Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 October 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. -TCompiled from Various Sources. PERSONAE AND POLITICAL. These was a monster Republican demonstration at Philadelphia on the night of the 23th. Senator Blaine was the principal orator of the meeting. J. B. Yeagley, Greenback candidate for Secretary of State in Indiana, has withdrawn from the ticket and announces that he shall act with the Democratic party. A call has been issued, signed by U. S. Grant, Commander-in-Chlef, for a Convention of the Union Veteran Soldiers and Sailors of the United States, to be held at Indianapolis, on Thursday, Oct. 7, 1880. President Hayes and party have gone to Oregon. Official returns of the Vermont election: Total vote, 70,709; , Farnham (Rep.), 47,894; Phelps (Dem.), 21,223; Heath (Greenb.), 1,378; scattering, 14; Farnham’s majority, 25,079. The Supreme Court of Indiana has overruled the petition for a rehearing in the case involving the validity of the Constitutional amendments. Judges Riddle, Warren and Howk were against reopening the case, and Judges Niblack and Scott in favor. The State election will, therefore, bo held in October. Thomas Allen, President of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Second Missouri District (St. Louis). It Is understood he will accept. Gen. Grant, Gen. Logan, Senator Conkling and ex-Senator Simon Cameron attended the great Republican demonstration at Warren, O., on the 28th. Gen. Grant presided at the main meeting and read an address equal in length to about one-half column of small newspaper type. Addressee were also made by ^Senators Conkling and Logan, after which all of these gentlemen and some others proceeded by special train to Mentor to call upon Gen. Garfield; where they spept about half an hour. The New York Democratic State Convention was held at Saratoga on. the 28th, the two factions harmonizing throughout in all the proceedings. The only candidate to be nominated was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, for which Charles A. Rapallo was chosen.

the , wreenDacKers oi tne second Illinois District (Chicago) have nominated Charles G. Dixon for Congress. The National Irish Republican Convention was held at Saratoga on the 27th. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the Republican National platform and the candidates for President and Vice-President. The Alabama Democratic State Conmittee has issued an address heartily indorsing Gen. Hancock’s recent letter in reference to Southern claims, pledging the party in that State to accept as final the results of the war, and guaranteeing a free and fair exercise of the franchise, etc. The New Hampshire Greenback Convention nominated full State and Electoral tickets and the delegates pledged themselves to support the National Greenback ticket straight. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. During the month of August 50,508 immigrants arrived in this country, mostly from European countries. It is now almost certain that the immigration this year will exceed 300,000. The largest previous immigration for any one year was in 1851, when it reached 251,000 •; The spinners’ committee at Fall River, Mass., have recommended a general strike in case the proposed reduction of wages is made effective. A late Berlin dispatch says: The Btrike amongst workmen here winch began recently with the carpenters, has now extended to turner!, weavers and other workmen, and is assuming a serious phase. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. , Washington Emory, an engineer, and James Menzie, a section hand on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, were instantly killed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler near Leadville on the 24th. Thr Louisville and Madison packet Maggie Harper exploded her steam-pipe on the night of the 25th. Lem. P. Bowyer, the engineer, was badly scalded, and in his agony Jumped overboard and was drowned. Five colored roustabouts were seriously scalded, two of them at least fatally. The wife of Benjamin Winn, Esq., who resides pear Plattsburgh, Mo., was returning home from a neighbor’s on horseback, on the 25th, when as she: alighted to open a gate near her house she was seized by a negro and subjected to the most horrible treatment. The culprit was tracked and captured by the neighbors, and hanged to a tree. He was employed on the Winn place. An excursion train from Sacramento ran off the track at the Oakland bridge, ditching the locomotive and tender and drowning the engineer. rr nL!__i_n J

JL If V V/IMVHgV VUUUIVU) Ult V\J and five years, have died from eating the seeds of a weed known as thorn-apple, or Jimson-weed. At Richmond, Va.» on the 28th, its '} the elephant known as Chief, belonging to John Robinson’s circus, was being removed from a freight car, the animal became enraged at his keeper, John King, and crushed him against a car, causing injuries from which he died within a few hours. 6. L. Smith, a sewing-machine agent p.t Warsaw, Ind. „won the heart of the handsome daughter of Morse Chaplin, a wealthy farmer living near that town, and induced her to forge a check on her father in his favor for $850. The money was secured before the fraud was discovered, and both parties were arrested and placed iin Jail. Smith was bailed out, but the father refused to give bail for his daughter, fearing she would elope with Smith. The following day Smith called at the Jail and was allowed to walk with Mila Chaplin in theback yard. They had not been there long when four pistol shots were heard, and when the Jailer’s family reached the yard the dead. bodies of- Miss Chaplin and Smith were discovered lying side by side, the smoking revolver still being in Smith’s hand. Smith had a wife and two children and was trying to get a divorce. Fatal results of blowing out the gas: James Forrester and wife, an aged couple of Laporte County, Ind., came to Indianapolis to attend the State Fair, stopping at tiie Pyle House. The next morning both were found unconscious In bed,but still breathing. The husband died soon after, and there waa bnt slight hope that the wife would recover. At the Burnett House, in Stroudsburgh, Pa., James Hanna and a male companion, from Oakland, were found dead in bed. Coroner’s verdict, death from suffocation, caused by blowing out Instead of turning off the gas. MISCELLANEOUS. Another Irish landlord, Loid Mountmorris. has been murdered, and one •of his tenant farmers, named Sweeny, has been arrested for having a hand in the commission of the crime. Sweeny had recently received notice to quit. Just previous to . »

his death Lord Mountmorris attended n meeting of magistrates, which passed a resolution calling on the Government to adopt coercive measures toward Ireland. Tho affair has created great excitement, and it i» believed the Government will adopt more stringent measures. A i.aw just passed and gone into effect in the Chickasaw Nation imposes a fins of not less than $500 nor more than $2,000 upon every native for every white man employed by him in taking care of and assisting in raising stock, with imprisonment of not less than one nor more than twelve months additional, at the option of the Court. An act has also been passed establishing the price of a license to marry- a native at fifty dollars. It has recently been developed that some time ago a package of $6,000 worth of bonds was abstracted from a desk in the Chief Clerk’s room, Second Auditor’s Department, Washington. An investigation satisfied the Secretary of the Treasury that the bonds were appropriated by Chief Clerk Herring, now dead. As near as can be estimated, the number of lives lost during the fiscal year of 1880, from different classes of accidents to which steamboats are subjected, will not exceed 185, against 177 in 1879. The Porte refuses to order the evacuation of Dulcigno and defies the Allied powers. Tbe condition precedent to any further negotiation is that the naval demonstration be abandoned. This has been refused, nnd as soon as Montenegro completes its preparation tbe battle will be opened. The Howgate expedition to the Polar seas has been abandoned for the present season. Political agitation is rife in the Scandinavian peninsula. The Norwegians want a republic. A correspondent of the London Times at Dublin says: The murder of Lord Mountmorris has excited feelings of alarm little short of a papic among the respectable classes. Party differences are for the time discarded in the presence of a common and imminent danger. The scene of the last murder is In a district which is the very center of the land agitation, and is the result of communistic conspiracy of the worst type. The country is fast drifting into anarchy. The arm of authority seems paralyzed, and the executive utterly helpless. Although at present the panic is felt most keenly by land owners, it is shared by the employers of labor, who see the growth of a refractory spirit among the subordinate class. Peaceable and well-dis-posed people are how Alarmed and anxiously look for some action on the part of the Government. ’ ’

