Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 September 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled irom Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. It is authoritatively announced that Gen. B. F. Butler will take the stump in Massachusetts for the Democratic ticket, but will not himself be a candidate for Governor. Michael Davitt, the associate of Parnell, had a pnblic reception in St. Louis on Sunday, the 22d. A duel between James Barron Hope, editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Landnutrk, and Col. Wm. Lamb, Mayor of Norfolk, was prevented by the arrest of the Mayor Just as he was leaving his house for the field of battle. Capt. Hope reached the rendezvous. Upon his return he was required to give bond to keep the peace. The Democrats and Greenbaekers both held meetings at Coffeeville, Miss., on the 22d. a special election for Sheriff being appointed for the Tuesday following. While the Democratic procession was marching by a difficulty occurred between a negro named Spearman, who was in the Democratic procession, and P. V. Pearson, Greenback candidate for Sheriff, which resulted in Pearson shooting Spearman, killing him instantly. This was the signal for a general melee,and a volley of shots was opened upon Pearson, who was shot three times, from the effects of which he died the same«night. Two whites, Kelly and - Keddiek, friends of Pearson, were wonnded., A National Convention of tlio Union soldiers who were made prisoners during the War of the Rebellion has been called to meet at Indianapolis September £9 and 31). The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, a brother of Henry Ward Beecher, has been nominated for Congress by the Greenbackera of the Elmira (N, Y.) District. Attokney-Gekeral Deyens is announced to make several political speeches in Minnesota and Indiana, v Judge Henry M. SpoffoRd, of Louisiana, is dead. Lord Rosebery has been appointed British Under-Secretary for India, rice the Marquis of Lansdowne, resigned. Chief Ouray is lying dangerously ill at the Southern Ute Agency. Col. Wm. H. Edgar, of the Jerseyville Republican, has received the Republican nomination for Congress in the Eleventh Illinois District.

BlUG.-liBN. ALBERT J. MYER, Chief of the Signal Service, died of heart disease at Buffalo, N. Y.,on the 24th. He was born at Newburgh, N. Y., in 1828, and entered the Army as Assistant Surgeon in 1854. He was the originator of the present system of storm signals, and was popularly known in connection with the published prognostications as “ Old Probabilities.” The joint debate between Porter and Landers in Indiana has been definitely arranged to begin at South Bend on Sept. 2 and terminate at Boonville on Sept. 16, in all the principal vtawns in each ^Congressional District. » >:• Gen. James Craig has been nominated for Representative in Congress by the Democrats of the Ninth Missouri District. The New Jersey Prohibition Reform Party will nominate State and Electoral tickets to be supported at the coming elec-., tion. Dr. George B. Johnston and CaptJohn S. Wise, both prominent citizens of Richmond, Va., have been placed under bonds not to fight a duel, the preliminaries i of which, it is generally understood, had been all arranged. The difficulty grew out of C’apt. Wise having been black-balled by the Westmoreland Club, an aristocratic or- ~ ganization of which Dr. Johnston is a prominent member. ~- Gen. Grant left Denver on the 23d, on his return to Galena. •■Horace Maynard, the new Post-master-General, has entered upon the discharge of his official duties. Richard O. Adams, the defaulting Postmaster at" Deadwood, D. T., escaped from custody while awaiting sentence. A reward is offered for his apprehension. Representative Hatch has been renominated bv the Democratic Congressional Convention of the Tyteifth Missouri District. The Iowa Republican State Conven ti m. held at Des Moines on the 25th, nominated the following ticket of State officers: For Secretary of State, Capt. J. A.-T. Hull (renominated); Auditor, W. Y. Lucas, of Cerro Gordo; Treasurer, E. H. Conger, of Dallas; Register, Capt. J. R. Powers; At-torney-General, Smith McPherson. The Democratic Convention of the Fourth Missouri District renominated Hon. Lowndes H. Davis for Representative. nPmm -1_1_ *

nominated Thomas D. Hoxie for Governor The Republican State Executive Committee of Texas met at Hearne on the $3tli and placed in nomination the following ticket: For Governor, ex-GoV. E. J. Davis, of Austin; for Lieut.-Gov-ernor, E. Siemmering, of San Antonio; for Comptroller, J. D. Wood, of ah for Treasurer, James W. Thomas, of B; for Commissioner, Jacob Keuchler, of Austin; for Attorney-General, J. D. McAdoo, of Brenham; Judge of the Court of Appeals, J. B. Williamson, of Marshall. It is announced, apparently by authority, that Gen. Sherman has consented tp the p'uhlicatloh of his part of the correspondence with Gen. Hancock in reference to tbe Presidential deadlock in 1876. Gen. Sherman’s letters will be printed in a campaign life of Gen. Hancock soon to be issued by a new York publishing house. t COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. James Alliger^ a well known New York broker, bas been held in $10,000 bonds »answer the charge of negotiating stolen securities. The Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company have declared*a dividend of 10 per cent, and will befbi paying it on September 1. The amount required to pay this dividend is $296,868. M.R- Thomas Hughes, author of * ‘ School Days at Rugby, ” has arrived in this country with a number of young Englishman of good families, who are to settle upon aliifthtract of land in Eastern Tennessee, purchased by an organization of whieh Mr. Hifehes is the chief promoter. The land Borises about 400,000 acres and is located on! the Cumberland plateau, in Morgan, ‘ ,t,tOverton and Fentress Counties. Bow, President of the Chicago of Trade, has been caught on the sh4rt aide of provisions and forced to sus^Riitubks to the Department of Agriculture since August 1 show aa increase in the conditknrof cotton compared with July. The present average condition for the whole country is 10!. General average of the oorn sinee August 1, 98,^agalnst WO for The condition of spring wheat 88 181 last year. The early months were very dry, and the rains which came were too late to restore the loss. California and Orego* neporti the highest condition since several years. Tobacco shows a general average for the whole country of 88. The potste

