e. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, [email protected]; Corn, 41 @42%; Oats, 36}{@37c; Rye, 80@80%4c; Bar ley, No.R Fall, 95@%6e. - & - ,

—¢¢l shall know better next time,” said Mrs. Keepupwiththestyle. ¢ That hateful milliner told me the hat was so*nethin§ new, and there were four hats just like it in church; but I might have known better. I saw the new moon over my leftshoulder. Of course I'd be unlucky.””—New Haven Register. Sl e S —The highest ‘salaries paid by any American collegefa.re those of the professors of Columbia, who receive amounts varying from $7,500 to $3,375 —The ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico is said to be showing some signs of returning reason. = iy

‘ POLITICAL POINTS. e Kellogg vouches for his own 'moral character, a job wmost people would hardly care to undertake. : ——Ex-Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, who hasthe reputation of a shrewd political observer and manager, told a ’ reporter at New Haven, the other day, ‘‘that Grant is certain to be the Republican candidate for President, and will ,be easy to beat.”

- ——llf a dark horse is bound to win ‘the Democratic nomination for President, the St. Paul Globe begs leave to mention Judge Renssalaer R. Nelson, who presides over the United States Court for the District of Minnesota—a Democrat of the- Jacksonian school, a jurist of acknowledged ability, and a man of probity, holding the esteem of all with whom he has come in contact.. ——There is a wonderful lack of the usual cases of Southern bulldozing for a Presidential year. Our Republican friends must ‘‘ hump’ themselves. It is drawing near the time for the selection of another President, and not to have some cases of bulldozing to start the year with, gives almost a melaacholy tone to Republican papers. Gentlemen, can not you seng a delegation to the Southern States, with sealed instructions. to stir things up and make matters livelyP—lndiana State Sertinel. ~ ——The New York Sun says of Mr. Dorsheimer that his declarations of principle in the present political contest, announcing as they do his unalterable opposition to any man. running for a third term, are ¢ timely and patriotic.” *“ Who ought to be the Democratic candidate,” remarks the Sun again, ‘“we do not undertake to say, but whoever he may be, we hope the sentiment expressed by Mr. Dorsheimer may become the universal sentiment of the Democracy, and that Democratic success may thus be made certain.” ‘

——Electing Grant seems, in the minds of his followers, to be regarded as a panacea for all political ills; and their methods of announcing their opinion on that point recalls very forcibly the methods sometimes adopted in advertising 'a panacea for human ills. ¢Do you want to prevent the pardon of the mun who was disloyal to General Pope,” says Carpenter; ¢ vote for Grant.”” ¢‘The country needs a strong man,”” says another; ¢‘vote for Grant.”. “If you want a man that stands by his friends, even when they are under fire or indictment, put Grant in the White House.” How much it reads like the hand-bills on the outer wall: *“lf you have the headache, or liver complaint, or pip, or heaves, or spavin, or toothache, try Halfboy's pad.”’—Delroit Free Press.

Grant’s Part in the Great Fraund., The letter from Mexico recently printed in the Sun giving the views of General Grant in regard to public aflairs, past and present, as gathered from conversations with him and his party on the trip from Havana to Vera Cruz, is interesting in many respects, but especially so in reference to his part in consummating the great fraud. That portion of the letter deserves attention because it relates to an event of the gravest character, the full history of which has yet to be written. The letter says: ‘' When, at the last election, the Commission declared Mr. Hayes President, General Grant tcok decided steps to have him inaugurated. His preparations were complete to use military force in case the Democrats attempted to enforce the claims of Mr. Tilden; that gentleman, the recalcitrant Democratic Senators, and Mr. Randall would have been immediately arrested and imprisoned in Washington, and any State Governments that objected would have been seized by the military.” * This statement is true in the main, but it does not. contain the whole truth by any means. The military preparations are made to hinge upon the action of ¢‘‘the Commission which 'declared Mr. Hayes President,”” when in fact they were organized long before the Commission was created or even con-

The conspiracy to steal the Presidency dates from the hour when Zach Chandler sent out his false and infamous dispatch: ‘Hayes has one hundred and eighty-five votes and is elected.”” He knew, and all the :world knew, and Hayes himself publicly made ‘the admission in a speech to his defecated friends at Columbus, that Mr. %Tilden had been fairly, legally ‘and peaceably elected by a majority of a million of white and colored voters, and by a majority in the Electoral Colleges. Sy ' ' Mo overthrow the popular will was ‘the aim of the conspirators, and Chandler's telegram was the key-note to the most monstrous crime in American history. Upon that foundation alone the fraud was built up, after the election was over, and the result had been recorded. What followed was made to fit the necessity of the case. The device of the visiting statesmen originated with John Sherman. Their purpose, to ‘‘see a fair count,” was illustrated by the fact that they were all chosen from one party, and were all interested in defrauding Mr. Tilden of his rights. . The scandalous corruption at New Orleans, and the bargains with the Returning Boards of Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, have passed into history. The cipher telegrams have revealed that the returns of these three ‘States were made wholly dependent on ‘the action of Wells and Anderson, be‘cause all were necessary to complete the iniquity, and they were all to stand ‘or fall together. Hence the extraordinary efforts of John Sherman and the means emgloyed by him to make that ‘pivotal point secure at any cost. 'How well he succeeded is known, and the prices he paid in public patronage are grovqn by the official records of all the epartments at Washington, and of the gopncipal Custom Houses and Post Ofces and Internal Revenue offices all over the country, where the thieves, the forgers, perjurers and chi_ef»con‘s‘gir- ‘ ators are living in luxury at the public _expense. e s B R It was never intended: by the conSpirators at any time or under any eir‘cumstances to allow Mr. Tilden to be inaugurated as President, or for the Re‘publicans to give up power, éxcept at the cost of civil war. The troops were collected at. Wa&hington _to_ confront Congress. Some of them were brought from the ‘remote frontiers. They were placed. on 4 war footing directly under the command of General Sherman, who was as deep in the conspiracy as

