Pike County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 October 1878 — Page 1

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CURRENT EVENTS. i. —Yellow fever reports for the 8th: New Orleans, 49 deaths and 18(5 new cases reported; Memphis, 21 deaths in city and 12 more in suborbs; Canton, Miss., 9 deaths and 9 new cases; Ocean Springs, 25 deaths to date; Port Gibson, np deaths in town,bat a large num ber reported from surrounding country; Pattersoville, La., 20 deaths and 75 cases te date; Baton Rouge, 7 deaths and 47- new oases; Morgan City, 63 deaths to date and fever increasing ; Thibodeaux, 17 new cases and 2 deaths; Brownsville, Tenn., 10 new •cases and 4 deaths, among the latter Mr. Westbrodk, editor of the Bee, and John Ware; Chattanooga, 4 deaths and 20 new cases; La Grange, 2 deaths and 4 new cases. Hopefield, Ark., opposite Memphis, reports 80 down with fever and asks for assistance. —For the 24 hours ending at noon on the lCth, there were 40 deaths from yellow fever at New Orleans and 118 new cases reported; at Memphis, 22 deaths in city and 17 in adjacent country r at Baton Rouge, 7 deaths‘and 95 new cases in 48 hours; at Canton, Miss., 3 deaths and 7 new eases; at Biloxi, 1 death and 29 new cases in 48 hours; at Bay St. Louis, 10 deaths and 23 cases in 72 hours; ii,t McComb City, 3 deaths and 20 or 30 cases; at Port Gibson, 2 deaths and several new cases in 24 hours. The fever had appeared at every station on the Louisville Road between Memphis and Paris, Tenn., excepting Stanton and Bell’s Station, and .,tl.e Howards were running a medical train out daily to attend to the wants of the small towns along the line. Similar^ trains are to be pat on the other roads ont of Memphis. The epidemic was still very virujent in the country around Vicksburg and extending to all plantations. . .

rtedion Indian ib. At -The failure of the City of Glasgow ik has been followed by that of a ber of large firms, principally in East India trade, the most promiunut being that of Smith, Fleming & •Co., Lojadon, whose liabilities are estited at §10,000,000. The most horrible atrocities were lifted by the fugitive Cheyennes in tiieit passage through Decatur County, Kansas, a large number of settlers being killed with their entire families, the women suffering the most terrible indignities. The Joint Congressional Committee agaged in. taking testimony as to iropriety of transferring the control ilfelndians from the Interior .pqr ’’enitory, Jo be gone about a weel Muscogee the comujittee were received at the depot by a delegation of Indians representing the leading tribes, and escorted to the Fair Grounds, where the animal fair of these' tribes was being held. After inspecting the display of agricultural and mechanical products the committee were invited to the main stand, where addresses were made by several I ndians and by members of the committee. Stoppages were also made at Eufala, McAllister, A|oko, Caddo, Vinita, and other points, in order to give the committee full opportunity to inter, view the leading men of the various tribes. The Tennessee Greenbackers have r ominated Louis T. Tillman for Governor to fill the vacancy on their ticket. Tillman is a farmer, aged 62, and has been in Congress. r

Turkey hasr definitely rejected the Austro-Turkish convention. News from virions^arts of Bosnia shows that the 'lurks and insurgents have abandoned further open resistance, having become convinced that neither moral nor material assistance can be longer hoped for fiomthe Porte, unless other political complications arise. The London Times regularly publishes. at certain seasons of the year, estimates of the amount of grain in the United Kingdom, and the quantity required to feed the people until* the next harvest. According to the latest returns^ a greater amount than usual of ' dour from abroad will be required to supply the deficiency, and the writer thinks, from a careful review of the figures from France, that duriBg the co ming winter she will be a competitor w: th Great Britain for the supplies from tb e United States'. Russia probably will b« able to supply but little, and the surplus inthe Hungarian granaries will be heavily drawn upon by the Austrian troops in Bosnia. :.n the 10 Cotton States last year there wore 12,000,000 acres of land under cotto , cultivation, which produced 4,485,42 I bales of cotton, and daring the 12 m> nths ending the 30th of Jane, 1877, nr nannfactnred cotton, valued at *171,.111, 508, and cotton manufactures of all ki ids, valued at *10,901,311, were rape rted. •- •

he Chief Commissioner of the Paris Exposition has tendered the nse of the Trocadero Palace fora special performance in behalf of the yellow fever sufferers, which was announced Jio take place on the 15th. At the last session Congress passed a hill advancing to Captain Eads the money appropriated to pay him for his jetty works on the Mississippi, which, according to the original bill, was not due until the completion of the contract; but before it was paid some of Captain Eads’s creditors claimed that it should be pud to them, to satisfy old indebtedness* The matter was referred to the Attorney-General, who has decided that the intention of Congress in making • this appropriation available was to enable Captain Gads to continue tip work, ■§£I. ^' . ■.<

and not to pa; his creditors. The opinion was submitted to the Cabinet and approved, and the Secretary of Wat 'will act accoriingly in disbursing the money. -The Yellow Fever Commission met at New Orleans on the 7th and 'immediately entered upon their investigations. The C< immission expesf to gather an immense amount of testimony by investigating particular cases,' going from house to hduse, making inquiries of convalesces iti their relatives and friends, examining the sanitary condition of the focTof the disease, and in numeroES other clea’- np the o general piincip kys attempting to and reach some upon which a respectable and axiomatic idea can b< based. An official statement from the ' ury Department says that 388 Na banks, with a capital of $48,797,9 paid no dividends for the sic ending March , 1878, and 357 “Banks,, with a capital of $58,736,950, paid no dividends for t ie six months ending September 1. 'The rates of earnings to capital and surplus of National banks for the year 1876 was 6.9 per cent.; in 1877 5.6 per cent., and for 1878 less than 6 per cent. iu< inee'' ^f—info In consequence bf—information received by the Department of Justice of attempts to breakup Republican organizations in certain Southern-States, At-torney-General Devens h^ts instructed the United States Attorneys in Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina, to promptly arrest and hold foir trial all offenders for a violation of Section 5,520 of theJRevisedj Statutes. ■

6»n.%ew. Wallace, recen!,ly appointed Governor of New Mexico, has notified the President of continued disturbances and law lessness in Lineolp-Coon-ty, in that territory, and requeslgd-tfih aid of the arm y oOhe United States to preserve the peace. The President has therefore issued a proclamation commanding all riotous bands to disperse within five days. An excursion train .on the Old Colony Railroad, returning from a boat race at Silver Lake, ran off the track when within about seven miles of P-oston, wrecking five cars and killing 25 persons and injuring many others. Among the killed are 1. A. Hasy and Charles Morgan, of the Boston Express, and Patrick Reagan, the oarsman. Township elections were held in Connecticut on the 7th, but the result shows no decided ]k>liticnl gains to either party. The emperance question enlarge villages east of the Connecticut River voted no license. The Republicans of the Second Missouri District have nominated Nathan Cole for Congress. The Republicans of the First Louisiana Congressional Dia ■ tf-ict have indorsed the nominee of the National-Greehbackers, Mr. H. C. Castellanos.

