Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 August 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Th* Connecticut Republican State Convention nominated for Governor Mayor Bigelow, of New Haven. Adelaide Neilson, the great actress, :l died suddenly in Paris on the 15th, The Democratic campaign in Indiana was opened on the 14th, with over two hundred meetings in various parts of the State. The Secretary of the National Prohibition Committee asserts that the Prohibitory party will put an electoral ticket before the voters of twenty States. Gen. Green B. Raum, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is making campaign speeches in Maine. Ex-Gov. Hersciiel V. Johnson, of Georgia, died on the leth, at his residence in Jefferson County, aged 88. Miss Neilson’s sudden death, as ascertained by a post-mortem examination,’ was caused by dropsy of the heart, accelerated by extreme indigestion^ Miss Neils.on was driving in the Bois de Boulogne, when she was seized with sudden illness, and was conveyed to the nearest restaurant, where she expired. Her remains will be buried in BromptouCemetery, London. Senator Conklin^, it is said, is booked for several speeches in Ohio and Indiana. President Hates will go on a tour to the Pacific Coast, making several speeches en route. A National Convention of Republican Campaign Clubs has been called to meet at Indianapolis on the 15th of September, caujAorganization being entitled to one delegam Representative Blackburn has been renominated by the Democrats of tbe Seventh Kentucky Congressional District, and Representative Caldwell has also received a renomination in the Third District, Kentucky; The Connecticut Democratic State Convention, held on the 18th, nominated lion. .James E. English . for Governor; Charles M. Pond, of’Hartford, for Lieut. - Governor; S. S. Blake for Secretary of State; Merrick A. Mercy for Treasurer, and Charles R. Fagan for ’Comptroller. Gov. English ' has signified his acceptance of the nomination.

The New Jersey Republican State Convention nominated Frederick A. Potts for Governor. The New York Greenback State Convention, held at Syracuse on the 18th, nominated a ticket of Presidential Electors and also of State officers. Ole Bull, tfoe famous violinist, has has Just died at Bergen, ♦forway. Representative John F. Phillips has been renominated by the Democrats of i the Seventh Missouri District. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Reports received at the Department of Agriculture at Washington show that the condition of the cotton crop throughout the Southern Slates is unusually good, and an ' unprecedented yield is predicted. The black * ,-iawtlMts appeared. however,.in ^rtaHj see- * fTofes oT Georgia, add it is believed that the crop in that State will not reach the average. * The Chinese Minister at Washington has given notice that his Government has, by official decree, removed the ancient restrictions on commerce, and ;that the Celestialrmay hereafter trade with foreigners at will. According to careful estimates of the Boston Advertiser, by the nefv census the 'Northern States will have a population of 30,763,820, and the Southern States, 17,692,331. The average rate of growth of the two regions is almost identical; that of the South is slightly more than twenty-eight per centum, that of the North slightly below twenty-seven per centum. Cincinnati is dissatisfied with its uensus returns, and the poliee will make a new enumeration of three districts in order to determine what further action shall be taken. i_ Thomas McGraw, one of thef most prominent business men of Detroit, Mich., ■President of the Michigan Savings Bank anil also of the Globe Tobaeeo Company, has made an assignment. Unfortunate real ■estate investments and speculations in wool are the cause of his troubles. A movement has been set on foot for (educing immigration to West Tennessee. A society has been organized at Memphis, under the auspices of the State Bureau of Immigration. Pleuro-pneumonia is prevailing among the cattle in Lancashire, England. The harvests in both East , and- West Prussia have been almost totally destroyed by floods. It has rained incessantly for nearly three weeks in some localities.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Robert Wilkes, wholesale jeweler, ol Toronto, his daughter, Florence, aged fifteen, and son, Bertie, aged eleven, were drowned at Sturgeon Point on the 16th. Florence and Bertie were bathing, and the boy getting beyond his depth, the father, who was in a boat, jumped out to save him; the daughter also went to the rescue, and all were drowned. John C. Taylor, Secretary of the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of Western Massachusetts, and his wife were drowned in the Connecticut River at Springfield on the loth. Mrs. Teylor leaped from the boat in which were her1 husband and two other women. He sprang after her, and being unable to swim, both were lost. Bill Rodieer, a notorious burglar, recently pardoned out of the Indiana Penitentiary on account of good conduct, was shot and hilled on the morning of the l~th by J. C. Walker, a son of Dr. Walker, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Walker being awakened by a noise during the night, got up and turned on the gas, which was burning low, and while doing so noticed, a man underneath the Doctor’s bed. Without awakening her husband or manifesting any alarm, she quietly went into an adjoining room and aroused her son, who seized a revolver, and came u]>on the scene just as the burglar was making his exit, with a drawn knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, with the latter of which he had fired one shot at the Doctor, who had awakened during his wife’s absence and discovered the burglar’s presence. Young Walker fired twice at the man, both shots taking effect in his breast. Rodifer managed to get down stairs, but fell dead just as he reached the threshold. Dr. John Buchanan, Dean of the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, under indictment for fraudulently issuing medical diplomas, J limped from a ferryboat into the river and drowned himself, on the 17th. \ At Bunker Hill, ,St. Clair County, . ill., on the l«th, Henry Cardwell, ajminor, shot his wife through the head with a shotgun as she lay asleep, and then cut his throat with a razor. Both were dead when found, , and as there was probably uo witness to the ' tragedy, it is only upon strong circumstantial evidence that the theory of murder and suicide was established. * Cardwell and wife were both middle-aged, with a fata