r KAHR oGiKuit, a iormer lanu agent of the Burlington and Missouri Bailroad, has been arrested recently at Omaha, charged with haying defrauded large numbers of people in Michigan and in other States by selling themawotthless land certificates, It is said he has realized many thousands of dollars by his swindles. A fire at Fort Dodge, Iowa, destroyed the First National Bank and adjacent buildings valued at $100,600 and insured for $55,000. >. - Four inches of snow fell on the 25th ult. at Lookout Station, Union Pacific.. Railroad, in Wyoming. The steamer Fannie Tatum, from St. Louis for Paducah, ran on to a snag near Fort Chartres on the night of the 23th and sunk in eight feet of water. There were a number of passengers on board, among them several ladies. No lives were lost. It is reported from Glasgow that a plot has been discovered to blow up the Czar's new yacht, the Livadia, now fitting out for sea. The information came from St. Petersburg that the Nihilists had sent several emissaries to Glasgow with infernal machines, which were to be secreted among the vessel’s coal. The police authorities kept a sharp look-out for the alleged malefactors, but it is not stated that any arrests were made. The United States Circuit Court, at Louisville, has granted an injunction ret straining the postal authorities from enforcing the Department’s order prohibiting the delivery of letters to a local lottery company. z. »- Prof. Brown has officially reported to the Privy Council that the splenetic fever of the imported Texas cattle is not the same disease as the splenetic fever prevalent in Great Britain. Lisbon, Portugal, has been visited by a destructive conflagration. '( CONDENSES TELEGRAMS

The stage-coach running between Pierce City, Eureka Springs, Ark., was stopped about 17 miles south of the latter place, in broad daylight on the 29th, by six men wearing handkerchief masks and armed to the teeth. The driver, Eldridge, was commanded to halt at the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun. AY. H. Cfcampliu attempted to draw a revolver, when'he was fired on by one of the road agents, the bullet passing through his coat-sleeve. They then ordered the passengers, eleven men and one woman, but of the stage, and at the same time to hold up tlieir hands. One man did the ransacking while the other five kept guard. Mr. A. P. Man, First Assistant Engineer of the SU Louis and San Francisco Railway, was relieved of big gold watch and $270 in money; his clerk, W. H. Champlin, 'of about $175. In all they secured about $850. Two gentlemen threw their pocketbooks away, containing gome $1,500, but returned afterward and got them. The United States mails and Adams Express were not molested at all. After they had gone through every body they ordered the driver to skip end then walked leisurely Into the woods. A party of farmers started in pursuit of the robbers. The Democrats of the Second Illinois District (Chicago) have.nominated John F. Farnsworth for Congress. A negro was recently lynched near Fort Mason, Fla., for killing a white railroad boss. Two tribes of Canadian Indians, the Mandrills and Saltcaux, are said to be waging a war of extermination against each other. A large number have been killed on both sides. Sheri ff Gauthrkaux, ‘of New Orleans, is said to be a defaulter to the State for tax collections amounting to $150,000. Col. Hunt, Indian Agent at Wichita Agency, denies the report recently published that the Indians hare committed depredations on the .commissary stores at that peint. The safe in the County Treasurer’s office at Maryville, Marshall County, Kans., was recently broken open and a number of drifts and warrants belonging to the school fund and $800 in currency stolen. Payment of tie drafts, etc., has been stopped. Little Eva Mil ward aged four years, daughter of Mr. D. E. Mi vvard, of Keokuk, low:, was accidentally burned to death. While playing with some matches, her clothing was In some way iguited, and In a few moments she was entirely enveloped in flames. Gun. Garibaldi and. his son, Menottl, have both resigned their seats in the .tali m Chamber of Depu lies. They stated .hey were unable to act as Deputies in a conn ry where liberty to tiodder under foot.

k Brave Fireman Bescnes Two Men at «ie Bisk of Bis Life. The vicinity of Dearborn and South Water streets during the early hours of last evening was the scene of an exciting struggle between life and death, and the heroic members of Engine Company No 13 can with pride point to their work last nig at, whereby a father and son were resoued from a horrible death by suffocation. The feeling in the large crowd which had gathered was Intense while the struggle was unoertain, and when suooess came the feeling burst forth into “three oboers for the brave firemen.” At the foot of Dearborn street, between South Water street and the river. Is a shaft about sixty feet deep, where the gas-main la carried under the river. It was the duty of Alexander Glow, an old man employed by the Gas Company, to descend this shaft every socond day and pump the water from the main. Yesterday about four o’clock he went down luto the dark shaft as usual, bt^t did not wait long enough for tbe accumulated gas to escapo. While engaged at work he was overcome by the gas and foil half suffocated on the bottom. It was fully T:30 before his absence was notioed, and then the alarm was sent to the house of No. 13 near by. The firemen turned out with long ropes and lanterns. The condition uf the shaft was easily seen by the lantern which went out when about thirty feet down. Meanwhile a sou of the old man, J ames William Gow, a young man of nineteen, had arrived at tbe shaft. A rope was tied around his body, and, with a foreman named Shay, ho was lowered into the shaft. When the two were about twenty feet from the bottom a piercing cry was heard, and on pulling up, It was found that the boy had fallen from the rope, and that Shay was overcome with the gas. By this time a large crowd had gathered, and intense excitement prevailed. A daughter and two more sons had arrived anfi were nearly crazy with grief. Meanwhile the suffocating groans of the father and son could be heard from the shaft. No light could live in the shaft, and tho men were too weakened to grasp the ropes let down into the awful darkness. It soenred as If they must perish, with hundreds of willing hands above to help them, but not knowing how. The shaft on the other side of the river was opened, and this created a slight current of air. The lanterns went down a little further,hut the groans were almost dying out. Another son attempted to rescue his father and brother, but he, too, was brought up stilled. Finally some one had a good idea. A calcium light was procured from the Olympic Theater and its strong light was directed down the shaft. Then the crowd could see the father lying on his face, and his son with his face turned upward—both apparently dead. Making another test with the lanterns developed the faot that the shaft was being cleared or the deadly escaping gas. Then was the time for volunteers. There was a short silence, and then Lieutenant Thomas Pumphry, of Com