There are reports of Indian outrages in WesteA Texas. In Kerr County, 60 mile3 northeast of San Antonio, three girls and a boy, named Dawdv, were scalped and I dled, the girls being previously subjected to the most inhuman treatment. Elijah Gates, State'Treasurer of Missouri, and Joseph AY. Mercer, e:c-State Treasurer, were arrested in Kansas City on the 10 th,upon indictments found by a special Grand Jury, both being charged with receiving benefits from State deposits, which is a Penitentiary offense, and the latter with the additional crime of embezzlement. The parties were taken to Independence, where both were admitted to bail. The-Missouri Republican State Convention,- held at St. Louis on the 9th, nominated A. F. Denny, of Randolph, for Judge oi^ the ‘Supreme Court, R. Baldwin, editor of the AVarrensburg Standard, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wm. N. Norval, of Livingston, for Register of Lands, and John B. Tracey, of Greene, for Railroad Commissioner. The platform declares that gold and silver coin are the recognized standard money of the world, and that all our currency shculd at all times be kept at par with gold and convertible into coin at the will of the holder; Opposes the repeal of the Resumption act; condemns all attempts to array labor and capital against each other; inrraigns the Democratic party as a constant disturber of public tranquility and confidence, ete., as .faithless to the obligations of the Nation aThonor, an d as the chief support of wild schemes >f inflation, repudiation, etc., etc.

The German Reichstag reassembled on the 9th, ond Bismarck made another speech urging the adoption of the antiSocialist bili. In concluding li e asked them to repose confidence in the Government, saving: “Are you. more afraid of m s than of the Social Deliberate? If so, another must take my place. I wish that the three parties which intend to enable us to pass this bOl should generally go hand in hand, forming a united bulwark against all tempests to which the German Empire may be exposed.” A Washington special of this 8th says that the Im ban outbreak has bsen a sub* ject of much discussion at recent Cabinet meeting. Army officers contend that the Cheyennes left the agency because they were starving, and th at the Sioux are intending to join them in a raid upon the Black Hills. Indian authorities, on the other hand, claim that the Qheyennes were wdl fed, and had no reason to revolt; that the Sioux are going to adapt theii new agent lea without any tumble, and that; if they do any fighting it will be it Ql the Gayernment ? garnet tin Sk >; '

Cheyennes. It is firmly believed at the War Department, however, that there is to be a long and bloody war in Dakota this fall and winter, and preparations are being made accordingly to concentrate all available troops, the number of which will be about 2,700.

minor notes. ®ie mail-contractor on the line between Port-Worth, Texas, and Fort Yuma, Ariaoaa, the longest stage-line In the United States, has secured an order from the War Department for troops to accompany his nmil-obaches, which have been attacked and rob MI by Mexican bandits 27 times in the past two weeks. Once, when the coach eon- | taiined 700. pounds of silver, the robbers 3ercame the- passengers and driver and »de off Wit';,horses, vehicle and all. A raid oh ft licit distillers in Sharp, Baxter and Izard Counties, Ark., recently, resulted in the capture of ten moonshiners and the destruction of several stills. The prisoners were taken to little Rbek. Butts, who murdered William Roberts at Forest Springs, Nev., abotjj a year ago, was hangedohthe lit. V The construction of the Iwadville branch of the Atchison, Topeka ana Santa Pe Railroad will be^eguu at once. The yellow fever has broken out in Madrid, Spain, the infection having been introduced by soldiers returned from Cuba. An insurrection of negroes has occurred in Santa Cruz, andjmany murders and other atrocities are reported. Gen. Grant was given a dinner by Minister Noyes in Paris on the 3d, at which many distinguished guests were present. At Ansonia, Conn., on the evening of the 3d, a colored man named Ed. Freeman grossly assaulted and seriously injured an interesting little white girl, aged only seven years. The scoundrel was arrested the next day and taken to the village lockup, from which he was soon after removed by an infuriated crowd of work- : men,- who placed a rope around his neck and dragged him a quarter of a mile to Colburn Hill, where they were about to string him up, when the Sheriff put in his appearance and rescued: the prisoner at the muzzle of his reviver. The negro was badly injured by his -rough treatment at the hands of the mob. Rodney Green, colored, was hanged at Magnolia, Miss., on the 4th, for the murder of bis brother-in-law, Isaac Harris. He made a confession of his erime before his death. Gen. T. M. Griffith, U. S. A., and his daughter, are among the victims of yellow fever at Cayuga, Hinds County, Miss. Gen. Banks was defeated for renomination in the Fifth Massachusetts Republican Congressional Convention, his successful competitor being Selwyn Z. Bowman. An imperial decree has been published at Pesth, accepting the resignations of the whole Hungarian Ministry, but ordering them to continue the administration of affairs until the appointment of their successors. ^ Daniel Read, LL. D., for many years President of the University of Missouri, and P rior to that Professor in the State Universities of Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin, died df paralysis, at the residence of his son-ii f his s W in educational matters, his career as a university officer extending over a period of more than SO years. John Thomas, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Tenn., on the 5th, for committing a most terrible outrage upon a young white girl. Among the lynchers were a number of colored men. The Sheriff made an ineffectual attempt to stay the fury of the mob. Wesley W. Bishop has made another confession at Norwich, Ct., in which he admits himself having administered morphine, in the fatal dose, to his wife. , Clerks living in the Western States employed in the Executive Departments of the Government are allowed ten days’ leave of absence to go home and vote. Another arrest of counterfeiters has been made at To wanda, Pa. A vigilance committee of Darke County, O., at Tampico, on the night of the 5th riddled with bullets the body of an old negro named Steve Wade, who was suspected of thieving and had been ordered by the vigilantes to leave the country, which he neglected to do. A successful raid has recently been made by Government officers on illicit distilleries in Overton, Jackson, Fentress and Putnam. Counties, Tenn. Eben W. Keyes, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Denver, Col., committed suicide on the 6th by shooting himself through the heart. Domestic difficulties—which recently culminated in Ids wife’s leaving her home during her husband’s absence and taking with her their four children—was doubtless the cause of the deed. The homestead was in his wife’s name, and he was ordered by her attorneys to leave it on the day he killed himself. He declared he never wouldleave the home alive, and he did not. ^lis widow, who was a Miss Carleton, is at her former home, Newton, Mass. A working train on the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad was thrown from the track by stfiking a cow, killing the conductor, Richard Nash, and a brakeman, Edward Adamsyand severely injuring other train