crop is ?8 against OT the previous ;rear. | Buckwheat shows a slight decline frcm the preceding year. In Juice extracted from several varieties ot sorgho-cane, about the 12th of A ugust, more than 111 per cent, of sucrose w»s found. ’ . n ' CttlllRS AND CASUALTIES, At Morristown, Tenn., on circus day, B- 'ft Richardson, a desperate character, shot gnd killed Marshal James I. Morris, whibad«arlier ta the day arrested, ldihfor shooting i t a negro, i lie then opened fire on Sheriff B. Loop, Wounding him in two places aptl receiving two shots in Teturn from the Sheriff’s revolver. A bystander then took a.hand in and shot Richardson through the heart:. Several citizens were slightly wounded by stray bullets. Up to the 22d, twenty-five deaths had resulted trom the May’s Landing (X. J.) disaster. Chabj.es Williams and Lewis A. Gaines, two murderers, were hanged at Silver City, N. M., on the 20th. A th sashing-mac hike boiler exploded on the farm of Mrs. J.Kleibtr, near Shabonier, 111., on the 23d, killing the engineer, Ed. Snster, and badly scalding two other persons. The engine and thrasher were entirely demolished and six stacks of wheat and oats were burned. In Ma -shall County, Ky., near Brewer’s Mill, Mrs. Lyles and her little daughter and Mrs. Tyre, her mother, were all fatally burned by a kerosene explosion and all died within a few hours. Mr. Lyle fits badly burned while trying to extinguish the flames.. The accident resulted from an attempt to fill a lighted lamp from the kerosene can, which exploded, throwing the burning oil ever the three ocenpaqts of the room and sotting their olot iing on fire. j.At Chicago, on the 23d, Simon Zimmerman, a workman in the Chicago Electrical Works,-shot his wife and then himself, both through the head. -No cause is known for the tr igedy. V. Mabt n Winnick.tu&oM farmer living on the line of Dane and Columbia Counties, .Witi., killed his wife, set file ito his house, and then committed suicide. Family troubles. “Doctor” Buchanan, who fled from Philadelphia to escape trial, after coneoeting a very ingenious scheme to make people believe he t ad drowned himself, went to Detroit in dsguise, where, under an assumed name, he intended to connect himself with another to-called medical college. H® was recognized by an ottl acquaintance a, few davs nfte r his arrival, however, and crossed

the river into Canada Just in time to save himself from arrest upon a telegraphic order from Philadelphia. The crisis in Buenos Ayres' is terminated. The Provincial Chambers have been closed hr the military. President Avellanoda has withdrawn his resignation. Two Mexicans, named Gallegh and Valdez, s rrested at Albuquerque, N. M., a few days ago on suspicion of murder, have made a fill confession. The name of the man murdered was S. Daprez, and it appeared h i had been a sheep-owner in Southern Colorado. Tljey sa^l they obtained $1,200 in money, a check for $125, several Post-offi<!e orders, two horses and a wagon, and other effects. Of the money i40(> was found on their persons. Daprez was traveling south alone, and stopped in a tent over night. One of the Mexicans shot him while asleep, while the other ‘stood by with an ax ready to afford assistance if necessary. , Max Levikqkb, a collector, was set upoto by twb “m,|m * in First. Avenue, Npw York Ciljy, in broad daylight on the 21st, and robbed of his pocket-book and watch and chain, Levinger gave chase, when one of ti e robbers turned and flmd upon him, but'the bullet missed its marl; and struck a butcher boy in the neck, causing a faial wound. The dead body of a young woman was found in the hallway of the building Nos. 205-9 West Madison Street, Chicago, .at an early hour on the morning of the 25th, which was Subsequently identified as that «f Nettie A. Carl, whose mother lived at 683 West Lake Street. The Coroner’s inquest developed the fact that dea ih was caused by criminal malpractice, and the notorious Dr. Earlli, whose office is n the building named, and who has already nerved two years in the Illinois Penitentiary for a similar offense, was arrested charged with the crime. He confessed that the girl died while under his care, but denied that he was guilty of any crime. Caw. Fred Baker, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and ive men were drowned by the capsizing oi' a yacht in fiockaway Inlet. MISCELLANEOUS. Another big oil fire has occurred near Bradford, Pa., caused by lightning. An o.Hcial report gives the number of persons In Russia tinder; police surveillance at 1,696,

.inoASTKous storms nave occurred in the French provinces. Further intelligence regarding the recent storm on the lower Texas eoa.st and Mexico prove it to hare been of j^ent violence. datamoras and Brownsville suffered the njpst . damage, alarge number of bo ildiDgs in both places being demolished and much other pioperty destroyed.. The land damages alo sg the coast are estimated at $1,000, - 000, while many vessels were driven out into the Calf and seine of them presumably lost witi all on board. The large* i^ger ihBW hb'Wa^pole, Mass., iwnhd byHon. F. tf. Bird. Hollingswo rfK ft Ob., horned cm the asoming of the 23d. - Loss about $75,000, insuied for three -fourths their valae. Cashs of Asiatic cholera reported to have resulted fatally at Erie, Pa., are pronouncei t merely bad cases of cholera morbus. . In the competition for the Knights Templar drill prizes at Chicago, the Baper Comma ndery, of Indianapolis, took the first prize, tie De Moiai Commandery, of Louisville, ware given the second prize, and the third prize was. awarded to the Heed. Commander y No. 6, of Dayton, O. There Is considerab e dissatisfaction with the finding of the committee, and formal protests wore entered by several Commanderies which felt themselves entitled to a prize. A large number of Sitting Boll’s warriois are surrendering themselves at Fort Kuogh. They are promptly disarmed and dis mounted, and will be turned over to the Interior Department and transported to some point on the west side of tile Missouri River a ad as far south as practicable, where they will be placed op a reservation and kept there by such means of restraint as may be found necessary. F. E. Kelly & Co.1# grocery store, Averill, Russell ft Carpenter’s paper warehouse, and some smaller business houses were burned at St. PalilTMinh., on tlie 23d. Loss over $500,000; fully iniured. The Supreme Lodge of the World, Knight i of Pythias, assembled in St. Louis on the :i8d. There was a large attendance and a fine street parade. Vanderbilt has.ordered Mattel 6. to be witi drawn from the track for the present season. New Y »rk sick and destitute. They found