pany no. id, saw: "i ll go. A rope was fastened about bim, and, putting a silk hand* kerchief in his mouth, be rapidly descended the ladder loading down the shaft. His motions were watched eagerly. He fastened the tope about the boy. The crowd pulled eagerly, and the uncouscious boy was brought to the upper world. Then the hero Pumphry made another trip and similarly brought up the father. The son was easily brought to, and was found to have sustained but lew injuries, comparatively. The case of the father was more difficult. Ho had been four hours in the shaft and was absolutely tilled with gas. For a long time it was a struggle between life and doath. The Bremen chafed his hands, slapped bis bare l'ect, and partially restored him with cold water. Dr. Arndt finally arrived, and succeeded in reviving him sufficiently go allow of the remove* of the.*w<: to their home. No. 122 Kinzio street. Engine Company No. 13 has a hero.—Chicago Tribune. A Fatal Landslip. Ik the northern part of Bengal is a cool and sequestered resort called Naiua Tal. It is perched up among the hills and has loug been a speoial refuge during the etitling heats of the Hindostan summer for Englishmen of both the civil and military service. Many such residents have been wont to fly with their families on the approach of the parching weather of the extreme season and to find an asylum in the moist shades of Naiua Tal. A considerable mountain stream passes the spot on its course toward the (Sains, and a beautiful lake tempers the atmosphere hard by.. At Naiua Tal some of the most romantic episodes of Indian life have had their beginning and their end, and more than one novelist has chosen the plaoe as a scene for pictures pie incident and description. Such are some of the associations of Naina Tal’s past; but that its history will be embellished by similar passages in the future is scarcely probable. The ‘village, as wo just learn by telegraph, has been . absolutely overwhelmed; and it is even likely, if fears now expressed are confirmed, that Naina Tal will be obliterated from the face of the earth. The fate that has come upon this remote Bengal settlement, while a rare one, is by no means without precedent. A memorable example has been known in this country, and the name of Franopnia suggests its sad particulars. There is some likeness bet ween the two oases. But instead of lyiug at the foot of one or two mountains Naina Tal was surrounded by them. It might be described* as lying in a cup or basin; and was liable from its topographical position to sudden iuundution. It was due, no doubt, to a great rush of water that Naina Tal was destroyed. But the flood was only the indirect cause of destruction. It appears that rain began falling heavily there, as we read the dispatches, on last Friday morning, and that it continued to descend in prodigious torrents until Saturday afternoon. The gauge by that time showed a rainfall of twenty-five inches in forty hours.

me neighboring lake swelled to a threatening height. The river had become a cataract. Soon after twelve o’clock “there was a sullen roar and rumbling, followed by vast olouds of dust, and the whoio place shook. The lake rose In a moment far above Its usual height and swept in a massive wave toward the river, when an enormous ma3s of land came down, burying the hotel and the band of rescuers.” It appears that some of the visitors at the hotel had taken alarm in season and tied. Later on, when the rest were in imminent danger, a party was organized to save them; apd these were the “ rescuers" who, with the remaining guests, were thus smothered by the avar-’ lanche. Some thirty natives and an unknown number of visitors were included among the victims; and by the last advices the flood had not subsided but was devastating the whole surrounding country. The most terrible feature about this disaster has apparently lain in its unexpectedness. In parts of Italian Switzerland, In the high valleys of the Rhone, or at spots like the site of Briel, in Valais, where avalanches of snow have already occurred, it may be said that a danger signal Is always Hying, and people know what they have to look for. At any point ly'fng below and near to a possible glacial fraoturo such a chance of catastrophe is ever impending, and those who encounter It do so at their own choice and poril. Where, however, no such evil has heretofore been known its coming is more awful, in tbe degree that it ia unlooked for, and that its victims are totally unprepared either for flight or for any other means of protection. In the case of Naina Tal tho fatal mischief has obviously at the first thought been Imputed to a cataclysm merely; but It may be suspected that tbe tremendous rush of earth that buried the village was partly of a volcanic origin like the many minor earthquakes which during tbe current year have lioeu experienced at to many points of tho globe In both its western and eastern hemispheres.—hf. Y. Evening I\M. Dr. Hastings, of Boston, in speak* in? of religious joy and of singing as being the natural expression of that !oy, remarked that some congiegations iad so little of it that they had to hirepeople to do their singing.. “Why,” says he, “I would as soon think of hiiiiig a man tk> eat my breakfast.” The Chinese agriculturalist docs his. hair up in a French twist because he don't want to have his cue cumber the ground.

4 CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT, Governor Seymour’s Eloquent Pretest Against Republican Methods and Measures—A Return to the Government as Framed by our Fathers Essential to Our Country's Peace and Prosperity. Governor Seymour recently delivered a political address to his fellow-townsmeu of Utica, N. Y., from which we make the following extracts, regretting that want of space will not enable us to give in full the words of wisdom that fell from the lips of the *‘old man eloquent.” Governor Seymour said: “ It must not be forgotten that this Government is no longer the simple machinery it was in the early days of the Republic. The bucolic age of America is over. The interests the Government has to deal with are no longer those of a small number of agricultural communities, with here and there a commercial town. They are the interests of nearly ufty millions of people spread over an immense surface, with occupations, pursuits and industries of endless variety and great maguitude; large cities with elements of population scarcely known here in the early davs, and all these producing aspirations and interests so pushing, powerful and complicated in their nature, and so constantly appealing to the Government rightfully or wrongfully, that the requirements of statesmanship demanded in this age are far different from those which sufficed a century ago." These are not my words. U 1 had uttered them, it would be felt that I was making a harsh charge agaiust the Administration. They are the statements put forth by one of * its officials, wbo speaks from his experience as a member of the Cabinet, and as one who formerly had a seat in the Senate. This declaration made by Mr. Schurz is official in character. It will bo so viewed in other countries, and will rejoice the enemies of our Govern* i- ment, while it mortilies the American people. The speech from which this extract was taken was made as a leading one in this canvass with a view* of directing its discussions. It w as received with applause by the journals of the Republican party, and by the leudingmembers of that organization. Its startling declarations force upon our minds the questions: Are the disorders, the temptations, aud the confusion which press our Government due to its character ana structure, or to the manner in which it is administered? No other subject so grave or so urgent is involved in the pending contest.»If it is true that the difAcuities in the way of an honest conduct of our affairs are so great that there must be other qualifications for the Presidency of the United States than those of intelligence, honesty, and patriotism; if our Government can only be carried on by an exceptional man, who may not always bq at our command, then we, have undergone a revolution. When we are told that a statesman is essential in the condition of our ntfairs, it disturbs our minds as when we are told that »t physician of unusual skill is needed in our families. It means disease and danger. They are usually the words we hear but a little while before the crape upon our doors informs our neighbors of the sad result. 11 our Government is so incumbered with the confusion growiug out of fifty millions of people and their varied interests and pur»uLa, it is clear that when that population within the lifetime of many before me shall have grown to one hundred million and the complicated interests of our country are multiplied four-fold, that our Government must be overwhelmed or there must be marked reform in its conduct. This is not a remote or uncertain danger. It is one that we must confront now; it already taxes our industry and endangers our prosperity. KYIT.K VOT IIITP Til TUP. n IViTlTITTIfiv