his brother, John Sherman, was known to be. It was a family affair, so far as ‘they were concerned. Outside of their personal interests, it was an affair of the Republican party, seeking by des%eration to . holcf the Government, the Ireasury and the offices, and to keep their dangerous secrets of corruption and thievery from being revealed by a change of administration. With Tilden in the White House, exposure and ruin were inevitable, even if other departments had been fired, as the navy was, three several times in as many 'weeks.’ They could not destroy all the records of long years of plunder. If the Electoral Commission could by any possibility have decided for Tilden, it:would not have helped him in the least, so far as the conspirators were concerned. In that event, the Senate would have delayed the count until the last hour of the 3d of March had been tolled, and then, ‘there being npo election, a President pro tempore would have s‘epped into the White House ' on the morning of the 4th protected by Grant’s bayonets. And there was another contingency by which Grant ‘was to hold over, Mexican fashion, and to perpetuate his Presidency. i This is not the time nor place to discuss Mr. Tilden’s part in this chapter of eventful history. But it may be said that he relied Wit}{l too much trust upon expecting aid from Mr. Conkling, Gen. Butler, Mr. Drexel, and other influential Republicans, ‘who were ‘high in the confidence of Gen. Grant, and in the councils of the Republican party. “How it was possible for Mr. Conkling to espouse the cause of Mr. Tilden without an irreparable rupture of his own political ties seems past understanding. * * . Mr. Conkling made no secret of his opinions concerning the fraud in Louisiana, but he never proposed to make them serviceable to the interest of Mr. Tilden. Indeed, he and his friends expected to turn them to his personal account. A plan was formed to throw out the vote of Louisiana by detaching a sufficient number of Republican Senators, which would have prevented ‘‘a majority of the whole' number of electors appointed,” as required by law. Several of the carpzt-baggers, who had no faith in Hayes, and others were in this. inside conspiracy, the purpose of which was to make Mr. Conkling President pro tem. of the Senate and acting President of the United States until a new election could be held. When the knowledge of this scheme carhe to Mr. Morton’s ears he claimed. precedence over Mr. Conkling and appealed to the carpet-bagoers to stand by him as he had stood by them. .= = 0 0 Late on the Sunday night preceding the vote on Louisiana the friends of Conkling became convinced that their little game could not succeed, and on Monday morning the Senator from New York found -himself suddenly called to Baltimore, and skulked away from the record. That was his contribution to the ¥raud.— Washington Cor.

‘The People Moving. The prominence which the thirdterm movement has assumed is beginning to stir the fountains of political power to their depths. The movement for a mass meeting of Republicans at St. Louis in -opposition to it is very significant, and shows that the public mind is beginning. to be alarmed. The effort to restore Grant is in itself in the direct line toward imperialism. The methcds employed to force him again upon the country are equally so. %‘he one-man power bgr which Cameron in Pennsylvania . and Conkling in New York compelled the friends of all other candidates to succumb to their autocratic will are utterly antagonistic to the spirit of republicanism. Theé more liberal men in the Republican ranks are growing restive and discontented, and object to having their free limbs shackled by two or three men who ‘have undertaken the task of compelling Grant’s renomination. It is perfectly patent to all who have watched this Grant movement from its incipiency, and traced its progress up to the present time, that it is not based on the free will of the ramnk and file. On the contrary, its true significance is found in.the simple word machine; It was perfectly understood that when Grant went abroad the mainspriny of the Eroject wags to rekindle the enthusiasm of his own countrymen by an exhibition of the demonstrations and display which were to follow his footsteps on foreign shores. g His popularity at home had become so impaired that a special effort was needful to restore it. 'lt will hardly be pretended that had he remained at home this third term movement would have ‘been thought of.. His pasty had publicly and repeatedly and deliberately placed itself on record against.it. When ‘now his countrymen see concentrated efforts of an oligarchy to reverse the record by utilizing aid of the crowned heads in all lands to help establish the one man power on our own shores, it is no wonder the masses of the people are becoming alarmed and exhibit a dispogition to resist it. 'T'he movement in Missouri, under the lead of General Henderson, is the outgrowth of a sound and healthful sentiment which should be followed up in other localities. No man understands Grant better than he, and no one in the Republican party has a better right to lead off in a popular demonstration against th>y third term. In a late “speech he re-. ‘viewed the situation with great skill and fidelity. Its closing words should be read and pondered !%all who cherish & regard for. fiophlpr : %?varnment, and were as follows: *“lf Gen--‘eral Grant be acandidate in the present emper of parties, I fear an effort to inaugurate him wlhether. elected or not. The danger of Mexicanizing this republic is greater, in my juglgmént,; than the temporary success of the Democratic party. When the rule of the majority is once broken, the result is either anarchy or monarchy. In preference to either of these, give us the peaceful rule of any party —even tth Greenback partg- The one may be remedied without blood; the other, never. If Ghegeral Grant be élected to & third term, he will be elected to a fourth. If to a fourth, then to a fifth.” 'l‘hmflwb# that this embodies the true sentiment of the best merof all partiss, sud it Shoald po.follpwes 1p TURE R before it may mmggm% el S st B e ~Dammlus . T e