fiy of grown-up children, none of whom lived at home. He was of intemperate and improvident habits, and had been unusually depressed for some months past on acoount of one of hig sons having become insane. Twenty persons were killed by a land-slide at Vieuxport, near Poitiers, France, which crushed in two houses. General Bryan Grimes, a well known citizen of North Carolina, was assassinated near his home la Pitt County by some person unknown. He was shot dead while driving along the road. During a drunken carousal at the house of John Kelleher, in Oakland, Cal., the house was set on fire and two of his children were burned to death and a third was fatally injured. Mrs. Kelleher and another woman, Mrs. King, were both badly burned, and Kelleher was slightly scorched, x While a circus procession was taking place at Winchester, Va., on the 10th, Andrew Drayton, the keeper of the hyenas, who was occupying the cage of those animals, was set upon by them and almost literally devoured before he could be rescued. His injuries were thought to be fatal. ^ The naked and terribly mutilated body o,f Mary Cassiday, aged ten years, was found in a brush heap in the woods near Barnstable, Mass., on the 18th. The head' was nearly severed from the body and in the child’s side was a large butcher-knife. The ground about bore evidence of the struggle of the little girl to freo herself from the villain who so fearfully assaulted and cruelly murdered her. Wadkins, a horse thief, was taken from the Jail at Fort Scott, Kansas, by a mob, and hanged to the limb of a tree. MlSCELLtANEOUS. The Cathedral- of Cologne is completed. Twenty-one persons have been tried by court-martial and convicted at Kief, Russia, for political offenses. Two were sentenced to death, three to twenty years’ imprisonment, and sixteen to hard labor for terms varying from ten to fifteen years. The Knight Templar procession in Chicago was about three hours in passing a given point, and it is estimated that nearly 20,000 uniformed Knights were iu line, in addition to a seore or more of bands, the whole presenting a seenc eft great splendor. The streets and buildings along the line <* march were handsomely decorated, and every available point of observation was occupied by a spectator. The city was thronged with guests from abroad, every hotel being crowd

ed to its utmost capacity. Eureka, Nevada, has had another disastrous fire, which swept over about the same ground as the fire of a year ago. A large number of business buildings and private residences were^destroyed. The losses Will aggregate nearly $1,000,000. A letter to the Iowa State Register from Mr. S. A. James, of Sigourney, gives the information, on the authority of an alleged eye-witness, that the notorious Bender family, four in number, were captured soon after the discovery of the murder of Col. York's brother, lie says thp four were stood up in a row, facing nine' riflemen. They were told their fate. Kate was plucky to the last. The four bodies were buried at the corner of the four counties of .Labette, Wilson, Neosho and Montgomery. appeare d in .Central New Yorkon the right of August 15, and at one place in Delaware County ice formed. Luke Blackburn won the one mile and a half race at Long Branch, on the 17th, In the unprecedented time of 2:34. The Ytteger Mill at St. Louis, the largest llouring mill in the city, was totally destroyed by tire on the night of the 17th. Total loss about $450,000; insurance, $285,000. An alleged plot to blow up Cork Barracks was discovered on the ISth. Two barrels of gunpowder were fouud secreted in the railway tunnel directly beneath the barracks. The troops were immediately put under arms, but no further developments were made. ‘ During a riot between Catholics and Orangemen at Dungannon, Ireland, on Sunday, the 15th, the police tirst used buckshot and then ball cartridges to disperse the crowd, who returned the tire with revolvers. Many persons were wounded. At Down Patrick the Catholics and Orangemen fought for several hours, a number on both sides being severely, wounded; and at Belfast a similar collision: occurred, two deaths resulting. A case of twenty rffl&s, shipped from Muford for Cork, was seized by the police. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Pope has announced the following American appointments: C. Manngup, Virginia City, Nevada, Bishop in partitmk, with future succession to Bishop O’Connell, Grass Valley, California; John A. AVattcr-. son, Bishop of Coluinbus, Ohio; Kev. Mr. Heiss, Bishop in partlbus, with succession to Archbishop Hennc, of Milwaukee; Kev. Portillo, Bishop ip partibus and Vicar Apostolic of Lower California. The bombard ment of Candahar began on the 19th. Cannonading was kept up during the entire day on three sides of the city, but without indicting any serious damage. A young man named Waldron was lynched by a mob in Spalding County, G'a., his offense being the desertion of his wife. and eloping with her twelve-year-old sister. A wedding party at Pam'esvi.lle, O., were poisoned at supper, evidently by some deleterious substance being mixed with the food. All who partook were seriously ill, some of them nigh to death, but ail will recover. Fke derigk Zimmerman, aged 40, and Jacob Yolmer, aged 14, were crushed to death l>y a descending elevator in the Sandusky {O.) Wheel-works. The accident was caused by a broken cable. Several persons on the elevator were injured, but none severely. The Democratic Convention of the Ninth Illinois District nominated Hon. John S. Lee for Congress. The Maine Temperance Society, in mass convention, nominated Joshua N. Osgood for Governor. A man named Marburger, a traveling salesman for the tobacco house of Abel Brothers, Denver, was found dead in a house of bad repute in that city on the morning of the 19th. There had been a quarrel the previous night, in which the keeper of the house, Carrie Smith, struck Marburger over the bead with a bottle, and a male friend of hers then clubbed him with a revolver. The murdered man leaves a wife and three children. ' ,■ At Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Elizabeth Benson, mother of Chief of Police Benson, who committed suicide in January last, on the 19th cut herlhroat and then jumped into a hogshead of water. When found she was dead. Joshua Ballard, City Marshal • oi Ennis, Texas, was shot and killed on the morning of _the 19th by S. B. Alexander, whom he had arrested and locked up for being drunk and disorderly on the previous night. Ueuuen Cakuthers, a colored cattle thief, was lynched near Jlrenham, Texas, on the night of the l£th.