Is this state of affairs due to the structure of our Government, or to they way it lias been administered? It is not necessary at this ti.ne that we perplex ourselves with questions aoouf the way our Constitution was adopted. Whether it was formed by a'compact between the States, or by the people of States, or by the people in their primary individual capacity, it is enough for our purpose that it is an indissoluble bond of union; that it makes a General Government, and it recognizes the rights of States and of persons; that all these a»e equally sacred; tile dissolution of toe Union, ,destruction of States, usurpation of power, or the wiping out of lines wnieh limit their respective jurisdictions, would each be equally revolutionary and disastrous. When we read the Constitution we ffiuf.it makes the most conservative government in existence; that, beyond any other system, it protects the rights of persons, and of minorities. It mcas- * lifts OUt with calc.lnr terms the juriaxK^jkm oi* Congress, it gives to each citizen lights of person, of property, of conscience, and of speech, so well guarded that a single man may, with regard to them, defy the Government, altnough it may act under the impulses of every citizen but himself. It places the President, and Congress, and States under the supervision of the Judiciary. This is to act as an impartial arbiter between them, and upon all questions which concern the jurisdiction or the rights of cither. This method of defining and securing tile rights of all departments, and the liberties of the people, is unknown elsewhere in the world’s history. Even in Britain, proud of what it culls its constitutional law, and of the protection which is thrown around its citizens, Parliament can, if ii will, unjustly destroy life, liberty «nd prop erty; there is no power to resist its decrees.The Judiciary itself is but an instrument to carry out its purposes, however destructive of what they term their constitutional principles, Here, an unc institutional law is a dead law. ▲BUSES CAUSED BY THE REPUBLICANS. As to the evils, corruptions and abuses which are set iorth by Mr, Scliuns, let us see the positions held by leading Republicans with regard to them. What are those doing who have been intrusted with the duties of ad^ ministration and who seek to hold power? We have seen that the methods of those who have controlled public affairs and not the Constitution of the United States have caused the dangers which threaten us. in the first place the candidate of the Republican party openly expressed his joy that Congress has thus enlarged its jurisdiction, aud, to use his own phrase, he is glad “ that it gravitate* to ward more power*1 lie not only wishes the Government to guin this, but he is willing that if should do so by indirection and subtle construction. He does not say as he should do if he seeks a change in the character of our Government that it should be made by open and direct amendments, but he tries to bring it about by the, use of doubtful phrases, fi speak_paiticularly about his position, as he is now the exponent of the great party which has placed him in nomination for the Presidency. The leaders in the canvass on that side are those that hold places as Senators or as Cabinet Ministers, or important positions i under the present Administration. All of them in fact, and in some form, ask that their powers should be increased by taking from the people some of their home rights. They say m effect, Give to us your rights of making ! laws for yourselves; we can take care of your interests better than you can. Every demand i tor jurisdiction for-tne General Government j is a demand for the surrender of rights by the people in their towns, their counties or their -tates. Mr. Garfield openly expresses his sat* | isfaction and his desire, if lie is elected Presi- : dent, that the Government should have more power than it had when Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Jackson filled the Executive Chair. He says there has been a gain and that there will be more by force of gravitation ; not by the popular will, not by changes m the Constitution in a regular way, but that authority, patronage, and power will add to themselves, will by their weight increase and grow until they are to the full measure of bis desires. He rejoices to see this done in a wav against which

GEORGE WASHINGTON WARNED TOD in lii.s farewell a lfiress, which was submitted to Alexander Hamilton and other statesmen before be gave it to the American people: “ It is important, likewise, that the habits of . thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with itsadmtaisi ration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in tlie exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus tocre ate, whatever form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the publio weal against Invasion by others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern; some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes, ro preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, In the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong, let It be corrected by an amendment in the way the Constitution designates. But etthere be ho change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapo n by which Iree governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can, at any time, yield." If I had not stated that these were the words ofGeorgeWasbington.it would be thought I was Indulging in a personal attack upon Ur. Garfield, so severe are, they upon his methods and the precedents he would make. Prominent as a Republican speaker is Mr. Schurx. When he told of the state of affairs at Washington we looked for a demand for strong and stem dealing with public evils. But he glides oil into a suggestion more hurtful to Mr. Gar-. field in the minds of thoughtful men than any attack made upon him by his political opponents. He intimates that, as Mr. Garfield hits neen at * aahington, where these corruptions nave grown up, he has become a statesman and is the best man to deal with them. Another member of the Cabinet, Ur. Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, takes a different view of tee state of affairs from that gtv■n bv his colleague. He dwells upon the husine8ss prosperity of our country. Overlooking the industry of our people, the favorable s. asons that have rewarded thel labors with ample harvests, the demand for our products rom other countries he claims for the Administration the gratitude of our people for all their blessings. I have no unkindly feeling for Mr. Sherman; I regret that he does himself » wrong when he is