the South American dimate unsuited to them, and after losing nearly ail their funds decided to leave the country where they had experienced so many hardships. At Kingsley, Mich., Irvin Bingham an# his brother asked Tim Selliher to ride in their wagon. He got in and was standing:up behind, the seat. Soon alter there was the report of a pistol, and Irvin Bingham exclaimed, “I am shot!” Keltiher claimed that'it was accidental; that he wSS shooting at a mark on the roadside. He assisted in getting the wounded man to his home. Arriving there, Killiher started to leave the house, when the wounded man grasped a rifle near the bedside and fired. Killiher fell, shot through the Iung3. Both men were fatally wounded. At Terre Haute, Inti., a son of George Ha&tett, 14 years ot age, descended into a vault that had just been dug after arule that he had dropped. He was immediately overcome by foul air, and his father, going to his assistance, was also stricken down. Both were dead when extricated. An extensive lumber Are occurred at St. Louis on the night of the 25th, the Cameron Mills and the yard of Mr. John Meyer being the principal losses, which aggregate about $100,000. A new Atlantic cable company has been formed-for the purpose of laying a cable between England and the Azores, and between the Azores and America. All the necessary concessions have been obtained. In the House of Commons, on the ?3d, an interesting discussion took place regarding the attitude of the Government towards Ireland. The Chief Secretary for Ireland Btated that the Government did not think it necessary to ask for exceptional powers for the preservation of peace and protection of life and property tn Ireland, “ They do not know,” he said, “whether they can rely during the coming autumn and winter upon the common law. They do not fear a rising, but the condition of the conntry is precarious, and should the necessity arise the Government would not hesitate to summon Parliament in order to obtain additional powers, but they do not think the occasion likely to arise.” John Dillon (Home Euler) moved an adjournment in order to give Mr. Forster an opportunity to explain his recent language. Mr. Dillon said: “I do not mind being called coward and impostor, bui I object to the accusation of deliberate wickedness because I advise resistance to a law. which the Government itself had called unjust, yet continued to administer. I will repeat that advice at every land meeting in Ireland.” Mr. Forster said hn tutrl nn Avnlnnntmn tn moVa Knt th.t

adhered to every word he had uttered. Mr. Dillon had preached disobedience to a law which the Government was determined to uphold. Mr. Forster added: “The recent horrible outrages in Ireland show the barbarism to which a speech like Mr. Dillon’s excites the people.” Mitchell Henry moved adjournment for the purpose of raising the debate on the use of buckshot by t he police of Dungannon, which he strongly denounced. Mr. Forster said the Government was responsible for that action. It had authorized the use of buckshot as more humane than ball. The police on* tired upon and charged t*t> rioters when ab|olutely necessary. If thejfc had not done so Dungannon would have been sacked. Sir Patrick O’Brien (Liberal) and Messrs. Finnegan, O’Donntfll and Parnell (Home Bulers) protested against t he use of buckshot. Mr. Parnell hoped Foster would rescind the order, which, in the case of Dungannon, had a most unfortunate result. The Marquis of Hartington said if the vote on supplies is finished by Monday next the House can adjourn September 6, but all depends upon the progress of business. Mr. Dillon’s motion for an adjournment was negatived—127 to 21. Dr. Tcrher, Secretary of the National Board of health, says that from official reports received from what, are known as the yelloyf fever districts, he does not anticipate that there will be any yellow fever in this country this season in an epidemic form. There may be sporadic cases, but the disease would then be confined and would not spread. He said the most dangerous part of the season is already over, and nothing tbat could indicate the breaking out of a yellow fever epidemic has beeu reported. Ho attributes the freedom of Memphis from the fever this year to her establishment of sewerage and other sauitary precautions against the engenderment of the disease. The officers of the Board in the different sections are ready to act at a moment’s notice to the extent of .the power conferred upon them by law. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. T he Kansas Democratic State Convention, held at Topeka on the 26th, nominated the following ticket of State officers: For Governor, E. G. Boss, of Dougins County; Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas George,

w ouuiuvi j oecretary oi Sluie. JOQQ ^l. Griffin, of Johnson; Auditor, H. J. G. Neumneber, of Saline; Treasurer, Theodore Wichetbaum, of Riley; Attorney-General, A. L. Hocford, of Norton; Superintendent of Public Instruction, .Hiss.Sarah A: Brown, of Douglas; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, A. R. Wagstaff, of Miami. • ’ The Colorado Republican State Convention, held at Leadville on the 26th, renominated Governor Tit kin. Tho remainder of the ticket is as follows: LieutenantGovernor, Edward W. Robinson, of the celebrated 'Robinson Mine; Secretary of State, NrH. Meldrunavnorenent incumbent; Treasurer, W. C. Saunders, of Weld County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. Connell, of Boulder. The Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Companies have adjusted their differences, and rates on both passengers and freights have been restored. The Island of Jamaica has been devastated by a hurricane, which occurred on the night of the 18th. Thousands of people are homeless. The crops, fruit trees and farm produce generally are destroyed. Colossal trees were uprooted and churches demolished. The barracks in this city were destroyed, three wharvesgone and eight large and thirty-two small vessels were wrecked in the harbor. < A famine is imminent and help is required for starving thousands. On July 15 J.W. Johnson and family, consisting of eight persons, left Cleburne, Texas, in company with Wm, Retor and family, numbering four persons, bound for El Psso. News has Just been received that the entire party were massacred by Indians near where Gen. Byrne was killed. Gen. Roberts’s advance to the relief of Candahar is believed to have been seriously impeded by the continued harassments of the Afghan cavalry, and the situation of the garrison is admitted to be such as to warrant the gravest apprehension. Th» Greenbi^skers of the Eleventh Missouri District have nominated Dr. J. C. Heberiinf?, of Howard County, for Congress. W.F. De Haas, the celebrated painter, is dead, aged SP. He was a native of Rotterdam, but for many years was a resident of (New York City. t A Convention of Deaf Mntes was held at Cincinnati ok th* 25t h . KeprewAtatives were present from the various States and from Canada. ? Ivf /?