WHAT BECA3JE OF THE BENDERS. A. True Account of How the Xotorton* Ren* den Were l>l»i»o«c<l of—Their Puraulq Capture and Death. A correspondent of the Chicago Times*-writing from ^Oswego, Lale.te County, Kan., in reference to the arrest of the McGregor tramps and their claim to be members of the murderous Bender family, says: u The Benders are dead. I speak thus decisively because I know whereof I speak. It is not customary lor one to boast of acts of lawlessness, and it is not in that spirit that I enter ppon the recital of the last chapter of the bloody career of the brutish Benders. “It is not necessary to go into a detailed account of the murders. In poinfc of fact, very little is actually known on that point, No one in the land of tho living will have the hardihood to say that he saw the deeds done, and the Benders themselves never made a confession that I know of. The McGregor liars were a little off in their description of the murders. They always had Kate, or Maggie, her cousin, or John, cutting the heads of the victims to pieces with hatchets, whereas they were invariably brained with a hammer and their throats cut. “ The Benders, John and his wife, and their two children, Kate and John, kept a wayside tavern about a mile and a half southeast of Morehead Station on the road leading from Independence to the Osage Mission. They were there when I moved into tho county two years before the discovery of tho butcheries, and wore well known then. Kate was a red-faced, low-browod, squarcrshouldered amazon, strong enough to throw a bull by the tail, and everybody stood lu awe of her. She made a pretense of practicing the healing art, and was known far and wide as a “spiritualistic doctor.** Her cures were permanent, and her remedy was a hammer. Decent people avoided the Bender tavern. As the country hereabouts harbored a good many desperadoes about this time, no one cared to raise a row, and the protest went ho further than avoidance. When search was instituted for the body of Dr. York, in April, 1873, suspicion was directed against the Benders, and contrary to tho general belief a close watch was kept on them for a while. They must have been aware of the surveillance, for at the first opportunity they decamped. The report that they took the train at Thayer, a station a few miles north of Cherryvale, and went to Humboldt, from which place they took Eaasage for Texas, is a mistake. They simply undlcd their goods into two wagons and startl'd for Indian Territory. They did not proceed at once to their destination, if? indeed, they had any destination marked out, but crossed over into Montgomery County, and squatted near Verdigris Kiver to await developments. The distance from their farm was something like twenty miles. John, Jr., or John, Sr., made daily trips back to the vicinity of Cherryvale and took observations. It was their intention to return if the excitement should blow over, but if it continned warm they would go on as originally planued. They knew of the discovery of their crime within an hour after the bodies were dug out of their shallow graves, and they lost no time in striking their tents. They struck out for the west bank of the river and started, south ward post haste. Their fiigbt soou became a panic, and to add to their discomfiture one of their wagons broke down, picking what they coiild of the load on their horses they piled up what was left, set fire to it, and hurried on. “in the meantime a vigilance committee had been formed. This move was taken with the greatest secrecy, and none but trustv mon were admitted to the organization. The utmost circumspection was used, for the reason that in a new community like this the doubtful assistance of suspicious characters was a thing to bo dreaded. The vigilante3 did not number more than one hundred meat all told, but they meant business, as the sequel proved. It was my good or bad fortune to be one of the elect. Scouts were sent out in all directions, and within lorty-eight hours of the departure of the Benders from their camp in tho next county, the fact wag duly reported to us.

•4 About forty of us organized iuto a pursuing party and started after the butchers. Once on their trail, we had no difficulty in following it. The murderous ouartet had taken to the open country west ot the river, but were keeping within convenient distance of the thick timber that grows in the valley watered by the stream. They were expecting pursuit, and hoped to escape by losing themselves in this timber if it came to the worst. As we proceeded the trail freshened* and ore long we came across the haf-eonsumed ruins of the wagon left by the Benders in their flight. From the direction they were taking, it became evident to the mind of those acquainted with the country that they were pointing for that paradise of cutthroats located near the mouth of the Red fork of the Arkansas. The country hereabouts is a bleak and desolate region, infested by horse-thieves, half-breed- Creeks, Pawnees and Cherokees. Once there they knew they would be safe from pursuit. Even the United States troops have never t>eeu able to penetrate that term incognito. it is a safe retreatfor the border ruffians, and is known to be such all through this section of the country. This haven for the wicked is distant about one hundred and forty miles from the point where the Verdigris River enters Indian Territory. The murderer's had about forty miles to travel before reaching the boundary of the Territory, and they were probably twenty miles beyond the line when our scouts caught sight of them. Burdened as they were with much cumbrous baggage, they had not been able to make very great speed, but they used every possible effort to put space behind them. It was about three o'clock on a hot, sultry May afternoon that we came in sight of the party. They saw us as soon as we came from cover, and abandoning everything they broke for the forest. They plunged into the woods and scattered. We were close upon theirheels, however, and they did not succeed in eluding us long. The old man and his wife and Kate were under an est in less than an hour. John, Jr., was more fortunate than the other members of the tribe, for he contrived to evade us for an hour longer, but ho was at length run to cover and forced to surrender. “ Every one of them showed fight, but with the exception of Kate they all weakened when It, came to the scratch. This charming border beauty empt ied every chamber of her revolver into our faces, but her aim was bad and she did no serious damage beyond maiming one ol our horses and clipping a lock of hair from my temple. The bullet raised a ridge along the skin, the work of which shows to this day. she finally succumbed to superior strength, but to the last maintained the same dare-devil, reckless demeanor. 6