men. The ingprrection in Sapta Cruz has been UueBsA'Snd the ring-ieaders captured. The cause of the insurrection is said to hare been a disagreement between negroes and planters regarding labor contracts. The Paris Exhibition will be cloeed Not. 10. The German Socialist Journals advise their followers, in the event of the passage of the anti-Socialist bill, to emigate to the United States or Asia Minor.' An immense crowd at St. Louis on the night of the 8th witnessed, the grand spectacular procession of the “Veiled Prophets,** which was pronounced a decided success. Judge McCandless, Chief Justice of New Mexico, has tendered his resignation. The village of Montieello, Jones County, Iowa, was struck by a tornado about halfpast 5 oh the evening of the 8th and a number of buildings completely demolished, the most prominent being the Catholic Church. No lives were lost, but many persons were injured. Four miners were instantly killed by a gas explosion in a Witkesbarre (Penn.) mine on the night of the 8th, caused by one of their number Venturing into the mine with a naked lamp. It is reported that Dr. Petermann, the eminent German geographer, died by his own hand, domestic troubles having driven him to a state of desperation. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has organized under the territorial laws of Arizona, with D. D. Colton, as Dissident, and it is said that work will be .'begun at once. Thomas Strother, engineer, and Michael O’Barr, fireman,.were killed by an accident on the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern Railroad on the 9th. Bev. Mr Hayden, of Madison^nn., who was recently under trial for the murder ol ■ Mary Stannard and discharged, has been again arrested in consequence of the dlKovery made by a post mortem examination that 1 i the girl had been poisoned by arsenic, The 1 i theory of the prosecution is that Hayden

administered arsenic to her, telling her it was an abortive potion; that it did not take immediate effect, and the girl, perhaps suspecting that she had been poisoned!, started to run for home, when he dashed out her brains with a stone. It was developed in the former examination that the minister had purchased a quantity of arsenic for the alleged purpose of killing rats. Judge Dillon, of the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, bavin; further heard the case of the Union Trqst Company of New York against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Hallway, has entered decrees that the defendant is in default of interest on the consolidated mortgage bonds due April 1,1877, and that the complainant is entitled to recover the amount. Beeent advices from New Zealand state that five Wesleyan missionaries were murdered and eaten by the Bush natives near the Malieola coast, and that 80 of the tribe were killed by traders and coast natives in retaliation. Mon. Alex. McKenzie anu his Cabinet have resigned, and the Governor-General of Canada has intrusted Hon. Jno. A. McDonald with the formation of a new Cabinet. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. Elections were held on the 8th in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa foe. Congressmen and State officers, and in West Virginia for Congressmen and members of the Legislature. In Ohio, in 1877, Bishop, Democrat, was elected Governor by a majority of 22,520. The State is now represented in the Lower Mouse of Congress by 8 Democrats and 13 Republicans; but the reapportioument of

the State last winter involved changes in nearly every district. In the last Indiana State election (1876), Wiliams, Democrat, was chosen Governor over Harrison, Republican, by 5,084 majority. The State is now represented in Congress by 4 Democrats and 9 Republicans. The Legislature chosen at the present election will elect a United States Senator for the full term, and one for the shortterm, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver P. Morton, now filled by D. ~W. Voorhees. Iowa, at its last election (1877), gave Gear, Republican, for Governor, a majority of 42,193, the Greenback candidate for Governor polling 34,228 votes. In the present contest the Democrats and Greenbackers were united. At present the entire Congressional delegation are Republicans. West Virginia has at present a soiid Democratic delegation in Congress. Returns from the Ohio election, received up to midnight of the 10th, indicated the election of the entire Republican State ticket by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. The Congressional delegation will probably stand 10 Democrats to 10 Republicans, as follows: First District, Butterworth, Republican; Second, Young, Republican; Third,' MacMahon, Democrat; Fourth, Keifer, Republican; Fifth, Lefevre, Democrat; Sixth, Hill, Democrat; Seventh, Hurd, Democrat; Eighth, Finley, Democrat; Ninth, Cojtseqpe, Democrat; Tenth Ewing, Democrat; Eleventh, Dickey, Democrat; Twelfth, Neal, Republican; Thirteenth, Van Vorhies, Republican; Fourteenth, Atherton, Democrat; Fifteenth, Geddes,. Democrat; Sixteenth, McKinley, Republican; Seventeenth, Monroe., Repubteenth, ffgg*Iraff. liepi Indiana has elected the- Democratic State ticket by from 10,000 to12,000 majority. The Congressional delegation will stand—Democrats 6, Republicans 6, Nationals l,as follows: First District, Heilman, Republican; Second, Cobb, Democrat; Third, Biekneil, Democrat; Fourth, New, Democrat; Fifth, Bfowne, Republican; Sixth, Myers, Democrat; Seventh, De La Matyr, National; Eighth, Hostetter, Democrat; Ninth, Orth, Republican; Tenth, Calkins, Republican; Twelfth, Coleriek, Democrat; Thirteenth, Baker, Republican. The Democrats have a majority of probably about (von joint bailot in-the Legislature. i Iowa elects the Republican State ticket by some 10,000 majority, and probably all the Republican Congressmen, although the Sixth and Seventh Districts were close and elaimed by the opposition. Returns from West Virginia are meager but indicate that the Democrats have elected the entire Congressional delegation by somewhat reduced majorities.