_ UNGRATEFUL TO GOD and Unjust to the laborers of the land. It Is not the statesmanshij> of the Cabinet, but the statcsuiatu-h p of the plow, blessed by a fruitful season, that gives us our growing wealth. Jsot the skill hi the Trea^ry Department, but of mechanics aud manufacturers, that make the spt iugs of our prosperity; not the talk* in Congress, but the toil of laoor in all its varied helds. In anqfther respect he does himself a wrong. He does not w arn our people of the danger which the change of seasons may make. He does not, as he should, admonish tnem tnat at this time, when money is abundant, men should throw olf the burdens of debt and extricate themselves from positions of peril it tunes should change. He teaches the false afiu mischievous doctriue that government policies, and not honest toil and frugal care, that the schemes of the brain, not the sweat of the brow, give competence to men. Much has been said about the absurdity of fiat money. How mucu more absurd are Mr. Sliermau*s teachings of hat prosperity. In this direction Mr. Sherman outstrips Dennis Kearney. NATIONALISM. The points most conspicuous in the speeches and journals of the Republican party are, hi st, that this is a Nation, and next, this election is a contest between the Northern and Southern States, in which a victory wili^be a great vain to the former party. We charge that the denunciations of the South are used to mask their designs to gee jurisdiction over all the Union, and mainly over the interests and people of the North, as they are the most important and varied; that the term Nation is selected because it is a word of obscure and indefinite meauing, and if it is sub tituted for the legal and proper title of Government, it Will enable them to make changes in its character hurtful to the rights of the people and disastrous to the prosperity of their business and industrial pursuits; that the mischief it will create will not be for the remote future, but that they are pressing upon us now, and will v be left in their full force irom this time on unless they are averted by the results of the pending elections. - It is a marked and conspicuous fact in the political discussions the pa»t four years that the Republican leaders have sought to bring into use the words Nation and Nationalism when speaking of our country. These have been heretofore used without any special significance, as terms generally applied to different divisions of the human race into communities governed by some foi ms of law, and in this sense we have used them to avoid the repetition of the term Uuiou, u uited States, or General Government. But they have now become the shibboleths of the Republican party and of all who have schemes for which they wish to gain public support at the seat of Government. While the men who use t. ese terms never define them, their very obscuiity serves the purpose of covering their ultimate objects, and at tae same time allowing all who have political theories inconsistent with our Constitution to feel that they favor their views. In its primary sense the word Nation means those of common origin, and applies most aptly to the smaller diwsions of tribes or of those of common lineage. In this more correct significance it is certainly not applicable to our country, whose population is made up of mixed races from all quarters of the world. In its more common use it signifies political divisions, ranging from the lowest to the most elevated political organ! zation. When, therefore, it is said we urea Nation, the term gives no idea of the cliarac-* ter of our own Government, but it leaves ev$ ery one to infer what he pleases of its signing canoe. *

OBSCURE AND UNMEANING AS IT IS, it was adopted with the solemnity of a Congressional resolution, as a term which told of the power of our General Government. In 1876 a res ilution was offered which declared, among other things, that the people of the United States constitute one Nation. All of the Republican members voted for this, as if it throw some light upon the character of our Union. So. far is it from doing this that it simply tends to make that obscure which was plearly stated in our Constitution. There is •something in&tlie words United States, the Union, the General Government, which is in conflict with the purposes of Mr. Garfield and his friends. They do not tell us distinctly what they aim at, but we find that those who seek for more jurisdiction use the term Nation, or Nationality, whenever they have occasion to speak of the jurisdiction at Washington. We always find that the men who use the word—and many like Senator Biaine love to call it a Sovereign Nation—are in favor of a different construction of the Constitution than has heretofore prevailed. Mr. Garfield openly states this wkeivhe says that the uj mynaMtuOP aie growing m strength, and he rejoices that our Government is gravitating to inore.power. We find, too, that they favor the plans of that distinguished stutesniRn of gaining jurisdiction by constructions put upon the words of the Constitution. As they do not like, at this moment, to develop all their plans, which would excite alarm particularly at the North, to mask their purposes aud to divert attention by exciting passions and prejudices, they use the word as far as they can in connection with sectional controversies, so tnat it may be felt they only have in view the strength of the Union. It is this idea which gives tlieir phrases a measure of favor with the Republican party. They also take great pains in their discussions to cany the idea that Nationality m**ans souietning favorable to the interests of the North. We charge that the purposes of the Republican leaders ARE IN CONFLICT WITH THE CONSTITUTION; that they endanger the peace, the order, and the safety of the Union. They draw to the National Capitol hordes of men who have Elfish and corrupt objects, who teiflpt officials to violate duty ktbm motives of ambition and greed for gold. They ijppair the interests and prosperity of different sections of our Union, by laws framed by men ignorant upon the subject upon which they act, and by legislation not only in conflict wbh the letter of the Constitution but with i s spirit and the genius of all our political institutions, both local and general, i have already oriefly sketched the history and features ot the Constitution. I have set forth, in the l*nguage of Mr. Scliurs, the evils which now prevail about the Capi- i tol, growing out of the various and complicated subjects which are improperly carried there for legislation. I bhv© stated tlfat the Republican leaders seek to increase this evil state of things by widening the jurisdiction still more, so that the increase of our population, the growth of all its business interests, so far from giving ns greater security, will only create more complication, more disorder, more difficulties. We charge that those who seek covertly to bring about these results are animated by selfish purposes of ambition, love of power, or lust for gain, which make them indifferent to future cohseqtlences if they can reach the object of their desires. Good Republican friends, we pray yon do not indulge in sectional hates; but it you will be led into such warfare at least look and see that you are to suffer more than those you seek to injure. Do not shut your eyes to the fact that, while the advocates of Nationality have much to gain, you have muoh to lose by their policy. You will find they are talking for themselves, and that THE CONTEST WITH THE SOUTH IS A

under cover of which you are warred upon. It must not be thought that the changes which men seek to make in the character of our Government by the use of the words Nation and Nationalism, and by the constrnctions which they mean to put upon them, relate only to the theory of politics; that their influences are too uncertain and remote to be ot immediate concern. They affect us now. They not only threaten but work disastrous results to the commerce of our country, teethe interests of the farmers of the Western States, and to the business prosperity of the whole country. We know that cheap transportation has led to the sale of our farm products In Europe, and has lifted all kinds of business from the depression which a short time since wa&felt by all pursuits. The ability to send what we make and raise to the markets of the world atcheap rate, is of more importance to theNorththanto theSonth. Theproductsof the latter are of a kind that do not suffer from the competition of other countries. Europe must have the cotton of the South. Increased eost of transportationdoesnotpreventtheirsate; it adds to the consumer. The farmers nndmanufacturers of the North have to compete with those who make or raise the same products in the markets which we seek to gain. A small difference in the cost of carrying will prevent our grain and provisions from going abroad. But a few years since, thesccharges were such that we could not export many things which we can now sell at a profit. Whoever will examine the rates for carrying eight or ton years ago, will see how they cut off all sales in a large way to European countries. We must bear in miud that last year the exSenses of the General Government, after denoting all that was paid for pensions, or for interest or principal of the public debt, was more than one hundred and tweutv-six millions. TJiis was for the ordinary expenses of Government. This great increase of expenses has grown out of its increase of Jurisdiction over subjects which can be more wisely and economically administered at their homes. With all the confessed difficulties set forth by Mr. SohuiY growing out of the pushing and varied interests at Washington and in the face of increased taxation, the Republican leaders are urging more Jurisdiction with more taxation and more confusion. The ways in which the Government collects its revenues conceal their full sums from those who pay them, but they tell none the less in their results upon their property. You will find these taxes on the sugar in your teacup, in the clothing of your family, in the medicines of your sick, in the varnish on the coffins of your dead. By general consent they are levied upon articles of consumption. This has the advantage of giving protection to home industries, if it is not carried too far. If they are made too burdensome they destroy home productions as they add to their cost. While we cheerfully pay in this wny for all necessary expenses of Government, we protest against making them needlessly expensive. Already the amount paid by New York for its support is about twice the cost of the Stale Government. In making this statement I do not take into account any sums for pensionsor for payment of interest and principal of the public debt. The expenses at Washington after ufaking these deduction are, as nearly as I can learn, more than twice the cost of the thirty-eight States of the Nation, yet Mr. Garfield and other Republican officials seek more Jui Isdictlon, more cost, more taxation under the shadowy phrase of Nationalism.