Judge Black ea In view of the unde diffusion of the Republican slander that Judge Jere’.S. Black was the real author of the orders, issued by General Hancock in Lori* iana and his letter to Governor Pease,, of Texas, the following from that I tinguislied Democrat, now Tisiti— the Old World, will prove mb To tho Editor of the New YorkwSriii!"171 Sik—A cable dispatch reached me at I don, whence I answered it more briefly i haps than you expected, but 1 thought inti gibly enough. Your later dispatch, came to me here yesterday, I now i ■ reply to I I inferred from your interrogatory that_ _ evil-disposed persons had been attributing me the authorship of the orders and letters i sued by General Hanojck while be command! in Louisiana and Texas. My denial by tel graph was intended to cover the whole ground. I neither wrote those papers nor suggested a word of them: I had no precognition ot his views on the subject to which tney^rjj late, and heard nothing from him __. .. until he had taken the publio into his oonfl* deuce. Indeed, my personal acquaintance with him was then very slight, and our rein-, tions not at ail intimate. The opinion that ]' would offer or he would require uty aid in producing such an order as his No. id is „-.___dwsd His determination to stand by the Constitution and the laws needed no expression but what he could give it better than any mao alive. It was not an argument, not an expose tion of the law, not an essay on the rights of man that was wanted at that critical time. The spoken act of a patriot soldier in high command alone coutd save civil liberty from the destruction with which it was threatened. That was what Hancock did, and it was the timeliest lift that the great cause ever got from any hand except that of Washington. I hope my admiration of the order in question and the gratitude I have felt to him for issuing it can be reasonably accounted for without supposing that I framed or had any share in framing it. The belief was among the friends of Constitutional and expressed by many others as atroutg^ aa by me, that General Hancock had done __ and done it bravely, to rescue the Nat lop and save it alive, first from Secessionists, and afterward from the more dangerous and more unprincipled oligarchy into whose hands it fell after the war. At the date of his service in Louisiana the beau ideal of a -‘strong .Government'’ was in full operation at Washing ton, conducted by men who claimed to be absolute masters of the oountry. State rights., and, as a necessary consequence, individual liberty, were violently trodden dtgrn, and the (institution, which should have made us free, was habitually overridden and insulted. What those men called “ the Government” was not only wondrous strong, but corrupt beyond all example in modem times. Between its force and its fraud the people wore powerless, and their despair was aggravated by an indefinable dread that the whole army might at any moment be used to sink the Nation into still further degradation, if below that lowest depth a lower deep could be reached. It was ifi these circumstances that Hancock spoke out thoso words of truth and soberness which reassured the friends of free government, and inspired them with new hopes. All who were near enough to watch the current of that unequal contest between absolutism and law can remember how the enemies of the Constitution were startled ATttf SU-ilrfiii Whnn ihrtv fitnnd that tho mnet

brilliant general of the Union had officially declared himself opposed to their “savage policy.’' They could not go upon him, nor send upon him, nor in manner destroy him, for not only was the law of the land on his side, but the army was found to be full of sympathy with its conspicuously gallant and faithful leader. So they were fain to content themselves with harmless snoere and petty persecutions. But they removed him from the place where his devotion to the Constitution was specially interfering with their’schemes to subvert it. When they made up their minds to strangle the liberties of a State, to disperse a legal Legislature by brute force, to inaugurate for Governor a shameless adventurer known to have been defeated at the polls, or to pin. the people down with bayonets while they were plundered by alien thieves who claimed to be their In, and offito dp the n avoid his presdhee when thi_ __ to be swindled at a Presidential election. ” It was for such reasons that the heart of the country warmed to General Hancock as its predestined deliverer. It has often happened that the best things of the greatest men are attributed to others who are wholly incapable of them. The opinion was industriously propagated and accepted by a great many as true that Hamilton wrote the farewell address of Washington, but the evidence is conclusive which shows that every word of that immortal production came from Washington himself; and Hamilton oould not have written it any more than he oould have made a world. Some of Jackson's most characteristic papers, bearing the full impress of his own miud, were habitually credited to persons of far inferior ability. When it was charged against Jefferson that he wrote Logan's speech, he solemnly declared that he was unequal to such a composition. I am not affecting modesty when 1 claim credence of my present denial for a similar reason. I could not have written Hancock's No. 40—not because I pretend to be dumb or altogether unskilled in the use of English words, but because if I had undertaken to write it the chqnccs are ninety-nine in a hundred that my argumentation would have marred its majestio simplicity and greatly diminished its power. When a public man, especially a military man, meets a grave responsibility, saying no more nor less than just the thing he ought, but saying that with unequivocal clearness, you may be sure he is the interpreter of his own thoughts. At any rate, the attempt Is unjust to bastardize No. 40 by assigning to it an origin totally different from the true one. Whr should my opinion be asked or volunteered on General Hancock as a civilian? Anybody else who has watched his life is as good a. judge as I, and there are thousands who know him much better. But since the question is propounded I-will answer, subject to fair correction, that he has In him the highest and best qualities of a republican ruler. I think bis fidelity to sound' principles, coupled with his sound judgment, will entitle him to rank well with the great Presidents of former times. I do not compare him with Washington, for the grandeur of that character is and will remain forever unapproachable, but I do say that Washington, if placed in his situation, would have acted precisely as he did. His patriotism has not tho impulsive ardor of Jackson’s, but his fidelity to the truth, his love of justice and his scorn of wrong are quite as unmistakable. He is not a doctrinaire like .Ipffprsnn fur hi a hustr Ufa host loft him