A Broken Heart. A man is said tube “red” or “white” with rage. In using; these expressions we are physiologically speaking of the nervous condition of the minute circulation of the man’s blood. “Bed” rage means partial paralysis of minute bloodvessels; and “white” rage means temporary suspension of the action of the circulation itself. But such disturbances can not be produced without the occurrence of permanent organic evils ol the vital organsrfespecWly of the heart and brain. (Jne striking example is given hv Dr. Richardson, in the case of a member o|rins own profession. This gentlemaiTfold me that an original irritability df temper was permitted, by want of the control, to pass into a disposition of almost persistent or chronic anger, so that every trifle in his way was a causeTof unwarrantable irritation. SometimeSAiis anger was so vehement that all about him were alarmed for him even more than for themselves; and when the attack was over there were hours of sorrow and regret in private which were not as exhausting as the previous rrge. In the midst of one of these outbreaks of short, severe madness he suddenly felt, to use his own expression, as if his “heart were lost.” He reeled under the impression, was

nauseated and faint; then recovering, he put his hand to his wrist and discoved an intermittent action of liis heart as the cause of his faintness. He never completely rallied trom that shock, and to the day of death, 10 years later, he was never free from intermil tency. “I am broken-hearted,” he would say, “physically broken-hearted.” And so he was; but the knowledge of the broken heart temperedmarvelously his passion and saved him many years of a really useful life. He died ultimately from an acute ferbile disorder.—Chambers's JmrnaL Thx Chicago Times charges that the markets of that city are supplied with diseased pork. The “pick” of the hogs in the stock-yards there are shipped East alive or culled by the packers, the scrawny, injured and diseased being left to be bought up by the scalpers for home consumption. Any thing that Bthe gates 1' for the city ing thought for e' and a scathing efficiency of the Board of Hi the yard alive is disgustJews, of the Chiu Save*.—1 peck ripe tomatoes chopped fihe, strain the waiter all off; 1 cup chopped onions, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup mustard seed, 1 cup grated horse-rad-ish, 1 cup salt, 2 tablespoonfuls black pepper, 2 large red peppers chopped fine, 1 teaspoonful each of doves, mace, and cinnamon,3 piuts vinegar; mix together arid it is done. This is good.

THE INDIAN REVOLT. The Massacre in Decatur County, Kansas, . H*VS City, Kas., Oct. 4.—Twenty-five dead uodies were brought in last night to Buffalo Station, 60 miles west of here, the result of Tuesday's fight 10 miles north of Buffalo. Twenty of the deceased were cattle men, and entire s trangers to all who viewed them, while five were recognised as settlers. After killing their1 victims the Indians continued their course north, taking with them every horse and pony within a range SB miles. Thu band struck a stream called Prairie Dog, 40 miles north of the Kansas Pacific Road, killing the herders that were herding horses, and cattle, and settlers as-they came on to. them. Thirtythree dead bodies were found yesterday by ,i?SJ?ursuers *n Decatur County, in the PraWe Dog region. This was evidently the n'0jk of the last band that crossed the road on Tuesday last. No one has been able to learn the names of any of yesterday's dead. • dispatch regarding the savage work m Decatur County, says the depredations were found to be even worse and more sickeaing than at first reported^- The following are the names of the killed, ravished and woundecL Mr. Humphrey, of Illinois, and two sons killed, while another son will die from his wounds; Mr. Lanig and three sons killed, while the most shameful crimes were committed upon the persons of Mrs, Lanig and her three daughters, after whishlhe ladies were placed in one corner of the room and straw piled upon the dead bodies of the rather and brothers and set fire to. From ,this smoke and darkness the ladies Slade their escape, running eight miles without a stitch of clothing upon them. Mr. Smith was killed; Mr. Westfall and two sons killed and Mrs. Westfall dangerously wounded, but will recover; Mr. Felt, Mr. Abernathy, Mr, Tull, Mr, Evans and Mr, Kelly were all killed; Mr. Young died of his wounds. F. Walters of New York, and Mr. Wright of Illinois, are missing and supposed to be killed, Two young ladies were stripped of their eiothing and ravished in the most brutal manner by 13 of the red devils. The ladies were named Evans, late of Illinois; they will recover. Mr. Keifer, who wa3 wounded, will recover The bodies of eight children were found on the prairie Friday by a scout.

The Bed Cloud Revolt. Yakktojs, Dakota, Oct. 4.—Dr. James Irwin, agent of the Bed Cloud Indians, arrived to-day from the agency on his wav to Washington to interview the Secretary of the Interior and the PresidentTipon the' existing situation of affairs in connection with the Indians under his control-. His Indians, tired of waiting for the promised permis- ! sion from the Commissioner to move to the White Clay, have abandoned their agency on the Missouri Biver and have gone back into the country 100 miles, where they are in camp on Pass Creek. They sent back word from there that if their agent would proceed to Washington and represent their case to the Great Father they would await the result without making any further move until the result of his commission was known to them. It is this errand which takes Dr. Irwin to Washington. The disaffected Bed Cloud Indians number over 6,000 at this camp. On Pass Creek they hate been joined by many of Spotted Tail's renegades. Dr. Irwin has information which leads him to believe that the renegade Chyennes from the south are intending to join forces with his Indians on Pass Creek. Should this occur there is serious trouble ahead for the Black Hills and other frontier settlements. Thgse Indiana will soon be out of rations. There pounds «* the liver bank ?_~®**rfaey, awaiting transportation to the no teams to convey them. The enuraagtne1t traBSp*rt»tion outfit consists Winter is coming on, atrtT c°i®band of savagssjs loose upon the plains td (i^.,tuaic they miy choose. 'jLtieir agent has done his best to aYeitthtLgtaitgerous situational affairs, but has.beeoimahi'y' to accomplish more than Death of Colonel Lewis. ity, Kag., October 6.—The foliils of the battle in which Colonel killed are from a participant: is, after crossing the railroad, rapidly to a point, where the fight '■ at Famished Woman’s Fork, 45 ■m Fort Wallace, and there upon he canyon threw up rifle-pits. This laid to draw the soldiers to a point , ._iere could be no retreat and open fire on 5 hero from all sides. They led m blind trail, and the troops, suspecting nothing, entered the canyon, and but for a glimpse of danger by scouts would havefallen into the trap. Seeing the failure of their plans, the Indians at once opened fire upon the head of the column. The troops very soon took possession of the adjoining hills and succeeded in driving the Indians from several pits, and while running from pit to pit were shot by soldiers, but their bodies, were dragged in by their friends. Colonel Lewis displayed rare courage and remained on his horse, the finest mark on the field. After dismounting, he moved about directing the fire of the troops, until a ball in the right ileg severed the main artery and brought him down. , The Military Situation. .Omaha, Neb., October 7.—It is learned by dispute lies here, to-day, from Big Springs, on the Union Pacific, that Thornburg’s command was 30 miles north of that paint on Sunday, camping without wood or water. Ponies were lound, left by the Indians, still wet with perspiration. Rifle-pits were found at camping points, snowing a civilized method of warfare. Trails are diverging in every direction over a wide extent of country. The Indians undoubtedly crossed Red Cloud and Spotted Tail’s trail. Carlton's command is still between Bed Cloud Agency and the Cheyennes. Bradley’s infantry, under Capt. Munson, stopped at thefChugwater. Merritt, with the 5th Cavalry, is at Laramie. It is considered improbable here, that the Cheyenres will be overtaken. A prominent citizen, irrived to-day from Camp Brown, Northern Wyoming, says 150 Arapahoes and fifty Cheyennes have left the reservation there in tbe past two weeks, on the pretense of huntitg, and not returning, it is believed have gone on the war-path. They are all good warriors, and informed of recent movements. A general understanding is evident among the Indians.