] They ask that they shall be intrusted with ' more power, more patronage, and the disj tribution of larger sums of money drawn from i the people in unequal proportions and by ex* ! pensive methods. THE POSITIONS OF GARFIELD AND HANCOCK CONTRASTED. I beg our Republican friends to look at the attitude of Mr. Garfield with regard to the Constitution, and see if it is one that shows loyalty to its provisions, it is the charter of our rights anu liberties. He has on many occasions sworn to uphold it. 0n the 4th of March next he will, as a Senator troin Ohio, t*ke a solemn oath to support its provisions. The Senate was organized to assert and defend the letter and its spirit. D >es the conduct of Mr. Garfield accord with these oaths? He avoids the use of the titles it gives the Government. These were selected to show its character and object. He uses in a marked way words the framers of the Constitution rejected. and shuns those they selected. W hat could be thought of a cletgymen who should substitute for the grand, clear tones of the Bible, vague and unmeaning words which obscure the law of Christian life? Yet in this way Mr. Garfield treats the law which makes the lif»* of our U aion. In view of his efforts to change the Constitution by substituting construction for its language, you doubt if, in his oath of office, he swears for or at the Constitution. You wonder what he seeks, which is rebuked by the title of “Uuited States,’* the *‘Union,”the **General Government.” What leads him to dwell upon the words “Nation” or “Nationalism,” which are we »k, obscure, and trivial? Let us see how Mr. Garfield looks at his iuterest and position. We can give his ideas almost in his own words when lie communes with hinist If. He says: “ i am to be a Senator from Ohio for six years. Hamilton was right when he said that Senators should hold for life. I am glad that liis opinions grow in favor. He did not like our Constitution, but said everything dependedupon the way it was construed. This heavy volume or my table, called the Civil Ust, shows the names of more than seventy thousand men paid from the Treasury’. This does not include the soldiers or sailors. * I am glad to see we are gravitating toward more power.’ The Senate; of which l am a member, gives most of these men their places directly or indirectly. They depend upon continuation by us ol the President's nominations. In view of this fact, he usually sends in the names of those we want. If lie does not, we throw them out. While large numbers of those in the Civil List are not acted upon by our body, yet as a rule they* bold under those we confirm, so they all look to us for support. If we can make the Civil List up to a hundred and fifty thousand, we shall be able to hold our places for life. The things mo9t iu i he way’are the words of the Constitution. I have thought much about them. John Quincy Adams once wrote some poetry in which he put in the month of Mr. Jefferson these lines: “ * If we can not change the things I swear we’ll change their name, sir.* "The troublesome terms iu the Constitution are the ‘United States,* the ‘Union.* I They tell of States and other rights than those controlled by Congress. I do not like the words General Government, as it tells of other I Governments and States; there are some terms such as Nation and National, which those w no made the Constitution would not have in it. They were kept out by unanimous vote. They a: e vague and do not show what is meaut by their use. 1 want them for the very reason tiiat led the Convention to strike, i them out. If we get our people to use them kthey will fall into the habit of looking to other Governments than our own for usages and laws. We have got this practice under way. In 18G6 all our party in the House of Repre

vo • v»> « iui u cuivuiu I^OVIUUVU vuaa I ours was a Sovereign Nation. We all w6re grave faces when we (lid this. It taught us as much about our Government as if to show the prerogatives of the President we had with equ$ •.solemnity declared that ho was an individual. The world is full of nations. There are many hundreds of them, of all kinds, from the Sandwich Islands up to the Russian Empire. Their habits and u>ages range from those of the King of Dahomey, who kills iv few men each day for his health’s sake, to those of the Queen of England, who leads the quiet life of a good woman. There is nothing that Nations do not do in the way of law-making, and no one can define their character as a class. The word Nationalism has different meanings to different men. In due time, if we are firmly seated, in power, we can tell the public what we mean by it ; our definition will bS* that we want more jurisdiction for Government; this means more cost for more men to do more rlijtift*}. Tile additions^ roada ta nfh*i.i>ta. wni give to SeUratv *s more power; p&tronngfe and wealth. T will use these words. Nation and National, as o ten a3 I can. I will strew them through all my speeches and letters. They are now the shibboleths of our party, and of all who have schemes before Congress. They sound well, v nd many think they lift us up to a higher rank as a people f,o be* put in the list of tribes ai d of barbate us or uncivilised Nations* But wemiust take care that the people do not get alarmed at the idea of more cost and more taxes* We have the most to fear from those of the North, for in nine of their great States t hei e aiv more than half of the people f the l at ion. But thev^have only eighteenSenators out of twenty-six* It was unfortunate hat we told them m debate that these States paid three-quarters of the taxes levied by Government. We must keep these facts from their minds. We must stir up the old bate of the South and make them feel that while Nationalism will help them, it will hurt those in tire Southern section.” These plain wor ls give you the theories of Mr. Garfield and his fiiends about this election, and their plans for the future. What they say and do si ows you what they aini at. Will it not be wise on the part of the great Republican parfy to learn and thiifc who will be the victors and wh > will bo the victims if they, have their o%(rn way iu this election? If they do not do this, they may full into the trap set for the people, and that we all shall feel that Nationalism is a curse. Turn from Mr. Garfield's letter of acceptance to that of Geu. Hancock. He bows to the decrees of the Constitution. He accepts its teachings, he is imbued with its faith; its terms t.» him are sacred; his earnestness shines out iu every line, and when he swears to support the Constitution in its letter and spirit we know he means to do so* Those who formed it not only chose fitting words to tell its meaning, but patriotism, like religion, ha* its symbols. No nag which floats in the wind of heaven tells so much as ours of the history and oh&racter of the Government it represents. Its stripes recall the names of the States which foug it the battle which gave us liberty, and which crowned their glorious work by forming c ur Union. The States are numbered by the tars which glitter upon its bitie field. He wh > would strike one star f roin its place of* who ’vould blend or blur these symbols, so that Jiey would tell only of abscureNationalism, has latent treason in his heart. U'.. nw> noWl nn tnnV n onldioK fni. /in*