time to study the abstract philosophy of politics, but his practical good sense knows the right intuitively and always catches the nearest way to do it. If he be elected, the ability of his administration will inspire universal respect, and his moderation ana magnanimity will Conciliate even his enemies. I have the fullest faith that he will not only keep hit. oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, but will so carry out its provisions that the great objects of its framers as expressed in the preamble will be fully accomplished—{'To form a more perfect Union, to establish Justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. J. 8. ilf.Afig. --■»*— - ▲ Strong Espousal of Hancock’s Cause. Hon. David Davis, United States Senator from Illinois, has authorized the publication of the following letter declaring his intention to support the Democratic nominee for the Presidency and giving the reasons for arriving at that conclusion: Bloomington, 1U., August A Ur Dear Sib: The training and habits of my life naturally lead me to prefer civilians to soldiers for the great oivu trust; but as parties are organized, voters must choose between the candidates they present or must stand aloof, indifferent or neutral, which no good citizen ought to do at a Presidential election. I have no hesitation in supporting Hancock for the best- of alt reasons, to my mind, because his election will pat an end to sectional strife and sectional parties, and will revive a patriotlo sentiment all over the land, which political leaders and factions for sinister ends have sought to prevent. There can be no permanent prosperity without pacification. Great as were the achievements of General Hancock in war, his conduct in peace, when in command of Louisiana and Texas, in 186T, was still greater, and justly commends him to the confidence of the country. That was-a time when passion ruled in the public councils, and military power was exerted to silence civil authority. The temptation was strong to sail with the rushing current, for an inflamed parti A opinion was too ready to condone excesses and to applaud oppression. General Hancock's order No. 40, in assuming oharge of the Fifth Military District, ah' nounced that the right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons and the rights of property, must be respect od. These principles are the basis of free government, ana the proclamation of them by General Hancock stands out in striking contrast with the action of his superior, who soon after rebuked aud drove him from the command for uttering sentiments worthyof a soldier. The soldier, clothed with extraordinary power, voluntarily uncovered before the ojvj) pie of obedience to Jaw which will pass into history as his soundest claim to distinction. ■Hie map who, in the mi^st of the excitements of that stormy period, was cool enough to see his duty clearly, and courageous enough to execute it firmly, may be trusted in any crisis. - His letter to General Sherman, recently brought to light, lifts Genera) Hancock fat above the past appreciation of hisoivil ability. U marks Mm as one of the wisest of his time,

I position of power by ' extravagance, corruption, e«- After twenty years of loans ettrouie abuses -- —i tbe public service ■kavec— aSfiSSVi to in a change of rulers. MJovemmentmust be*** out of the ruts 5KS?i!J?a8i?0 i2n*fbeearun- New blood F betafused in the management of public relief can be expected. The . , - ■ _ _TlAvro^Divis. 29 Hon. James S. Harvey. Washington city. A Most Distressing Figures '/ In commenting on the report ofthe Poland Committee on the Credii-Mo-iMlier scandal the New York Times on Sie 19th of February, 1873, described ames A. Garfield as presenting “a most distressing figure.” The limes spoke of the dishonor of Garfield's position as “a participation in an obvious fraud,” and it indignantly asks if whether, “in order to save a few Republicans, Garfield and the rest, is it worth ♦hi]e to run the risk of raining the Republican party?” Ifow much more momentous and solemn becomes the question when this “most distressing figure” is presented as a candidate for President erf the United States. But unfortunately the Credit Mobiiier business forms bv no means the only instance in whieh General Garfield cute a distressing figure. General Garfield presents a “most distressing fi»wfre” in the De Golyer paving t ran sacturn, in which he appears as a hired tool of the Shepherd ring, dividing with Richard C. Parsons under the transparent guise of a fee what was in reality a bribe, and selling his official influence as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. This is a still more distressing figure for a candidate for President of the United States. - Garfield presents a distressing figure in the character of a civil service reformer. In a public address in 1876 he indignantly denounced the system under whieh “ Congressmen have become the dispensers, and sometimes the brokers of patronage, and civil office has become a vast competitive power to be used in running the machine of party politics.” “The offices,” he continued, “ are an immeuse bribe, securing to the nartv in

poweran army ot retainers who are the iqost servile of their sort in the world.” As a candidate for President he surrenders this position and sue* cumbs to “the vast competitive power” which formerly gave himself so much solicitude, while Hayes deserts his oivil service policy, and McPherson levies two per cent, contribution upon “the army of retainers whe are the most servile of their sort in the world.” Garfield presents an awkward and distressing figure in his double-faced record on the tariff. In one session he Tites to repeal the duty on coal as “an in mother to jnain, won the excessive rates of tax on salt. At one time he inclines to theories of protection, at another he lauds the British free-trade system as the perfection of human wisdom, taunting the proteetkmists with the decleration that “the great thinkers of modern times” are against them. Garfield presente a distressing figure in his connection with the great electoral fraud. A visiting statesman, who sat at the side of Madison Wells when erasing ten thousand votes in Louisiana, he returned to sit upon the Commission as a judge. He denounced the Electoral bill as “ a usurpation in every meaning of the word,” asserting that it assumes “ the right of Congress to go down into the colleges aad inquire into all the acts and facts connected with their work.” But when made a member of the Commission he deliberately refused to investigate the fraudulent f recesses by which Haves obtained the lectoral votes of Louisiana and Florida. As a member of Congress he asserted that the law meant one thing and as a judge on the eight by seven Commissionhe maintained that it meant another thing. On the Federal election laws James A. Garfield presents “a most distressing figure.” In a momentary display of fairness he suggested an amendment to these laws to the effect that the Deputy Marshals should be selected by the Federal courts from both political parties. The suggestion was adopted by the Democratic Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and incorporated in the bill. But when Thersites Conger, Frye and other stalwarts lifted all_.__a_ 1_i_ rt_i? .1.1 a > 1 1 •