LATER FROM THORNBURGH AMD CABLETON. Omaha, Oct. 8.—4 dispatch received here from Thornburgh says the Indians have scattered. Cnpt. 3Uuch was 40 miles behind the Indians. A Sidney, Nebraska, dispatch of yesterday s: “ A courier from Carlaton’s command says: “Acow _ on Snake Crock arrived here at 6 p. m. and reports that Carleton’s advance discovered the advance scouts Of the Cheyennes on the night at the 3d, 35 miles southeast of Snake Creek S Mon. If not discovered by the Cheyennes,Carleton would engage them next day ” .OS. ; -• The ily Dispersed. CAMEjlg»HJSON, N*v., Oct., 10.—James Baker, a ranchman, living between Snake Creek and Running Water, on the Sidney Road, arrived''here at noon to-day, and states that 37 Indians passed within 600 yards of hi» ranch last evening, on their way nortli. A courier, just arrived from Carleton’s command, on the Niobrata River, reports that Carleton, up to the present time, has not seen any Indians—not even their trail. The Indians are supposed to have scattered on reaching the sand hills some miles east of the Niobrara River. Vi. A dispatch from Coi. O’Brien, at the forks of Clay and Wolf Creeks, says: “Bed Cloud and some of his principal chiefs Joined me to-day.” A iocng clergyman, whose maiden sisters were opposed to wedlock, kieked over ti e traces and got married. He sent a friend to break the news gently to tiie girls, with instructions to open the negotiations by saying that he was dead, and then gradually to work up to the re*l fact. Angel Puddings.—f ounces of flour, i ounces of powdered sugar, 2 ounces if butter melted ini a pint of new milk, I eggs, leaving out 1 white; mix rod b*ke 4 an hour in saucers, Turn them out into a dish, and serve hot with iweetMue*. ,j-.i •*

IfENERAL SHIELDS. The Old Veteran Makes a Characteristic Speech in Which He Pays His Respects to Mis Republican Friends. Xenarts at the Highland Borne, Cincinnati, Oct. , 1, lStA I nave come here to-night to take a lasting -2T® °* F°u ^or the present. 1 leave your £**F tutuerrow to goto thy handsome home for a little restt I thought it my-duty before L“£T® *g asy “ words to my triends of Cincinnati. 1 speak in a very quiet way. I kave no strength to speak otherwise to-night. Yon will hear me Very‘patiently, I khow, because I have seen enough of the people of your city to say here to-night, that of all the audiences I have ever addresssd I think the most quiet, sober and appreciative are the audiences of Cincinnati, (Applause.) I will not go into nor dispate questions here tonight, on account of my weak state Of health. At the close ofthe last war there was agreat work te> be done in this country—a work o' peace; not a work of war, but a work for every honest man to perform. It was a work of retrenchment, a work of economy, a work to repair our damages, to rebuild broken for tunes, to stop leaks, to economize and regulate the condition of affairs in this great country, to pay for the terrible exigencies of that war. This work has been done in every country—that is, after wars. It was done in trance myou know.a few years ago. No natlle human history has ever conducted affairs as they were conducted at the close of our.war. Instead of economy and retrenchment by the Republican party,we have bad every kind of jobbery and rings going on, and now these men want to continue to rule| for fourqr eight years more, Instead of jet^^'ingj.fhey wens on with their system CH HAS NO PARALLEL In human history. (Applause.) Instead of economy and resorting to good government, they increased their own salaries, They stole the lands which were for the actual settlers, which Were put into their hands asd'sacred trust. They handed thenr-over—fo railroad rings. The temptation was too great for them, They handed aol these lands over to the Credit Mobilier Ring, all these schemes and eontrivancies tor speculation. These lands were taken from the people ol the L cited States (applausepUud now these same men come before the American poopie and say there was no extravagancy. Some of these men were engaged In big enterprises, Whobuilt your railroads? who; made the rat fronds'- The Republican party xwho gave away the land to railroad lobbyists. (Applause.) I call upon Republicans as well as Democrats, for they are as mueh interested in these schemes as the Democracy. There was a wand organization called rings, and by speb\ ition and extravagance THESE Rlxi have brought about the timds which we how see all o ver the country. J There was the White House Ring, the little Babcock Ring (applause), the Washington Ring, which was headed by that famous Shepherd (applause), and then there was a Congressional Ring that those famous statesmen who were down South were at the head of. (Applause.) There was a Whisky Ring, a crookaF ring, God knows, and they were all crocked enough. (Laughter.) There was a Custom-house Ring; there were the Indian Rings, the most famous rings of them ail. I say this to-night, for I have some little knowledge of the Indian. Hived among the Indians. I speak their language ;.and I say these rings robbed the United States Treasury by unposing thousands of pounds of rations where there were not ten, and then cheating in other ways besides, and by these rings they sacrificed the soldiers and citizens of the United States (applause), and there was my old friend Custer (loud and Continued applause) a brave man. I have fought in the same field with that old, brave hero. (Applause.) All these rings have been going on in the Republican party, and’the men at the head of that party are at v / • THE HEAD OF THESE RINGS, and now they come around and before the American people; they come to Cincinnati, they come to Ohio, and challenge the Dei cratic party that they are the ones te bia. The Democratic party had no more to with this evil than you have to-night. Wi_ all this was going on, my friends, mark the condition the eonntrv has been bronvht to. condition the country has been brought to. Do yon wonder that France—a natio t that We have looked upon as not fit for liberty— is the wisest nation In the world? That they have paid the debt of their country,which was brought about with their War with Germany, Why nave they paid their debt? , -Because that/was inters; because he gathermi nonest meiSr around him; because they commenced the system of economy and retrenchment ; because whena Government commences such a system it looks as if it was commenced at the head of a great family who intended to economize and retrench in every department and i>ay their debt honestly. (Applause.) Whit can you expect from a Government whi ;h has such lings as ours? NOTHING BUT BANKRUPTCY and failures. One man can not trust another; they lose confidence in one another. Why, I recollect the time when I could cross the prairies of Illinois with all the little moi .ey I had in the world. It would not pay the national debt, but it was all I had. (La igbter.) I could throw it across my saddle ind it would be as safe as if I was down here in the Grand Hotel to-night. That is not tong ago. I was just as safe with that money in my saddle-bag as I would be with all t he police in Cincinnati around me. Look all over the country to-day filled with crime. I tell you, my friends, I hold these men, ang history will hold them, responsibly forUie demoralization ot the political trod social condition of the United States of America, (Loud and continued applause.)

