Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 October 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL. The newly imported European actress, !Mmc. Jauisch, was physically prostrated at the close of the third aot of “Louisa” in New York on the night of the 7th. The curtain was rung down. A physican was summoned, and serious doubts were «xpressed of the lady being able to resume her engagement immediately. On the 7th the Chief of Police of Meriden, Conn., was in consultation with the Herman Consul in New York, claiming that there is now residing in Meriden Carl Seifert and wife, whom a recent Herman paper says owned a tavern in Tursig, Prussia, in which were found after they had vacated skeletons of seven persons. On 1h9 ?5th Conley, of Boston, will row a four-mile race \$th turn with Teemer, of Pittsburgh, at Hilton, Pa. Sullivan, the pugilist, proposes to train down to 200 pounds, and then he wants to '“put a head” on all the able-bodied pugilists. ; The late Mrs. Augusta M. Huntington, g formerly Mrs. Shumway, of Cincinnati, O., in her will bequeaths f3JO,OOJ to Episcopal institutions at Faribault, Minn., Bishop Whipple being the trustee. On the 8th, while receiving a “Plumed Knights” banner at Seneca Falls, N. Y., General John B. Murphy was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few hours. President Arthur has appointed L. K. Stannard Register of the Land Office at Taylor’s Falls, Minn., vice Owens, deceased, and T. B. #hite, alternate Commissioner of the New Orleans Exposition for Oregon. ’ On the 9th Barney H. York, a prominent elevator man of Cleveland, O., died suddenly. A great demonstration was held in New York on the 9th by the Cleveland and Hendricks clubs of the various exchanges, such 03 the Stock, Miuiug, Produce, CotIon, etc. On the 6 h Belva Lockwood’s supporters !in New Hampshire met and named an electoral ticket. Mrs. Ricker, the leading spirit there, thinks the woman lawyer will poll a surprisingly large vote. Reuben Springer and David Sinton ^ave offered t2T.,l) IO each to the Cincinnati TOO Museum Association to pay for the .removal and erection of the present Postoffice building to the grounds of the^ssoc atiou in Eden Park, as a sample of fmre Grecian architecture.

<5. oicuataky ana manager Henry L Ainslie of the Huron & Middles ix Fire Insurance Company at London, Ont, is missing. The books are said to be in a mixed condition. A letter from Me. Gladstone' appears in a German paper, in which he says Gar many’s colonial policy is not opposed by England, and that a majority of Englishmen approve it, The Wyoming Supremo Court has sustained the decision of the lower court in the case of George Cook, for the murder of James Blunt at Laramie City, in 1S8to be hanged December 13th. Os the 10th Dr. Adolph Heuebscb, a tfell-known Jewish Rabbi of Mew York, dis d suddenly. Rev. David Walk, of Indianapolis, Ind., gave $1,5)0 for five acres of land near Kansas City, Mo., some years ago. He is * now offered $50,001) for it, as the property Is almost in the heart of the city. * In writing to a miner who had asked his advice about emigrating to America, Mr.. Thomas Burt, an English M. P., says that while in the United S;ates, a year ago, he noted that the condition of the miners was unfavorable, thoir position uncertain, and the outlook for the future unattractive. In English court'circles a report is current that the Duchess of Albany, at the termination of her term' of mourning, will marry the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg. The Irish national League Societies have started a movement to extend an invitation to Irish-Americau leaders, including Alexander and Congressman Finerty, to visit Ireland. Ok the evening of the 10th the Tariff Club of Cleveland, Q., had a m( nster demonstration. There were 900 wagons in line, brilliantly illuminated, bearing artisans pursuing their usual f avocations. There were 15,090 men in line, and the entire cavalcade was seven miles in length. The line of march covered twelve miles of illuminated streets.