J VJIMUDIU WOOCITOU 111>9 own amendment amid the derisive laughter of the house. Such is the insincere, inconsistent, double-faced and distressing figure that is presented before the people for President of the (Jnited States. The dupe of Oakes Ames, the tool of Shepherd and Parsons, selling the influence and power of his official position for a “fee,” there has hardly been an important question in Congress during his public career upon which he has not shifted sides. He has,been for and against a protective tariff. He has rkcn against the extravagant system appropriating annually millions of public money for rivers and harbors and has voted for the hills. He has spoken in favor of amnesty and voted against it. He has admitted that the Federal election laws are partial and unjust and yet has refused to assist in amending them. He has denounced the spirit of sectionalism displayed bv Republican leaders in Congress ana upon the mere exhibition of the party lash he has been driven into silence. A more distressing figure than that of James A. Garfield was never presented in the political history of the country. —Harrisburg (Pa.) Pairiot. -The Presidential battle now being waged throughout the United States differs from all other campaigns in this remarkable fact: The charges, and they are serious ones, made against the Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates owe their paternity to members of their own party, and every one of them is supported by Republican testimony. They are of a character involving the gravest of offenses, and, if true, as the evidence shows them to be, cover General Garfield and Mr. Arthur with crime as the leper is covered with sores. These changes, involving salary grabbing. Credit Mobilierism, selling influence as a member of Congress to a corrupt ring to fleece, the Government, made against Garfield, and of corruption and of a profligate administration of the affairs of the collectorship of the city of New York, made against Arthur by President Hayes and his Secretary at the Treasury, John Sherman, for which Arthur was dismissed from office, all oom.e from Republicans, and are all proved to be well sustained by Republican witnesses. —Cincinnati Enquirer.

POLITICAL POINTS. —The Republican organs are beginning to parade the names of distinguished Republicans who will vote for Gartield. This is a most elot uent tribute to the magnitude of the ex xius from the Radical camp. ——Senator Pendleton, giving full voight to his apprehensions and Baking fu.\ allowance for the over confidence of enthusiastic friends, has reached the conclusion that Ohio will1 this year be a Democratic State. -When Human erected a gallows for Mordecai and was hanged thireon he Was the victim of just such a cruel joke as the fates have played 01 the Republican newspapers in the matter of the Hancock letter to Sherxr an.— Washington ffcsf. _ —John W. Forney writes to William H. English, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, that tl e accessions to Hancock and English are so numerous, the evidence of the break in the old line so strong, that he shall not be surprised if Pennsylvania is carried for the Democratic' candidates. -Senator Bayard thinks General Hancock's letter to Sherman “will dispose forever of the pretense that he is a mere soldier, a ‘namby-pamby’ sort of man, with no ideas concerning politics and civil government.” He says: “General Hancock’s views of public duty form tbe most decided contrast to those of Grant. ‘How can I, a soldier, best sustain a government of law?’ always seemed to'be Hancock’s inquiry. ‘How can I, a soldier, best asse ft my military power, despite the restraints of law?’ seemed to be the usual thought with Grant.” -Like ail the public utterances and acts of General Hancock, his letter to General Sherman bears the unmistakable stamp of devoted patriotism. If it had been written with an accurate foreknowledge of subsequent events to this date; it, when General Hi .ncock sat down in St. Louis in Decomber, 1876, to pen that communication, he had known that it was to be b:-ought out in August, 1880, and that he vrould then be the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, he could not possibly have so framed it as to be of jTreater advantage to his party. It is a splendid Democratic campaign documents, one of the best ever presented and eannot

fail to have a very demoralizing effect on his political opponents.—Wasimgton Post. -About the time that General Hancock fought the battle of Gettysburg, General Gartield turned his back to the front and went into p ilitics. About the time General Hancock issued order No. 40 at New O leans, Mr. Garfield was negotiating with Oakes Ames for the shares in Credit"Mobilier, on which he afterward received a cash dividend of three hundred and twenty-mine dollars. Some of our Republican contemporari as are fond of drawing comparisons between th* careers ol the two .candidate j. “as soldiers and as statesmen ’* Cheae coincidences cannot fail to afford them interesting material for study.—if. 7. A Street and Simple Catechism. To comfort our unhappy Radical contemporaries we magnanimously make them a present of the following sweet and simple Garfield catechism, adapted from a recent English contribution to the purity of elections: Q.—“Haveyou had considerable experience of Congress?” A.—“I blush to say I have.” Q.—“In spite of all your experience, you still retain the guileless innocence of youth?” A.—“Ido.” Q.—“Have you retired from defending your action in the case of He Golyer —hrst, on high public grounds, and secondly, to save the feelings cf your friends and supporters generally?” A.—“ I have. ’ Q.—“Your life, I understand, has been singularly blameless?” A.—“It has.” Q.—“ Have you ever met a nan of higher moral tone than yourself:” A.-—“Never.”*' Q.—“Were the De Golyer case tried before Judge Swayne, would aiy witness who reflected in any way on your conduct commit perjury?” A.—“He would.” Q-—“Have you ever felt a sordid emotion?” A.—“ Never.” Q.—“ In the whole course of your political career have you ever had an unwnrthv fchnnodit.?”