N»w, in regard to tfie resumption of specie payiients. When you talk about greenbacks they say you are old fogies (laughter) ;you are not loyal when yon are a little critical in regard to the Vnited States Treasury. Now, this question of gold. I heard my friend Blackburn, the tftharmght, say silrerhaddepreciated 10 per-cent. There is some truth in that. I tell you what; the fact is gold depreciated, and is depreciating every day. Now, I want to tell you here in Cincinnati tonight, yon get this from an old man whg.has had a good deal to do with mines. It is a mincralogieal question, not apolitical question, that the gold is a metal. As a mineral it is growing scarcer every year. We are told that when gold is found it is plenty; it is washed down In the brook and river. The negroes and Chinamen can wash it up. 1 have been in the gold mountains—worked In them. I have been to the gold mines of South America I have talked with the old miners in that country about gold,and they say and I say that in 90 years all the gold mines on the face of the globe will have run out. I told the miners in South America we were going Jo resume specie paymants in gold. They said, “Where, in God’s name, will you get it?” (Laughter.) 1 tell yon here to-night, I believe- this is a trick gotten up over in London, and is approved of by our Republican leaders, who are going to resume specie payments in 1870. The capitalists of London know these facts about gold diminishing all over the world. 1 am no prophet, but I say if the Republicans carry out their intentions it will bring on terrible distress in this country. My friends, 1 do not want to detain you much longer. I have a little personal matter which 1 wish to explain I do not like to speak of any thing that is personal to myself. But this has been forced upon me. The Republicans have been extremely kind to me, as well as the Democrats of Cincinnati. I do not wonder that they have. My best friends, or a portion of them who fonght with me, were Republicans. But there is a Republican paper that’s also very kind. It says: “Poor old General Shields won’t be able to save Mil

ton i-ayier." tL,augnier.j Well, now, I suppose It meant this in a quiet way. I do not consider it complimentary. What is more, 1 hope it will not astonish the Gazette when I say X am not ashamed of my poverty. (Loud and continued applause.) 1 AS A POOR MAN. I have not made millions out of the hardworking people of the United States as the Republicans have done by their schemes. (Applause.) That I am old it is true. I wish it were otherwise. (Laughter.) 1 am sorry I am not thirty or forty years younger; so I could give the Republicans a good turn over. (Applause.) Not that I come here to save Milton Sailer or any other man; it is a lie (applausejshecause he did not vote for me, X have said fend done a great many things in my life; some of them may have been foolish. Iam on my way home, and am going home to-morrow; but I came here to-night to explain this matter. I am poor, though not exactly starring. I have a little land. Well, while I was in New England Benjamin F. Butler Introduced a bill to make me doorkeeper of the Honse of Representatives. I suppose Mr. Butler was honest about the mat ter. I knew nothing of the matter at the time. I knew nothing of it till it was all over, My friends from Illinois said, “No. What! make General Shields Doorkeeper ? No, we will never do that.” But I had a bill introduced in the Honse to make me a BtKUhJkt-SEmili of the United States, and pot on the retired Ust. (Applause.) I do not think Ben Butler meant any harm when he proposed my name, but my old friends from Illinois said: “No; Gen. Shields shall never be Doorkeeper. ’ And these were Republicans, and they were good, old, honest friends of mine. They said: “What! General Shields? The man who represented two States In the Senate of the United States—Missouri and Minnesota— which were represented by such Webster! No, we will never allow him to be a Doorkeeper!” (fond applause.) But they said, “General Shields wants and General Shields deserves what we will make him, Brigadier-General, and put him on the reDllKaUlUl -VJUUUIOI, MIU tired list for the balance of his life.” (Applanse.) And your worthy and honorable representative here from Ohio, who was here before you to-night, instead of making me Doorkeeper, voted to to make me a Briga-dier-General of the United States, and that man was Milton Sayler, (Loud applause.) Yes, he voted to make me a Brigadier-Gen-I «ml and pul in* oi» Jfc* rnttoed UW. Wr (