--Having captured tne assassins me question now arose, ‘What are we to do with them?" Some were tor taking them back and letting the law take its course.* The advocates of t his line of policy were largely in the minors ty. There were those amongst us whoso relatives had fallen victims tii the deadly hammers and knives of the wretches, and they would not listen to the suggestions of tho conservative element. They threatened to do some killing then and there if their demands for instant vengeance were not regarded. No one would hare offered a very strenuous opposition if they had carried out their threats, but it was thought best to do ithe job up alter the most approved form obtaining in the courts presided over by Judge Lynch. “The prisoners were accordingly arraigned and asked what they had to say in their defense. The old woman was sullen and ugly, but the two men showed signs of faltering. Had they been left to themselves, they would have made full confessions, beyond a doubt. The amiable Kate perceived this, and, thinking it would please tho vigilants too much to hear oonfessions, she fell to cursing her brother and falser for their cowardice. Fouler language was never uttered than came from the lips of this ttend. No term was too vile to apply to her relatives. They took it sullenly at first, but soon something of her reckless spirit infused them, and they too joined in the tirade. The chorus of blasphemy that went up from that hardened lot caused a shudder to run through ourparty. With death staring them in the face, they united in oursing us and lamenting their inability to do us harm. Such malignity 1 never saw equaled, Bren the old woman chipped in occasionally, and her appearance inchoated that she wholly upproved of the family demonstration. "Our court went through with the'form prescribed and then pronounced a sentelico of death. The announcement was received with jeers from the hardened criminals, who had determined to bravo It out to the Inst. It was decided that the murderers should be shot, as It would take too much time to hang them. The sun was already nearly down, and the shadows of approaching night were deepening. There on the borders of the forest the cruel killers were tied to saplings and told to prepare for death. One or our number, who bad not quite forgotten his early education, undertook to offer a prayer, but the lovely Kate spit In his face while he was addressing the throne of grace, and be quit right In the middle of a sentence and drew off In disgust. “The four died with curses on their lips, hardened and unrepentant to the last. There in that lonely, dismal spot, away beyond the confines of civilisation, they met a righteous retribution, and their souls, black with crime, were sent to meet the great Judge. A hole, made by the displacement of the roots of a fallen cottonwood, was made a little larger and deeper, and the bodies were thrown In and hastily covered with loose earth, rooks and brushwood. This was all there was to the funeral. “On reaohing the level again, the effects of the Benders were stacked and burned <fo a sort Of an offering to Heaven. We then proceeded northward, separting before reaohing the settlements, each seeking hia home quietly. “This is the true history of the fate of the Benders, and when, in the future, you hear of the apprehension of any of the tribe, you can put it down as a canard." Six pair of carrier-pigeons belongS to persons in Brooklyn were liberatat Long Branch, the other morning at 9:30, and four birds arrived in Brooklyn at 10:20, making the distance, over forty miles, in fifty minutes.

CURRENT ITEMS. —A quantity of sea shells vrero bored np from a well twenty-seven feet deep, in Sumter County, S. C. —A large beaver dam has formed a lake on Stubble Creek, Cassio County, Idaho, and it is literally full of speckled trout. —It is stated that the lessees of the United States Hotel in Sarato;ja pay $75,000 rent for this season, an advance of $10,000 over last season. —A man at Augusta, Ga., on receiving a doctor's bill for medicine and visits, wrote that he would pay for the medicine and return the visits. —A voudoo conjurer at Anderson, S. C., sells charms which he warrants will enable the owner to send a snake into any desired part of an enemy’s body. - The American Baptists have two churches in Stockholm, Sweden, and are about to form a third. There was an increase of 200 htembers in the past year. —It is said that the locomotives used on the railroads of the United States are doing the work of over 29,000,000 horses, while the census of 1870 aggregates horses of all ages at less than 9,000,000. w —A grocer in Auburn, Cal., sent some clothes to a washerwoman to be laundried. The woman found in the pockets of the trousers $3,000 in bills, and promptly returned the money to the owner. What did the groctr do? He gave her a bar of soap and thanked' her. —When you are traveling always take some stranger into your confidence, tell him how much money you have with you, where you keep it and what you are going to do with it. If he doesn’t relieve you of what you possess you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you have at last met an honest man. ■ •> —A silly American youth who had announced on the steamer that “in England I’m always taken for an Englishhiian, you know,” was disgusted when, on demanding, “One first, single, Euston,” at the Liverpool station, the clerk said. “Seven dollars anda half, please.” It was paid, amid the unsuppressed merriment of his companions. - -The new ‘ passenger omnibuses for Philadelphia are as handy as our oldfashioned omnibuses are unhandy. They have immense wheels, between which the body hangs cloke to the: ground. There is alow platform in the rear, so that ingress is easy. The roof is eight feet above the floor, affording comfort to tall men. There are seats for eight persons; one horse draws;the vehicle.

—The sole hold of the sultan over his subjects is that he is the head of their religion. The only «man who can compete with him for this position is the Sherif of Mecca. The last Sherif was an ambitious man, and it is believed that he was assassinated inconsequence of orders received from Constantinople. The present Sherif is a young man, and the assassination of his predecessor has aroused much feeling in his behalf. —An eccentric Englishman lately went up to the top of Mount Blanc for the purpose of building a fire where none hail ever been kindled. He succeeded in doing so, and, on getting back to the inn at the foot of the mountain, recorded his-triumph in English upon the hotel register. It was achievements like this that originally made the Englishman the laughing stock in French comedy that he is to- ■ lay. • —A miner at Bridgeport, Pa., undertook to double his income at a very small expense by adopting an orphan boy and making him do a man’s work in the mines. The boy performed the labor until, in order to lessen the cost, the miner allowed him only one meal a day. Even the blows of a club did not keep him going on such a diet. He was missing for several days, and then the neighbors found him in his master’s cellar, fastened to a post bv a chain around his neck, and half dead with hunger and beatings. —An English Prelate, a year or two prior to his being raised to the Episcopate, remarked to a friend that a visit to Switzerland had long been a day dream with him, which he feared might never be accomplished. It is so with very many of his brethren. An English clergyman’s life is, for the most part, one of unceasing toil, and his emoluments, unless he be a m'an of private means, permit of little holiday makfbg. Such men regard with much surprise the crowd of clericat holiday makers who swarm each year to Europe from this side of the Atlantic. —At the Panopticon of Dresden there is on exhibition a curious piece of mechanism, entitled “Get up. Over a bed is a dial, the index of which is sfet over night to the hour at which the sleeper wishes to arise in the morning, which, when it reaches the bed, as a mild preliminary to more decisive action, lights a powerful lamp, so placed as to cast its rays directly on the sluggard. Should this gentle hint fail, five minutes later the bed automatically falls asunder, causing its sleepy occupant to lapse to the floor with a force and suddenness that prove fatal to slumber. —Secretary Evart’s professional income is estimated at from $75,000 to. $100,000 a.year (it has been as great as $150,000) but he is not, in the New York sense, rich, owing to his liberal mode of living and his large family. He is the head of the noted firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, of Wall street, with ten or twelve partners, and many of the most prominent bankers and merchants of the city are among