L_ CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. The court-martial which investigated the loss of the British gunboat Wasp, wrecked recently on Tory Island, found the disaster was due to the absence of care and to inattention in navigating the vessel. The surviving members of the crew were acquitted of blame. Ok the 7th Harry Patrick, of Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., on a telegram, charging him with obtaining goods on false pretenses. At Laurel Hill, N. C., Charles McNairy was killed on the 7«h by his wife, who watered of supporting him. He was 4n invalid. On the 7tb a Texas mob in pursuit of thieves killed a man named Hayes and fatally wounded another named Dunlap. By a recent cyclone on the island of Sicily many persons were killed and wounded. Beokos Frank, arrested some time ago in connection^ with the famous PhoBbe Paulin murder, and dfterward released, has been arrested for aggravated assault on Mrs. Hiltinger, at Newark, N. ,J. Ok the morning of the 8th a storm on Lake Michigan washed away a hut in which a number of men were living while working in a water tunn -1 for a Chicago suburb. Ten of them were drowned. On the night of the 8 h Henry and Nicholas' Zimmerman, brothers, were fatally atabbed in a free fight at Honesville, Pa., Rickard Clark, an employe of Forepaugh’s Circus, whose home is in Canada, while opening the ventilator in a cage at Waterbury, Conn., on the 8th, had his hand seized by a tiger. While trying to release himself he was seized by two tigers and dragged inside the cage. The animals were finally beaten off with iron bars, after Clark’s arms and legs had been horribly crunched and mangled. On the night of the 7th the safes of Nobles tc Sons and Tomlinson &*Sons, at Perry, N. Y., were blown open by burglars and robbed of 121,000 of Arkansas State bonds, besides a large amount of other securities and money. Fire destroyed the game and book manufactory of Peter G. Thompson at Cincinnati, a, the night of the 8th. Adjoining houses were somewhat damaged. Total loss, $100,000; insurance unknown. A heavy wind fanned the flames. Fir* destroyed Blanden & Ca’s large flonr mill at Fort Dodge, la., on the 9tb. An explosion of fire damp in a mine in MoravU, on the 9th, caused the death of twenty persons. On the 9th the Hamilton Powder Mills exploded at CumminsvOle, Ont. Four men were killed. I* is said the Catania district in Sicily, which suffered from a cyclone on the 8th, presents almost the same appearance that Casamicioia did after Hie earthquate In M8S. It is believed many corpses will yet f

At Odessa, Russia, a nan, named Deutsche has been sentenced to thirteen years penal servitude in Siberia for throwing sulphuric acid over M. Guronovich, a nobleman. On the 9th an unsuccessful attempt was made at Toronto, Ont., to wreck a Methodist excursion train with five hundred people on board. Great excitement prevailed. None were injured. On the 9th the wife of Joseph Shirley, residing near Letart, W. Va., was instantly killed by lightning. She was sitting In her room with one of her little girls when ti e boiti descended by the side of the chimney, it being an inside one, and came into the room with tfce above result. The little girl was badly stunned, but, will recover. On the 9th Henry Simmons, an olid and respected pioneer of Oregon, committed suicide near Salem, blowing out his brains. Hie became insane over heavy financial losses. Simmons was prominently identified with the early history of Oregoa. Fire destroyed the Third Prosbyterian Church of Chicago (Dr. Kittridge’s) on the 10 h. Bands of masked robbers are reported as relieving farmers in Pennsylvania of their ready cash almost daily. On the 10th Deo Bugal.a thirteen-year-oild boy of Pittsburgh, Pa., maliciously destroyed the sight of both eyes of Bertie Black, aged five years. On the 10th the headless body of Mrs. Stilwell Hendershot was found in a well near Troy, Jnd. Her husband and son were the murderers. At a late hour the same night a mob banged the son and started back for the old man. It is*now estimated that the number of persons injured by the cyclone i:n Catania will exceed 500. MISCELLANEOUS. The Montreal (Can.) Board of Trade held its quarterly meeting on the 7th. The subject of extradition between the United States and Canada was considered. One of the largest crowds that ever gathered in S . Louis, Mo., witnessed the Veiled Prophets’ pageant the evening of the 7th,;and the verdict of all was that all previous efforts were outdone. There were tsventy-two floats, representing Shaksperiau subjects, arranged in the most elaborate and faithful manner. The city was brilliantly illuminated. The Veiled Prophets’ ball at the Chamber of Commerce was a complete success.