friimd Sutler barcUy ever knew me before. (Laughter.) I have said a great many things ah°uc him, Sind probably he wanted to reward iue by appointing me Doorkeeper. (Laughter.) The resolution! to make me Brigadier General was killed in the ttepnblican Senate. Nowa these men want to make political capital oct or IT. My friends, I eomc before you to-night, and I want those gentlemen to put down every word for history’s sake, for the Gazette’s sake, and tor the sake of jujltiee, that if the House of Representatives elected me Doorkeeper I would not have accepted. (Applause.) No, poor old Gener al Shields is too proud for that.' The position is honorable enough; the work is honorable; but it is not my habit of life-r it is not conformable to the life I have led heretofore. (Applause.) i ask, and I deserve it, to be put back in the army, and then for the balance of my life put me on the retired hst. (Loud applause.) In the House the Democrats and Hepubiie»n3 united mo* port of my bill to be made Brigadier-GfeuiZmlv But that Republican Senatesaid,“No. We will make a man (who is now in Europe) Briga-dier-General of the United States." That man is L. S. Grant. I say to-night what I would not naye said before, duly f am provoked to doit. I am not complaifong. 1 NEVEK COJtFUiy. I am too proud to complain. (Applause.) L who was in the Seriate with Henry Clav, Thomas Benton aed Stephen A. Douglas, my old friends—mpn who were the greatest that ever were in any legislative hall, t say again, I never would have accepted the" position of Doorkeeper. Why, my‘Illinois friends, my ^ Indiana friends and Ohio friends said: ^ Never will that grand old hero, General James Shields, be Doorkeeper, but we will make him Brigadier-General of the United .gtatesi* (Loud applause.) ^Perhaps, my ••'ends, I did not make much aT^iinction lor myself in the Senate, yet I leftaio stain upon the record oi that body (applause); left no stam upon the reputation of any State I represented. (Applause.) I have fought in two wars. 1 have followed that glorious old ftag in many a hard-fought battle. I say here to--night, I have never left any stain upon that glorious banner, except the stain of my blood. (Loud and continued Cheers.) I am now an old man, 68 years of ,age.. I have four wounds on my body, some received in the Ateaican war, and one great wound ip tlm last war. Had not the House of Representatives the right to make me a Brigadier General (A voice— l es,M) and not. Doorkeeper? I have sat in the Senate of the United States. 1 have more wounds on my body and did more fighting than any man put on the retired list (applause). and yet, to my astouishment and amazement, and to my disappointment, that euate, far ftom folhple which was set Republican party in t_ lowing the glorious y&a: by the House of Representatives, refused to ttUpw my name to /go on the retired list of officers; that Senate which I supposed would make me a Brigadier General without hesitating, and \vber£ I myself sat, refused to make me Brigadier-Generali but put instead Gen. Grant. But no; they said they would make Gen. Shields Doorkeeper* Ah, my friends, iic I am poor, I am too protid to accept the honorable position of Doorkeeper from a Republican Senate. (Applause.) Now these men tell you the Democratic candidate. Milton Sayler, did not vote for me. Ahf Mr. Sayler did more than vote for me; he fought to get me Brigadier-General—what 1. asked for, and was entitled to-?whieU the Republicans xefused to gfaat. They say the DemociKts destroyed me. Oh, no; it was she Republicans who destroyed me. I never said this in my life before, Pni truth demands it, justice demands it. The Republicans could not beat me fairly by fair treatihehc. They have resorted to this impractical way of bentiog a Uuiou soldier, not because I was an irishman—mo, my Irish friends, not at all; not a bit of it)-but- because 1 happened to be a Democrat. -That was it. (Applause.) Nowf I want these gentlemen (reporters) to put it down. 1 will stand by it anywhere. I am going to help to make a President (applause), and we will make him in spite of Mrs. Jentes, of the Horse Marines (laughter), and all the visiting statesmen who went to Louisiana. I will prophesy to-night, my friends, and I will risk a*y reputation on if* after Mr. ilayes*s term is out you will not 8ee a Republican President for some time. (Apprise.) iotzoc tc‘ triulce these few remarks. I thunk you sincerely for the atffcifM* tion you have gbron me. I have done this, because it is a duty I owe to you. I know there are brave s ddiers here to-night )who have fought aroesid who-would not see can story aftoat Hon. Milton Saylor’s action towant me.-tor lac Chi ali lie eouiit to make me what I am entitled to. Now. my trie mis, until I am pat on the retired list i am in active service, anil will bttin active service nutil I am put on that list. Will you help me to doit? {Voices," Yes, we will.”) AU right, then. New, before I close, I Want to say:; I did Dot come here to save Htin. Milton bayy ier, tor he is already saved. (Applause:) Bn* it was my d uty to the Democrats, and 1 wait to put the Republicans where they belong. I I will net take farewell of you, not forever, for I shall soon. be back to see tun again. I thank you; (Load applause.) How the French Have Elevated Extortion to a Fine Art. A fatally of friends of mine, says a London letter in. the San Francisco Gull, have just been though the mili in Paris. The gentleman is a prominent official in New York State Government, and in any well regulated country is pretty competent to manage his own business. But Paris ways beat him, he says. He has been made to pay thousands of francs damages for injuriesto the apartments wniefa he oceupiair a couple df months—injuries whieh any unprejudiced observer can see have been the work oi years in the rooms and a long succession of untidy lodgers. He and his wife and two grown sons—all very neat people—are charged with having made grease oceans with their heads upon the wall papers and paint of the different rooms, one of whieh they never occupied at all—never sat down for a moment there, there being more than enough rooms without it. And the sums they have had to pay for repairs are so large that for many months to come their income will be terribly crippled, as they are not rich people. Naturally they don't take such a raptuous enjoyment out of the Exposition, the salon, the theaters and the other attractions of Paris as they might if they’d

naa eomiort mind there. The last t tne i.uu ib sintc ui ck I have heard of to screw a final penny out of departing strangers is to send a smalt boy or a small girl with a sympathetic appearance to the train just as it is starting, with a claim of a few francs, as few sometimes as three or four, say 60 or 80 cents, saying that a little bit of washing has not been paid for, or you forgot that the garcon bought a few papers for you (or something) and was never paid for that. With the full knowledge that you have paid an enormous price for every thing, and have Coo landlord’s receipted bill For & frightful figure in yonr pocket, and that you have stood the squeeze of “drink-money”.to every hound about the establishment besides, you are of course indignant, and say you will not pay one centime more to any living soul. Then the sympathetic messenger begins to whine, and says he was sent to get this by the landlord, and, if you don’t pay it, he will be forced to out of his poor earnings. All this makes yon the more furions, for vou see, and have seen from the first, that the thing is a deliberate fraud on the part of the landlord, and that the messenger is honest enough about it, and knows nothing except that he has been informed, on pain of dismissal, to bring back that money. The disagreement makes a row, of course, and the first you know same police officer is on the scene, who gives you the alternative of leaving the train at onee in his custody, with your whole party and your baggage, or paying instantly whatever sum is demanded. It is no use for you to show him your receipted bill for more money, probably, than he ever saw; the particular item is not on your bill (why should it be?). You have got no receipt for it (why should you have?), so of coarse you owe it! Furious as4 this false and ridiculous reasoning makes you, you still see that the cheapest wav is to pay the potty demand, and as that was the only thina veer screw was after, you are alio wet to bustle on the train again, breathlea sad angry, just as it is off, and all (hi mm <wd taken,