1118 clients. JN o great case is considered completed without Evarts, whose fees are the largest in the Republic, $25,000 to $50,000 not being unusual. He is now about sixty-two years old though he does pot appear over fifty, and he is as alert as he was at forty. —A Spanish peasant, living in the suburbs of Madrid, has long been in the habit of repairing daily to the city, accompanied by a donkey laden with milk for distribution among certain customers. One day, however, the master was taken ill, whereupon his wife suggested that the ass should be sent on his customary journey alone. The panniers were accordingly filled with cans of milk as usual, and a bit of paper was attached to the donkey's headstall requesting the customers to help themselves to their ordinary allowance of milk, and to put back the cans into the pannier. Off started the donkey, and he returned in due course with the cans empty and with everything in order The master found upon inquiry that the trusty messenger had called at the right doors without missing one, and also that in some instances he had pulled the bell with his teeth when kept waiting. From that day forward the donkey has gone his rounds alone.

The Ilaurock Veterans. . The Executive Committee of the National Association of Hancock Veterans recently met in New York and agreed upon tne following address: Veterans of the Union: i Nearly twenty years have passed since a bloody civil war began in which you took part in order to preserve the integrity of the Union and maintain the supremacy of the Federal lawp. After four years of alternate defeat and victory actual fighting ceased, but peace n®*®rtheless did not follow. The dominant political party, assuming the merit of ■access achieved by your toils and your courage, by keeping alive sectional bitterness between the victors and the vanquished, attempted to make your deeds the foundation of their own permanent power. In the Sonth this was done by the harrassing course of the carpet-baggers, by the inquisittons of Provost Marshals, and by means of United States soldiers, who were used to Intimidate citizens at the polls and to lock the doors of legislation against legally elected repsentatives of the people. In the North it was done by persisteut misrepresentations of the acts and attitude of the Southern people, by the surveillance of Supervisors of Elections, and by the arbitrary authority of Marshals, who dragged orderly and innocent men from the polls to prisons to prevent this free exercise of the elective franchise, and by blatant charges of disloyalty against tho one-legged aud one-armed soldiers who had dared to assert that in the war" for the Union they had not fought for four years to strike the ■hackles from the slave and weld them into manacles for freemen. A reaction from this oondition of things was inevitable ampng a people who inherited liberty, and the eyes of the North and the South have at length' been opened. The North has proposed to settle the sectional feeling which the dominant political party has notoriously and selfishly kept alive, be taking as candidate for President one of our own Generals—a man whose loyalty to the Union has been shown in four years of march and buttle, and in shedding bis blood amid the clash of crossing bayonets; whose capacity as a ruler has been shown in his orders ami in the administration of complicated civil duties. When invested with vast and arbitrary power, he refused to bo the tool of tyranuy, and to use it against a people who were crushed; a man, in short, whose ‘moderation is known unto all men.’ The South, likewise, to show that it accepts all the legitimate results of the war and desires that true fraternal feeling bo re-established, has asked us ,as with a single voice, to give them as President the sturdiest fighter among our Union Generals—a man on whose justice they can roly and who places the right of freemen above the exercise of despotic military power. “ In this crisis of the Nation Providence has given us the man who combines in himself all these requirements. General Winfield Scott Hancock, our candidate for the Presidency, is the man for the hour. Under his lead let all Union veterans again ‘touch elbows’ and the blafxlless battle won, true liberty and true peace will be ours once more. Let those boast of patriotism who have reveled in power and the spoils of office for twenty years, yet never heard the sound of hostile bullets ou the battlefield; but do you, whose toils and wounds best prove your love of the Republic, put the seal to your labors by placing your gallant and skillful leader in the Executive chair of the Nation, so that the bones of your comrades who died for liberty, unity and peace, may not in vain whiten the battle-fields of the country. To do this, ignore the lines of party, and let the blue and the gray forever fade from our •ight as colors of opposing forces. Our own oved banner gives us all the colors we need, uid over us hereafter may the ‘Flag of feedom and union wave; Peace and order and beauty draw Round its symbols of right and law, ; And over the stars above look down On the Stars below in our banner’s crown.* And wo shall then know that the stars which represents tho States of the Union, like the stars of the heavenly constellation, will be forever and inseparably united, although each shines with its own light. Comrades, let our music be of the Union and our step ‘the charge.’ and with us shall rest, at last, the crowning victory. Wm. F. Smith, Chairman. James McQuade, Duncan S. Walker, M. T. McMahon, Francis Darr, George M. Sauer, T. Kilby Smith, St. Clair A. Mulholland, P. M. Haverty, C. C. Wheeler, Finley Anderson, Executive Committee.