standard-bearer. To whom can we intrust it.. with more safety lian to one who has had its deep and grand significance burnt into his very being by the fires of battle-fields? There is not a color upon its folds, there is not a stripe upon its emblazonry, there is not a star upon its azure ground, that has not been made sacrec to him. The appeal which drew him and his fellow-soldiers ir«»m their homes to the batt e-tield was to rally around the Stars and St ipes and to uphold the Union. They will never make our flag an unmeaning thing; t'ley will see to it that it remains a time emblem of the spirit of our Constitution. By the people's vote Gen. Hancock will bear this stai dara on to victory in this contest as he h as heretofore done on the bloody fields of b .ttle. He has learned from it the grand purr ases of the Constitution by teachings amid all the solemn lessons of war —by the inspirati ms of the battle-field,by the sad and solemn aspects of the blood-stained earth and the dying groans of men when the struggle was ended. He has learned the great lesson of statesu ansliip, noi amid scenes ol party strife, not in an atmosphere tarnished by personal ambi ion or schemes of plunder, but where Washington and Jackson learned the lesson of duty to their country' and ol obedience to its laws and Constitution. It is now cli irged by our opponents that we are inconsistent when we place a soldier at the head of the Government The propriety of doing this depends upos the character of he man and the nature ol the service upon which he has been engaged. The General who has fought only for victory or a conquest, c r has been engaged only to Sromote scheme.1 of ambition, or gratify feet* igs of hate, has >een taught upon the oattie field only lessons of force and insolence. Bui those who have c ared the penis of wait to free their country of >ppre*-sion, to gain for it as independent Government, to resist hostile in vasions, or to uphold it against resist ance to its rightful authority, have their minds filled with objects ins ruetive, ennobling and pa triotic. With intellects piitkened by all the dangers and excitements if the strife, tney see more clearly than other men the value of obedience to laws, and the duty of sacrificing all things for their country s good. It was in this school that Washington learned the grand duty oi laving down his ( word and retiring to private life wh^u the world thought he would claim a crown as his rew urd. This act, so constan- iy referred to in otl er lands as well as our own gave him his immortality. It was in the sf me school, under like influ ences, that in t le hour of victory Jackses curbed and restrained his fiery spirit, and submitted to inji stice and indignity, because it was imposed n pon him by a legal tribunal. “ If called to the Presidency, I should deem it my duty to resist, with all my power, any attempt to impi ir or evade the full force and effect oithe Constitution, whiph, in eveiy article, section ant amendment, is the supreme law of the land.* — Winfield Scott Hancock. He who has learned to obey rightful an thority has been aught the great lesson which fits him to exero se great authority. He whe reverences the It ws *»f his country is the rigid man to administ ;r them. He who has proved his devotion to its interests is the one tc whom we can t tost safely trust the work ol guarding and pr dieting them. Therefore we placed him in n unination, and go into thi* contest with the firm faith that we shall cle vate him to the} ositien of President of these United States. — A good pi inter can always tell how the case stan ia—Cincinnati Saturday Night.

The Tw*» Candidates. Two simple questions and their answers will show, better than anything else, the comparative standing of the two Presidential candidates in popular estimation. If the Chicago Convention could be reassembled, would it renominate Garfield? No. We doubt whether that gentleman could cqumaud ifty votes. If the Cincinnati Convention could be reassembled, would it renominate Hancock? Yes—and with even more unanimity and enthusiasm, if pos-ibie, than before. Republicans are heartly sick of the bargain forced upon i them by circumstances, while Democrats are thinking better every day ! of a candidate they began with thinking well of. The alleged availability of Gartipld—which sugar-coated the pill the third-termers had to swallow —has disappeared in the fierce light of investigation poured upon his record. That record is found to* be not merely soiled, but blotted; not merely blotted, but blackened. Not by n^nora set in ■notion by secret eneuiieS; , not by “campaign lies” coined anil ckculated by political opponents; but by public documents prepared by Republican Congressmen and indorsed by the Republican press. Democrats have only to examine the National archives and turn to the files of Republican journos to find all the ammunition they want. The heaviest and wickedest blows indicted upon the Republican nominee have come from Republican hands—at » time when nobody suspected that Presidential lightning would ever strike the corpse laid out by Oakes Ames and De Golyer. No amount of Republican salve can eover, much less heal, these bieeding wounds. The friendly dagger cut too deeply, and the victim will carry them to his grave. Hancock has emerged from a similar ordeal not only unscathed, but with a reputation heightened and brightened by the trial. Republican mud has been thrown upon him by the cart load, but not a grain of it sticks. Republican ialsehoods have been hurled at him, but these miserable inventions have only “returned to plague the inventors.” Republican traps have been set r for him, but they have only caught the fingers of the setters. It is a fact, as complimentary to General Hancock as it is encouraging to the Democracy, that if he were to die to-day—after partisan malice has done its worst—his fame as patriot, statesman and Soldier

wihuu icst uu mwuci auu umioi iuuudiitions than it did six months ago. Base metal may well fear the tire, but gold never. A publie and private career which can be scrutinized and sifted as this has been, without discovering a single flaw or blemish in greater little things, may defy all attacss from any quarter hereafter. The incorruptible honesty, the unsullied honor, the dauntless moral courage, the self-sac-rificing devotion- to duty, the uncompromising adherence to principle, and the hard common sense which Republican probing has revealed, have given Hancock a warmer place in the hearts of his .countrymen than he ever had before. ' 7 ‘ ‘Q,-—— Such a candidate is worthy of such a cause, and when such a candidate and cause are united victory is well-nigh assured iu advance. lAsppcrats, viewing the load Republicans nave to carry in Garfield, have abundant reason to “ thank God and take.eourage." They have only to stand together and work together, only to match their efforts with the excellence and popularity of their nominee, to secure a triumph as beneficial to the country as glorious to themselves.—St. Louis Republican. A Case Without Parallel. In many of the States the criminal laws permit defendants to testify, if they desire to do so, and there have been numerous cases in which the accused have been found guilty on their [ own testimony. We have never heard, however, that a criminal, on his way to the scaffold, found oonsolation in the reflection that he has been convicted out of his o.vn mouth. General Garfield and his party are being reduced to ruin by the evidence which he and his friends have furnished. It is the defendant testifying iu his own oase. No “Democraticcampaign lies,'’ | no calumny, no slander, no cruel accusations are brought against General Garfield. The Democratic editor or sneaser opens the official records of Congress, or turns to Republican journals of the highest respectability, and therein finds not only the .charges, all and severally, that are preferred against General Garfield, but the most ; conclusive proof of each and every | charged that, t.ho manno-PiN rtf