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Ant man pays too much for his whistle who has to wet it fifteen or twenty times a day. A young lady hesitating for a word in describing the character of a rejected snitor, said, “He is not a tyrant, not exactly domineering, but—” “Qpfcmatic,” suggested her friend. “No/he : has not dignity enough for that; I think pupmatic would convey my meaning > admirably.’’ „ , . / The editor of the Marshall (Iowa) ^Statesman says that, after considering ith&questibn all winter, he comes to the .conclusion every spring that the circusis immoral; but theu the bill-poster " comes along with the big pictures, and his mind Changes as follows: As we gi^e at the lions, tigers, and monkeys, ahd think that nature made, all Of them, we are not sp sure. And when we look « at the beautiful young lady, with nothing on but a blue ribbon round her _waist, with one-leg pointing to six <, j>’clock and the other to high noon, and think that nature made her, too, just as she was, except the ribbon, we begin to lean up to the circus. But wheu tbe brass band begins to play and the elephants go. round, we rush for a front seat to get in ahead of the ministers, who always wear stove-pipe hats and won’t sit down in front* Out in Belleville they started a hotel the other day and as a matter of cenrse it was necessary to number the rooms. ' There was not a painter«in the town and not so much as a piece of chalk could be found around the house. At last a happy idea possessed the /-kktfulord. Taking a pack of cards- and i paper of tacks he began with theacuand con tin ued up to the king, nnmbertpgThe doors in a novel and entirely original manner. If it ever becomes necessary to make additional numbers for extra rooms the suit may be changed, and so continued up to fifty-twqjuby which time a painter may be imported for the purpose of extending the figures. Untilthen the clerks will be compelled to _ speak of “the man in No. trey of hearts,” or “ the lady in No. deuce of clubs.” Necessity is- the mother of invention.—Qokl Hill Hews. “ Thomas,” cried a Townsend Street woman to her husband, as she let him .n at the front door, at twirk m., the other morning, “ where have Wou been until this unearthly hour, ana why do you come home with your breath smeili g of beer?” “That’s all right,” remarked Thomas, as he leaned up against the wall and tried to look sober. “That's all right, ’Melia. Funniest thing eversr/- iu my life, by (hie) Jove.” “What, is . ” snapped the Townsend Street wcJ aSaa. “Tel—(hie)—telephone,” said Thomas, with an imbecile smile. “How do vou make out,” demanded the worn A, in icy tonss^Hth*! working with the telephone would make your breath, smell of beerjr “Easiest thing iu the world,” returned Thomas, as be stcrafitsd htn**®1# ix it®- etratair, very simple; man at the up s’airs, chuckling at the ' lag bis wife.—New Qi * " COSVU.EXCI! cosmwai-* . , - . iwis Said Mrs. Brown, | “ Whetnyou go down town. My dear, forgetful spouse. You won't forget To go and get A load of kindling wood for the huustsJ”^. A deception. 4 “ You are so good, - • "To think of the wood. For yon opened-yonr dreaming tip In your sleep last night. And said outright. I’ll take auotkerdoUar’s worth of chips.’*

Resolutions Adopted by the Miss ur£ Republican State tonveatio*. we, the KepublieansBof Missouri, iu convention assembled, resmVe: 1. That the Republican 'party, inspired by its past history ami achievements, renews ts allegiance to the high principles which have guided it tlujSTSr; and having saved the nation’s existence, it now pledges itself to fulfill all the promises made when assaulted 1 3 treason and re bullion, to the end thatthe n, - : tion’s honor be preserved. i. That the bonds of the United States and legal-tender notes issued under the necessities of the rebellion are sacred debts of the nation, to be paid to the last dollar in the universally recognized standard money of the world; thatthe only money reeogmzed in the business exchanges of the world Sa, gold and silver coin, of the weight and fineness which give it universal currency; and we demand that all our currency shall at all times be convertible into coin at the will of the holder, ami that coin and currency shall be at par with the gold standard of the world * We declare that the interests, of labor and capital are so linked together that all action hostile to the one mast be Injurious to the other, and we condemn all attempts to array one against the other as tending to establish enmities and prejudices between the, employer and the employed. -> 4 IVe demand full protection of all citizens of every race and color, in every part of the United States, in the free exercise and enjoyment of fill constitutional and legal, civil and political privileges. We insist and demand that there shall never be any payment, directly or indirectly, of what .re called rebel claims, and we demand legitimate expenses of,the Government shall be met — fiirly and honestly by timely and adequate/ N appropriations. _._ / \

constant disturber of public tranquility!and confidence, as the wanton foe of pubtilvsecurlty, as constantly attempting t<» weaken the power and authority of the nation by crippling the army iu tune of uncertainly and danger. We call attention to the fact that it is dependent upon a “ soUd South,” and is thereby at all times subservient to all Its sectional demands; that It has never ceased to aggravate the troubles Of the country by mischievous agitation throughout the entire period otttfc supremacy in the House of Representatives. We arraign it asfaithless to the obligations ot the national honor and as the ehief supporfeof the wiild schemes of inflation, repudiation anth-utter financial disorder, which imperil jfcWto credit and business security; end we behove and declare that its f untie or greater success would be a national calamity. 6. We particularly arraign the Democratic party of Missouri as responsible for a criminal disregard of the Constitution of the State, whereby over half a million dollars of money which had been collected nudpaid Into the Treasury of the State, have been stolen and lost, and which the people of the State must be again taxed to make good, ft Is our belief that since that party came into power it has maintained and supported a rmg of public plunderers, who have subsisted and Fattened upon the revenue paid by the people, and it has, so far, made no efforts to punish them. And while We would leave all questions of paying municipal debts to the Courts and to the people interested, we charge the Democracy of this State with tho covert design of attacking the national authority, in Its judiciary department, and encouraging the doctrine of nulhttcation, under the specious pretense of protecting the rights of a people whom its own trusted officers are engaged at the time In robbing. 7. We favor a liberal system, of free and 9trictly secular education lor all tb s children of the State. ■ ^ .. v S. We are opposed to any repeal or modification of the Resumption act, whereby its efficiency will be in the least impaired. We believe that the era of “ bard times ” is rapidly passing away, and a period of national and individual prosperity is beginning to dawn upon the country; and for this promised return of better times we feel indebted to the firmness, honesty and purity of tho present Administration of the .'National Goveminent. , , #. An emergency in the history ot tho conn - try, second only to the great struggle to overthrow the rebellion, now confronts us. As then, the Republican party was the sole organized political protection against national disruption, and patriotic citizens, of whatev er party names, rallied under its standard, in defense of the Union; so now, the Repub lican organization is the only uffie* walk against national repudiation grace, and it again invites all good of whatever previous political ties, to 1 wtth it in preservingthe national hono all Republicans this great exigency espee appeals to rise to its high obligations. Join heart and band for the ttfnmph of * ; principles upon whi upon which the security and depend