| - The Sherman Letter. Those who hoped to find in the now famous letter of General Hancock to General Sherman, written December 28, 1876, an Expression of reactionary tendencies will have been grievously disappointed on perusing the document. Tfae letter was not written for the public eye, and conceals no ulterior design on the part of the author, but it will carry conviction to the Nation of General Hancock’s eminent fitness for the duties of the exalted office in which a freat political party hopes to plane him. he sentiments expressed are those of patriotism in its deepest and broadest sense. Although the time was one of peril, the writer was hopeful, even confident, of a peaceful solution of the difficulties of the situation. He abhorred the idea of a resort to arms for the settlement of a civil issue, and declared that “the army should have nothing to do with the election or inauguration of Presidents.” He believed, as, other statesmen then believed, and as many still believe, that the machinery for the contingency then Eresented hail been carefully prepared y the founders of the Government, and that all that remained to do was to execute the law. He believed that should the two houses of Congress fail to agree as to who had been elected President, the immediate representatives of the people—the House of Kepresentatives—should proceed to select a Chief Magistrate. “The Senate,” he said, “elects Vice-Presidents, not Presidents.” How much more logical and consistent is this construction of the Constitution than that formulated by the Republican leaders in Congress at that time, that it was within the power of one man’s whim or fancy to choose a President of the United States! General Hancock believed when he wrote that, if the House was called upon to elect a President, as atthattime seemed Erobablc it would, Mr. Tilden would e chosen. How many millions of his countrymen believed then as General Hancock did? This is all the letter contains to support the malioious charge that General Hancock had expressed a willingness or intention to obey "Mr. Tilden asCommander-m-chief of the army before he became President. No one can fail to perceive the utter'baselessness of the accusation, and the ,eareful perusal of General Hancock’s letter can only strengthen «belief in the sincerity of the remark recently attributed to him that he had not written anything he was ashamed of.— St. Louis Republican.

The Desire For a Change. While the armies of the United States, made up of Republicans and Democrats, were busy in suppressing the rebellion and in upholding the Constitution, the Republican leaders were occupied with the capture of the Government which that Constitution created. It was a safe and lucrative duty, and the world knows that in performing it they availed themselves of their opportunities. When they entered into great offices they were for the most part poor. The greater number have attained riches. They were not in trade—they had no considerable practice in any profession. They toiled not, neither did they spin. And yet they grew rich. Many of them speculated upon the knowledge or iniluenee which they possessed by reason of their official position. Many acted or legislated with selfish motives or for corrupt purposes. The fluctuations which' were created in the markets of the country redounded to the private -advantage of many. How far the mischief and corruption went no man know's. The people are weary of men who avail themselves of opportunities--for such opportunities may always he created. When we say that the people are weary of this state of things, .wo mean the people of all

political opinions. They have shown it by keeping the Republicans out of power in Congress for now seven years. They have shown it by trying to put the Republicans out of power in the Executive four years ago. Cheated of tjjis purpose then, they will secure it now. They want men of character in high places. They want, above all. a Chief Magistrate at whom no man can look askance. Party leaders familiar with legislative abuses may overlook the departure of an associate on one or more occasions from the plain path of duty and honor. Conventions in the excitement of the hour may forget their obligations to the communities which they represent and condone immoral Eublic actions. But the people who ave time top reflect, and who have at heart no interest except what they may believe to be the public good, never fail to reject the offender whom such leaders or such conventions may have enendeavored to force upon their choice. Such leaders and their candidate have had their opportunity. It is time that the captured Government should be surrendered and cleansed and administered upon a different theory.—N. Y. World. General Hancock and Order No. 40. The fame of General Hancock as a soldier is secure. Now and then, it is true, some Republican pole-cat exercises its powers of profanation, but without avail. In the list of the world’s great Captains, the name of Hancock will be forever illustrious. Whether in camp, on the march, or in the tierce shock of battle, he was always the same self-poised, self-sustained man. No matter what the ordeal, he met and passed it with a courage that comrnanded the applause of all who were capable of appreciating valor- “Napoleon at the passage of Lodi, at Areola, when he stood with the standard in his hand midst a tempest of balls and grape shot, and at Wagram, where he rode on his white steeiE before his shivering lines,did not show more dauntless courage than Hancock in battles in which he led tho armies of the Union to victory. It is easy to underrate military genius, to assign it a low rank when classifying the elements of true greatness. It is easy to assume that a great soldier is only a great soldier, and that his highest enjoyments are in camp or in battle, surrounded with carnage. General Hancock does not belong to that class. He is not more a soldier than he is a civilian. If he has studied thoroughly the science of war, he has mastered as completely the Constitution and the science of civil .government, and lienee his triumphs in defending the rights of the people with his

pen have been as grand as his triumphs when at Gettysburg, ih ’ the Wilderness and on other battle-fields he contended for the rights of the people with his \ sword. His fame as a statesman is as bright as his fame as a soldier. Indeed, the lessons to be drawn from hig triumphs in New Orleans will shine with fadeless luster when wars and rumors of wars shall cease to disturb the Nations of the earth. Nothing can be of more importance to the American people than to have a perfect knowledge of General Hancock’s triumphs of statesmanship in Louisiana. The Constitution declares that: “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. | “The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury. “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” f Such is the language of the Constitution—guaranteeing to the people of the United States their liberties. General Hancock, as military commander, was clothed with almost absolute power. The supreme moment had arrived to test his patriotism, his statesmanship and his loyalty to the Constitution of his country. Two sovereign States were under his military heel, if he so elected. The' lives, property and liberty of thousands of nis fellow citizens were at his mercy. If he faltered, he fell. If he thirsted for power the tempting cup was within his reach, brimfull. Under such circumstances he issued the famous order, No> 40, as follows: ■* [General Orders, No. 40.1 Hkadoh'teks Fiith Military District, ! . New Orleans, La., Nov. 29, 1887. f 1. In accordance with general orders No. 81, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's office, Washington, D. 0., August 27, 1887. Major-General W. S. Hancock hereby assumes command of the Fifth Military District, and of tho Department composed of the States of Louisiana and Texas. 2. The General commanding is gratified to learn that peace and quiet reign in this Department. It will be his purposo to proserve this condition of things. As a means to this great end he regards the maintenance of the civil authorities in the faithful, execution of the laws as the most efficient Under existing circumstances. f> In war it is indispensable to'qepel’ force byforce, and overthrow and destroy opposition to lawful authority. But when insurrectionary force has been overthrown and peaco established, and tho civil authorities are ready and willing to perform their duties, the military power should cease to lead, and the civil administration resume its natural and rightful dominion. Solemnly impressed with these views, the Genoral announces that the groat principles of American liberty are still tho lawful inheritance of this people, and ever should be. The right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons, ami the rights of property must be preserved. Free institution*, while they are essential to the prosperity and happinoss of tho people, always furnish tho strongest inducements to peace and order. Crimes and olfeuses committed in this District must be referred to the consideration and judgment of the regular civil tribunals, and those tribunals will be supported iu their lawful jurisdiction. Should there bo violations of existing laws which are not inquired into by the civil magistrates, or should failures in the administration of justice by the Courts be complained of, tho cases will be reported to these headquarters, when such orders will be made as may bo deemed necessary. While the General thus indicates his purpose to respect the liberties of the people, no wishes all to understand that armed Insurrection or forcible resistance to the law will be instantly suppressed by arms. By command of Major-General W. S. Hancock.