the Re publican ease lose their temper Under 3ueh unprecedented and unheard of circuiastances. They can find no o-uide in history, no light in experience, no parallel in ancient or modern times, for no party was ever thus placed. ^ It has never happened before that a party has selected a Presidential candidate convicted, on his own admission, of having committed, as a member of Congress, an offense punishable with imprisonment for a term of years and a fine of $10,000. It has never happened that any party has nominated for the Presidency a man whom the reputable journals of his own party had deolared lit only to be “kickedout of Congress,” a man of whonS the. most orthodox Republicans of his own district-had said: “He ought to be in the Penitentiary." It will Sever happen again that any party will go into a Presidential contest under a leader hopelessly and irremediably smirched by the most infamous of official scandals, convicted by his own evidence, his oath squarely contradicted by the report of a committee controlled by his own party, and his retirement from public life demanded by the best men and most influential journals of his own politics' faith. “Democratic lies.” indeed! The Democrat who would lie on a man thus branded, thus pilloried for all time, thus arraigned, tried and convicted in the house of his friends—such a Democrat would disgrace humanity. —Washington fast Altogether Probable. When General Hancock is elected, if those who do not want to see him elected may be believed, the Republicans of the United States will be called upon to pay Southern claims larger than the present National debt, together with pensions losses and other matter^ amounting to an aggregate of at least <3,000,000,000. But. inasmuch as the mere proposal to pay out that amount will; wreck the’credit of the Government, the issue of any aonds will be quite wt of the question, and the money will have to be raised either by the issue of legal tenders or by taxation. As the issue of -.hat amount ol egai tenders would make them as worthless as Confederate notes, it ii not likely that those who have thk

scheme in hand fur enriching themselves will be satisfied with payment in worthless paper. The last and only resort, there ore, will be to taxation. According to the opponent s of Hancock’s election, therefore, the people of- the United States are to be taxed three billion^ of dollars for the purpose oi enriching, at the mo-l, three or lour hundred thousand people in the Southern States. The disposition of large masses of people to impose burdens upon themselves for the accoinmodfftiun of a handtul of people that u/e to be benefited is so notorious (hat it is no wonder everybody is looking forward to that scheme as the tirsi act of the new Administration. Moreover as, according to Hancock's opponents, his Administration will give up alio^ether the hope or expectation of collecting any revenue from the South, and permit the “moonshiners'’ and other evaders of the-law to have their own way, this money will have to be collected at the point of the bayonet from the people; of the North. Hut as the people of tne North are almost equally divided into two parties—the vote in 1876 be.ng 2,800,(K)0 Republicans, 2,750,000 Democrats—it follows ' that the Democrats will hare to shoulder half of this enormous bidden themselves. That they will do this gladly, willingly; that this is all they are hoping and praying for; that for this they are working to elect'Hancock, and torn it mean to vote for him, and beg others to vote for him, is as clear as noonday to the editors, if not the readers, of the Republican papers. That these , papers have unearthed only half the. plot is evident on the . face of it. Having succeeded in electing Hancock, the Democrats will at once set themselves to the task of paying over the billions to the Southern claimants. But. instead of , standing up like men and taking their full share of the burden, they mean to turn it all over upon the Republicans. The Republicans alone will be made to pay taxes and foot these bills. Just how this is to be accomplished may perhaps puzzle the man who still uses his reason’' in discussing political questions, but that the Republican editors who have invented the proposed deot are ingenious enough to invent a iva. by which the Democrats can stand from under and make the Republicans pay, no careful student of the “gampaign” Republican journals will lor a moment' permit himself to doubt.—JJecrOit Free tress.

Gospel Truth. • t “Twenty-years of power is long enough.”—■ Mr. Eiujlish’s Letter of Acceptance. Mr. English, in taking the ground that twenty years of continuous power is quite as long as any party' should hope to control the attairs of the Government, and quite as lon^pas tkes people should tolerate the same set of men in office, is borne out by the teachings of history and the experience of hum^y* ity. New policies and new iSfsui s me so constantly springing up that the old . ideas, mest“■>•• • -•» order that there may be progression, and in order that the Government may not be corrupted irom a blessing to an* evil. And this peculiarity of political history is not confined to that of our own country alone. We may cite1 in instanee the reign of Victoria, crowned in 1838, and although exereising ifer , sway for forty-two years, thus far a period embracing most important-polit-ical events, her Ministers-have succeeded one another in rapid succession as the peop.e have demanded new leaders an l the expouents of new policies and principles. We find the same condition <0f things in France, in Germany and in other Governments of the Old World. The power of Bismarck, after eighteen years, is waning, while the Emperor of the Russias is forced to acknowledge th.it the methods and ideas of his'’fathers will no longer serve. And thus it goes. The party that seeks to perpetuato itself simply on the claim that a change of Adiinni.Hration would jeopardize the material interests of the country is apt to , be rebuked by the people • and relegated to the rear. This rotation secures the people against the rogues and knaves who would prostitute theit offices for the benefit of party, and. who would conceal their own plunderings by a perpetual blockade against / Investigating Committees. Mr. English is, therefore, justified in saying ,-*• that “twenty years of power is long enough.” The Republican orators and the Republican press seek to make light of this cry for a change that is going up from the people. The very fact of its having come to. pass that the dominant party snaps its fingers in the face of an crSTwhile minority is sufficient to.show all true lovers of republican government that the time for a change is actually come. No party should be tolerated, no matter what it may have accomplished in the past, when it begins to strive, by unworthy means, to acquire a permaneift grip upon the reins of Government. Were there no other reason for the success of the Democratic party, this reason alone should, as it doubtless will, sut- 1' fice. The Republican leaders may. laugh and grin at the idea to their hearts' content, but the hard, common- n"* sense of the people will not be dis- i suaded from apprehension for the stability and integrity of the Government. Mr. English has sounded a key-note in fiving voice to a common sentiment, aily growing more intense among the people—a sentiment which will in November be found sufficiently general and ■ earnest to defeat the Repubucan party. —Cincinnati Enquirer. ' ' >

When Napoleon died at St. Helena a cast of his face was taken by Ur. Aptomarchi, which is much more beautiful than any portrait or bust of him. Illness had reduced the superabundant fleshiness of the lower part of the Emperor's face, giv:n» it a very youthful appearance, "and death, leaving the mouth slightly open, had removed the expression of firmness and inflexibility that is noticed in all portraits of Napoleon. Lord Byron says-. “ The profile of the oast is the most beautiful profile of a man I ever saw." / The largest library in the United States is the library of Congress at Washington, which contained 231,000 volumes in 1874, and in that year the British Museum and the Imperial Library at St. Peter’s comprised 1,100.000 . volumes eaoh. The largest library in the woifld is the National Library at Paris, which, in 1874, contained 2,000,000 printed books and 150,000 manuscripts. __‘V -Hie New York TYifrune says of the Republican managers, “victory, they believe, is possible. But the work f' necessary to win it has yet to be done.” ' When it comes to being “possible,” instead of probable, the work to win wiB make a proportionate demand on mon< I ey and energy. •4$ I s