A.—“Never." Q.—“Is yours a simple and confiding nature?’ A.—“ It is." Q.—“I believe, however, you are a connoissieur in pavements?" A-—**I am." Q.—“As an expert, then, j re you prepared to assure the Court that no charge of irregularity can with justice be brought against your action in the De Golyer matter?” A.—“I can give that assurance." <J.—“Permit me to put one general question. Are you the greatest, vrisest, noblest and purest of men?” A_“I am.’i—N. Y. World. Slips Up for Want of Proof, It is singularly unfortunate tht.t every charge the Republicans bring against General Hancock slips up for <vant of proof, or turns ih’his* favor. They declared that his famous Order* w.is. written by Judge Black, who, wien he heard of it, wrote from Europe that he never saw the paper until he read it in print, and that he had nothing to do with its composition. That h) hung Mrs. Surratt in cold blood was c harged by all the Republican organs; but the counsel of that unfortunate woman declares over his own signature that she was sacriticed to Republican malignity and vengeance, General Hancock doing all he could do to have her rep rieved, and performing his soldierly duty with sincere regret Then it was asserted that he wrote to General Sherman in 1876 declaring that Tilden was elected, and that, should Tilden take the Presidential oath, he should obey him as President. This false and malicious charge has been utterly refuted by General Hancock's remarkable private letter to General Sherman, which but for this charge would never have been published. It is one of the be3t campaign documents evsr written, and will lead thousands of Republicans to vote for him. Really ff\e Republicans sure in a bad fix. They Cannot say anythi ig true against Generil Hancock, and any lie they throw at him rebounds with damaging effect upm themselves. Perhaps they wilt lean discretion from painful experience and let him alone. It certainly Would bo to their interest ©clear up the damage ^reputation of thoi r candidate instead of inventing lies t^^unst General Hancock.—.N. YExpress

Xi» Yery Roet tf ike Matter. General Hancock in his references to civil service reform hits happily avoided the devious and unsatisfactory ways of the politician, and without halting or turuing- has reached the very root of the matter. “Hie basis of substantial, practical civil service reform,” he says,“must tir&t be established by the people in filling the elective offices.” We believe one of our esteemed local contemporari es thinks this reform will be among the things never to happen if it waits for such a revolution. We mightsay with greater truth and pertinence that eiyii service reform will never be anything more than an empty sound until this more fundamental reform has been brought about, and we think our esteemed contemporary would be in much better business, if, instead of surrendering to these pessimistic doldrums, it should shake itself and show how such a reform could and should be brought about. In a Republican form of Government the people must cooperate in any practical plan of reform, or it must soon be a failure, and any treatment of this great question that leaves them out of account, or intimates that the ultimate responsibility does not lie with them, is false and dangerous teaching. Mr. Hayes made his great mistake here. He issued a single civil service order, but hi? party felt no interest in it, or responsibility for it, and he was soon forced to violate it himself and make his sonorous professions the lest and sport of the world. He should have began farther back. Now, as a practical man in close sympathy with the whole spirit of our institutions. General Hancock has Slaced this matter where it belong?. Ee does not intimate that the purpose or effort of the administration to purify and strengthen the civil service should be relaxed in the slightest, but the basis must be established bv the people m filling the elective offices. We are the more disposed to applaud and rejoice in this clear elucidation of a great duty, from the fact that in the past and especially since this eampaignmpened, we hpve laid great and sincere stress upon the importance of nominating the best men upon local and State tickets, as we'd as upon National tickets- While this has been especially intended for Democratic readers, we should be profoundly grateful were the Republicans to profit

VI O UAtC UCOU see that in this advice, a large portion of the Democratic press, ana many of the Democratic leaders have joined, not by negative assent, but by positive declaration. If the Republicans reject any sfech counsel, and scoff at the plan, it is equivalent to an admission that all their references to civil-service reform are meaningless, and insincere, or else that they expect to accomplish the miracle of drawing pure water from a polluted fountain. The Republicans may settle " ' point as-»t-watchword the Democratic iftaits ’be:" “2%e husit M udutamtin form- »nusff"4 _ petmle in fitting^ Bo-itonPc^'t. Partially Excusable. On the whole, perhaps, the hatred entertained by Republicans for Southern Democrats is partially excusable. They really arc a most aggravating lot. Not content with voting the Democratic ticket and electing Democrats to office, the perverse creatures persist in thwarting Republican designs in the most unbearable and disheartening manner. .Onlv s, few days ago one of the most promising Republican schemes ever devised was brought to naught by these disobliging Democrats. There was a meeting of colored Republicans at Biackville, South Carolina; and as there were over four thousand present it was conhdently hoped the Democrats of the vicinity would break up the meeting. Some of the more sanguine ventured to expect that a colored man or two would be shot; and even, the gloomies* of Republican prophets predicted a case of rail-riding, and another of tar and feathers." Singularly enough the Democrats’didn't come to the scratch. They were present in great numbers,« but they obstinately persisted in listening attentively to what the speakers had to say, and in the most pusillanimous manner possible, refrained even from jeering. It was frightfully discoursing to the Republican organizers of the meeting. The speakers were prodded up to sharper abuse of the Democracy and their candidates, and the crowd

roared r its loudest for Garfleld and Arthur. And there those despicable and aggravating Democrats stood all the time, -without pulling a pistol ot throwing an egg, or even interrupting a speaker. If they had only groaned it would have been something; for the Republicans could have flown to the telegraph office and dispatched the news north that their meeting had been broken in by a Democratic mob. But they wouldn't even groan. They absolutely had the brazen effrontery to stay through the entire meeting, until the speakers and hearres had howled themselves but of breath, without giving the faintest sign of disapproval. No wonder the Republicans are discouraged when Democrats at the South act in so exceedingly unsatisfactory a manner. How in the name of all the Republican candidates at once is the Northern outrage market to be supplied if this tiling is permitted to go on? The old-fashioned method—the Frances Thompson and Eliza Pinkston style— has been tried too often. It will not do any longer. The people want something fresh. They want an actual, blood-cartiling, soul-harrowing outrage, with real martyrs, whose wrongs will stand elimination and cross-examina-tion. And how can they have this if the Southern Democracy ruthlessly refuses, as it did at Blackville, to play the part assigned it?—Detroit Free Press. -Change for the sake of change is to be the motto of thousands of voters this fall. Twenty years of rule by one party is all that the people will endure, via especially when that partytakes'the last four years of rule by a fraud u nparalleled in the history of the country. But powerful as this motto, “ Chauge for the sake of change” is, It is no tess powerful than the desire of the people to have the books at Washington overhauled, and the state of the accouc s made public.—Oswego (K F.) PitUadi um. 1 —Republican papers are abusing the iemocrats for nominating that disfignu shod soldier, General Hancock, for Pre^ dent, arguing that there cab be no immunity of interest between a Union soldier and the Democratic party. The Republican editors are obstinate They refuse to be comforted I We almost despair of pleasing them. — [ Szehai je.