Every subsequent order issued by General Hancock, while in command of Louisiana and Texas, breathed the same spirit that has made Order No. 40 famous, and for this fidelity to the Constitution the Republican party sought to disgrace him, and did finally remove him. Such triumphs enraged the Republican party. They gave the people their constitutional righ.ts; they were exhibitions not only of exalted patriotism, but of the highest order of statesmanship. They are worthy of the study of the American people.—Indiana State Sentinel. -The effect of General Garfield's letter of acceptance has been to make every one of his supporters profoundly thankful that the etiquette of a presidential campaign will compel the Chicago jiominee for the rest of the season to put his thumb in his mouth and sit down on his pen.—If. Y. World. [arfield practically abandons the ties the case.” There is no intelligent doubt that New York will vote for Hancock, He says that “New York set

Tbs Republican Longing for *' Statesmanship.” It is “ statesmanship ” that the Republican politicians are hankering after now. The “soldier business,’” they assert, is played out. “ The country needs a statesman, a Christian statesman like Garfield.” Such is the plea they make for the election of their candidate for President. But when they come to exhibit their “statesman” they find that they have nothing to show the public hut a Congressman whose special opportunities for studying political economy and the nature ot our Government were confined to his service as a member and for several years as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. That committee, as is well understood, is the parent of ail the swindling jobs by whieh the Treasury is plundered from year to year. That committee is a school of corruption, in which selfish and sordid men become apt scholars. In that school Garfield was trained. It was there he acquired his “statesmanship.” Asa member of that committee he received the Credit-Mobilier stock from Oakes Ames and the 000 fee from Do Goiyer. If he has had any other training in statesmanship his public career does not show it. Ah! we must not forget his action as a “visiting statesman’” and counselor to the Louisiana Returning-Board thieves and his subsequent service as a sworn Judge in the eight-to-seven electo,ral Commission. His acceptance of the position of a Judge in the electoral dispute after he had volunteered as an attorney in the matter must be taken into account when we sum up his achievements as a statesman. So^ithen, it appears that Garfield’s statecraft on which his political supporters base his claims to the Presidential office consists in his performances as a member of the Committee on Appropriations and as an attorney for Hayes before the Louisiana Returning Board and a Judge on the Electoral Commission. General Hancock, thank Heaven, has. had* no experience of this character and makes no pretensions to that kind of statesmanship to which Genoral Garfield’s public career has been devoted. But General Hancock has proved himself an able expounder as he was a fearless defender of the Constitution. When the destinies of the people of two great States were placed in his hands he refused to erect a military despotism, but simply proceeded to enforce the laws as lie found them. He took care that the great fundamental principles of republican government should not be violated

out preserved in ms administration, m order that the peophrof Louisiana and Texas might be protected in their constitutional i-ights he declared that the habeas corpus, the right of free speech, a free press, liberty of conscience ami the natural rights of persons must be preserved. In other words he made toe military the servant of the civil power, as is the plain intendment>of pur form of Government. His administration in those States was as free from violence as it was clear from any sort of corruption. He was kind but firm, patient but resolute, and while loyal to the Federal authority he sought to win back the alienated population totheir former lore of the old flag by proving to them that obedience to the Constitution and laws was the only test of the right of citizenship. While Hancock was engaged in performing the highest acts of statesmanship in his endeavor to rehabilitate the States of Louisiana and Texas in their suppressed state-hood, Garfield was'employed in figuring out appropriations for woden pavements in Washington and other similar raids on the Treasury.—Hurrisburq (Fa.) Patriot., Condemned as Unfit. Taking the most charitable view possible of General Garfield’s record in the Credit Moodier and De Golyer eases and he must stiil be condemned as unlit for the highest office in the gift of the people. No member of Congress ought to piaee himself in circumstances of suspicion so that any discredit of the body shall arise on his account. In a free government it cannot be expected that the people Will long respect* the laws if they lose respect" for the lawmakers. for these reasons it behooves every man in Congress, or in any public position, to hold himself aloof as far as possible from all influences; that he may not only be enabled to look at every" publio question with an eye only to the public good, but that his conduct and motives be not suspected or questioned. To this standard, evon in the estimate of his most zealous advocates, General Garfield did not conform. He did not “hold himself aloof” from influence. On the contrary, he listened to the wiles of the tempter. He did act so that his conduct and motives were suspected and questioned, as his most ardent supporters are compelled to admit. As » lawmaker, therefore, he lost the respect of the people and prepared the way for a disrespect on their part for the laws. If he were in the Executive chair he would still be unable to command popular respect. He would still bear, even to the eves of partial partisanship, the stain of having so acted as to excite suspicion and question. He would inspire, therefore, no respect for the laws he would be called upon to execute, even if he did not bring them positively into disrespect.

It is no partisan standard which is here set up for the measurement of General Garfield. It is not a Democratic invention, framed with reference to the particular circumstances of his case and for the purpose of bringing a political opponent into condemnation. On the contrary, it is the standard of conduct in Congressional and other public life set up by a Republican committee appointed for the express purpose of dealing leniently with Republicans accused of irregular and improper transactions. 'Every word that is said above as to the duty of a Congressman in keeping himself free from suspicion and aloof from influence is taken from the Poland report in the Credit Mobilier affair, and was incorporated therein, not asau abstract discussion of Congressional duty or propriety, but as a lecture to Garfield and the Congressmen who were, with him, the subject of investigation. And it was in concluding the lecture that the committee gave Garfield and his colleagues that most stinging rebuke contained in the commendation to them, as a lesson worthy of their consideration, the letter written by the venerable Senator Bayard, in response to an offer of some of the stock which they had bought.—Detroit Free Press. -— The Republican platform insists that that party restored specie payments. It says nothing as to who suspended them. It is simply a boast that ! the party repaired owe of the many \ items in the catalogue of its blunders and misauanagemenis.--:PMsl>urgh Post.

POLITICAL POINTS. * -The betting in New York is nil in favor of Hancock. Hancock men are offering a commission of ten per cent, for the securing of opportunities to Ixit on their' candidate.— W. Y. Express. -If General Hancock would whisper into the ear of Mr. Carl Sehurz that De^pocratic success would not disturb him in his present relations to^the Government, we venture the opiniup that a large majority of the Hessian's, fears concerning the danger of such success would disappear.—Harrisburg r'XPa.) Patriot. ——The people have the voice of a statesman in the clear, unequivocal, ringing sentences of General Hancock's letter. There is fouinl the very expression for whieh the public has been f waiting. The Democratic candidate neither mouths his phrases nor seeks to cover with a veil ol weak words the purpose of his speech. He is direct and to the point.—Boston Globe. -The St. Louis Times, in speaking of Hancock’s letter of acceptance, says: “It is admirably short, plaiu and to the point. There is no etrort at tine writing about it. Every voter in the country who understands the -English language can understand every proposition it contains. It is just such a letter as was to be expected from the trank character of the man, just such a letter as the gravity of the occasion demanded.” ' t . —-—General Burt, who was postmaster at Boston under Grant, has come to the defense of Oakes Ames againstthe aspersions- of the Republican press. He says that Ames told the truth in his testimony concerning Garfield, and that, although ho is out of politics, he is unwilling .to hear the memory of his deceased friend traduced > by the supporters of the Chicago candidate for the latter's benefit. General Burt has always been a Republican and has never voted a Democratic ticket, but this year he is “undecided as to his line of duty. " -General Hancock’s brief, but pointed discussion of the public policy that most directly affects our great blit long languishing material interests is replete with philosophy and statesmanship. The declaration that public ioffioe is a trust,; not a bounty bestowed upon the holder, is not as elaborate, as George William Curtis would make it to express his views of civil-service reform, but it has the merit of telling the truth in the blunt way that gives the air of sincerity; and when he next reminds the country that civil-service reform must,first be established by.the people in tilling the electoral offices, ho admonishes the sincere friends of a better civil-service how to strike the only deadly blow that can be directed againstthe present evil,—Philailelphia

limes. -The New York Evening Post thinks the Democrats would.be no impiovement upon the Republicans in the civil-service because they have been twenty years out of office and arehungry. The beauty of this argument is that like rum it grows stronger by keeping. Supposing the Republican* this ydsr, the DetnoCrats\Vi'IF ~ be four years hungrier in 1884, and hence more dangerous, and so on, in arithmetical progression, until event-* ually, according to this argument, they will probably haye to be chained np to keep them from; devouring postotnces and custom-houses bodily without sauce. Logic is a great thing, but when it makes the rule of the Republican party a necessity as long as our - s form of government stands, it is going # a little too far.—Boston Post. Don’t Want to Compare Candidates. It has been generally supposed hitherto that the Presidency ot the United States was a position of some importance, but apy one who reads the current Republican definitions of its functions aud scope and believes them will have to revise his estimates. It is a very significant fact that the Republicans avoid a comparison of candidates. From their handling of the subject the inference is that the President is little more than a figure-head to represent the acts and wishes of others. This may be true of the man in the White House to-day, but he in no sense represents the executive idea. He Is a President by accident, and both parties have been patiently watting for his unwelcome incumbency to expire by limitation. He cannot be accepted as a proper type. A strong, efficient and positive man is nodded in the Presidential chair,’ if anywhere, in the Government of this country. We cannot per* mit the Republicans to cover np the personality of their candidate by: any such pretence as this, that the records , of parties are everything and the records of men nothing. We are willing to abide by the records of parties as far as they go, but this fs but a portion ol the responsibility of parties in a Presidential campaign. The records of candidates must accompany them, and whichever side attempts an evasion ol the whole responsibility gives the people just ground for suspicion that it does not deserve their support. When forced upon a defensive position, the Republicans resort to their usual line of safe generalities. They

“ point with prate to the eivu record of their candidate. Their reserve of detail is weak, and when driven back upon it their fight is brief. When the; -attempt to use Garfield's speeches for artillery, they find them treacherous at the breech and liable to kill more at that end than at the muzzle. The fact is, Garfield’s civil record is a contradiction of itself. Its corner stones are placed upon both sides - of every questtion, and he has built it so broad that it is very weak in the middle. Garfield's reputation as a statesman is due wholly to the fact that he is an unctuous anil forcible speaker, and not to any contributions that he has ever made to ths science of government, or to the sum of National progress. He is a man who forces liimself into the foreground of public notice by his vigorous self-assertion, and it was this policy that drew Republican lightning to him at Chicago, when it was darting about in desperate searoh for a "eondo dor. He has the politician's faculty, strongly developed, of always placing himself in a suggestive light. The United States would haTe been just as well off, and just as far advanced, had James A. Garfield never been boro. f But who can say the same of Winfield Scott Hancock ? But for him the great struggle of the Nation would have been greatly prolonged, and- much more doubtful/ And when the war was ended, he first showed respect for the Constitution, and a love of that peace whioh makes the Nation prosperous and happy. This seems to us a fair test. There can bardty be t wo opinions as to whieh of the candidates we could have best spared in the yssst, and for the most part we must j rdgs the future by the past,—nation