FACTS AND FIGURES. ' f —.— * ■ ■ ***, —It requires over eleven and a half miles of travel to plow one aore. —The injury done by insects in the United States is estimated at $200,000(« 000. —A hen may be calculated to consume sixty pounds of grain in a year find lay fifteen pounds of eggs. " —It is estimated that thofexas edttW drive of 1880 will realize to that State about $3,000,090. —A farmer in East Baton Rouge, La., realised this year $1£0 on an aero of ground planted in watermelons. —Seventy different species of vegetables, with over 400 varieties are grown* in the gardens of the United States. I —It is estimated that the money paid for Texas cattle during the past five years amounts to $180,000,000. —The St. Louis Cotton Exchange' offers a premium of $300 to the largest shipper of cotton from Texas to that* market this season. ‘ —The new P&vonia Elevator, in Jersey City, rests on 0,000 piles driven into the water and soft earth. The elevator occupies an area, superficially, qf $0.; feet by 360, and is 136 feet in height. —California expects to have 700,000 tons of wheat for export The harvest is now progressing. Oregon reckon*on an increase of 130,000 tons surplus - over last year, or a surplus for export of 275,000 to 300,000 tons* ’ .1 —Four-fifths of the air is nitrogen, and it has been asserted by an, agricultural chemist that the niau who first makes the nitrogen of the air available as a fertilizer at a small cost will be the greatest material benefactor the world ' ever produced. . *■■; —Hawley, Pa., is building great silk mitts which are toemploy 1,000 hands. The main building is to be 460 feet long, 150 feet- broad and five stones high.; A. splendid stream of water will furpish the power, and itis expected thatpinr» silk, and of a finer quality, wiltbe turned out by this mill than at any other in the United States. —The threshing-machine was first invented by Andrew Meikle, of tTyningham. East Lathian, Scotland, in 1786. It is true that attempts hail been made by Mcnziers in 1733 and twirling in 1758, but they proceeded on a wrong principle, and were abandoned. In 1828 Samuel Lane, of Maine, U. S. A.,

uvu V Ub tVti ami tmcdiim. —The United States are said to consume more raisins than all Europe. The market is supplied by Spain, and the varieties called “ Malaga” are considered the best. The annual yield of Malaga grapes is from 2,450,000 to 2,500,000 boxes of twenty pounds oachOf this vast quantity the United States takes one-half, and pays a duty of two and one-half cents a pound. *% —The largest botanical depot in the »* world is said to be at Statesville, N. C., ' Inhere the firm which controls It has < now in stock 1,700 varieties of refits.*, herbs, barks, seeds, dowers and mosses and all sorts of plants for herbariums, • in quantities of from 5 > -W*35,000 pounds' of each kind * They pay th«rcoilectors, who are mainly Chorokees, either in cash or goods, and last year v disposed in this way of $400,000 worth of merchandise, shipping 1,800,000 1 pounds of roots and “ yarbs.'” —— ---1 i WIT AND WISDOM. —When the phonetic spelling ooniiei^ into nse it will always be rite in order to rite rite, to rite rite, rite.—Andrea?’* Queen, i ' ,,; —Presidential candidates have as many .lives as a cat, or will have before all their biographers get through. — Lowell Courier. —Observing men have noticed that the hair on the forehead of a chimpausee is always parted in the-middle.— New Orleans Picayune. —A Whitehall man has discovered a way of instantly turning sweet milk into fresh butter. He feeds it to a goat. Patent applied for.—Times. —During this weather, there is nothing hotter than the woman with a dusting-broom who is wearing herahli out doing nothing.—Atlanta Constitution. ' —A Western journal heads an* artiele: “ A lunatic escapes and marries a widow.” Escapes, eh? We should say he got caught.—Binghampton Bepubliean. —** Look heah. Squire, dare a niggah in Galvestou What’s boen sassin’ me; supposing I jes maul de life outen itim?” The lawyer replied: “You would be apt to get vour heck

stretched.” “flow, boss, you is jokin’. What do white folks care for one niggah moah or less now de census is done tuck?”—Galveston News. —Either we have got into a regtilar resort of dies, or dies are far more-nu-merous and tenacious this season than / they have been since the days of Pharaoh. Darkening is na bar to their progress. When a room is so darkened that they cannot see to move about, two of them club together and hire a tirefly to travel with them. — Danbury News. —Mother, do all angels have wings?” “Yes, my dear.” “Will 1 be an angel and have wings when I die?” “Certainly, my’love.” “Golly, what a big pair Mrs. Thompson' must have; I should think they must be as large as , the sails of Uncle Tom’s yacht-” Mrs. Thompson, it may be stated in explanation, is a lady who weighs in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds'.— Boston Courier. ^ —A few days ago a young man in business was greeted by one of the clergy in this city, and was congratnlated on his new’ venture in business. In the course of the conversation the clerical brother expressed his opinion as not in favor of the young man keeping open on Sunday. “No,” said the young man, “I don’t want to keep open on Sunday, but will probably have . , to. I work hard all the week, and would like to shut up on Sunday, because it’s the only day .in the week that I can have to myself to go hunting and fishing.” The clergyman moved on.—• Rochester Post. —A bald-headed man is refined and-1 he always shows his skull sure. A good novel for bald heads to read -The Lost Heir. What does a bald-headed man say to his comb? We meet to part no more. Motto for a bald head--Bare - and fur-bare. However high a position a bald-headed man holds, he wulnever comb down in the world. The baldheaded man never dyes. Advice to bald headers—Join the ± idians, who .« are the: only successful hair raisers. What does eyery, bald-headed man put on his head? Hjs hat. You neversatr a bald-headed1 man with a low forehead. Shakespeare says—There’s a Divinity* that thape* our ends. Bald men are” the ooolest-headed men in .the world. Same laid men have hein.—Boston Transcript. -