juusj.-vr.ss ui mi Hums is ac a complete standstill at Hong Kong, China. The Brotherhood c^f Locomotive Eugneers at its session’ on the 7th at San Francisco, Cal., reelected E. S. Ingram First Grand Engineer and J. R. Spragge, Toronto, Ont., Second Graud. Ox the 7th the Ninth Episcopal Congress cf the United States met at Detroit, Mich., Bishop Harris presided and delivered the address of welcome. A vert disastrous storm swept over portions of Pennsylvania on the 8th. A battle has been fought by the French and Chinese troops in the valley of the Loo Chuan River, in which the Chinese were routed. During the fiscal year the Western Union Telegraph Company earned $19,. 632,000. The expenses were $13,022,000, and $3,559,000 were paid in dividends. On the 8th the Episcopal Congress at Detroit, Mich., discussed the “Cathedral System in America.” The Pittsburgh stove moulders1' strike, which lasted nine months, has been declared off. Manufacturers will take the men back as individuals, but not as members of the Union. At last accounts the bombardment of Tamsiu oy the French fleet was in progress. The Chinese are said to be strongly intrenched. On the 8 h one hundred and ninetyseven fresh cases of cholera were reported in Italy, and ninety-seven deaths. A CASE under the civiL rights law was decided against a colored man at Washington by Judge Snell. The suit grew out of the refusal to sell the colored man a slipper ticket on a Potomac River steamer. British imports decreased £58,000 during September as compared with the corresponding months of last year. Exports increased £10,030 in the same period. The Reading (Pa.) Cotton Mills have been ordered to shut down for one month, owing to over-production and slow sales. The mills have been working on an agreement with Eastern mills. The mills employ 350 hands. On the 9th the new Japanese Minister arrived at Washington. ^ Til* convention of Fair and ExposRmh managers, which met in St. Louis, Mo., recently, appointed a committee to recommend a suitable location for a World’s Exposition to be held in 1892. The committee thus appointed have selected St. Louis as the most central and best suited, and will report that fact to the general committee December 3d.

it is intimated that the Baltimore & Ohio Railway people will retaliate on account of the action taken by the Pennsylvania Road in reference to the track facilities between Baltimore and New York. The former line has it in its power to stir up a great deal of trouble. At Salt Lake, Utah, the purged Grand Juiy obtained by Judge Seane returned six indictments on the 8th, making twentyone in ten days. The quarterly settlement with the Iowa State Treasurer shows a balance of funds on hand of $191,257.12. The New York Supreme Court, general term, handed down a unanimons opinion on the 8th declaring unconstitutional the bill passed by the Legislature forbidding the manufacture of cigars in tenements. In the recent engagement in Tonquin the Chinese lost 1,000 men, aud 500 more on the retreat According to the Director of the Mint the amount of gold and silver coin in the United States is $815,000,000, of which $558,000,000 are in gold. I» Italy, during twenty-four hours ended the evening of the 9th, 115 fresh*’ cases of cholera were reported and seventy-seyen deaths. 1 A party of Orangemen tore down the gates of a convent at Harbor Grace, N. F.. OB the 9th. The Oliver iron mills at Pittsburgh, Pa., concluded not to cut down wages, and work has been resumed. The British Cabinet has decided to take steps to stop the .encroachments of the Boers in West Africa. At Khff, Russia, the University has been closed, and 168 students arrested for being Nihilists. The soldiers in the Cuban army have received no pay for six months, and the forces are badly demoralized. A meeting of the stockholders of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company was hold in Cincinnati on the 9th. The Baltimore & Ohio people defeated the New York and English parties who sought to tike control from the former. What has been supposed to be chickenpox, prevailing in the vicinity of ^Jrookiitgs, D. T., has been pronounced by comp stent physicians to be genuine smqfl-pox, and the disease is spreading rapidly through the coun try. It is supposed to have been introduced by emigrants. Up to the 9th four persons had died. The Fair of tbe St. Louis (Mo.) Ag icoltural and Mechanical Association was attended on the Soil by 115,000 poisons, and the Great Exposition was visited by tens of thousands during the day and evening. The crowd in the city was one of tbe largest <>o record.

It is said that: over 2,000 persons have iron killed by the explosions of mines around Khartoum under direction of General Gordon. A Shanghai dispatch says the French fleet in Chinese waters is short of supplies, and it is feared- the neglect of the commissariat may hamper it s operations. The fence cutters have again began work in Texas. At last reports French troopr were still pursuing the Chinese in Tonquin. The Russian Government has ordered three frigates to China. Oh the morning of the 10th heavy frosts fell in many portions of the country. Thiiee were :121 fresh cases of cholera reported in Italy on the 10th and 70 deaths. Dr. C. C. Graham, of Louisville, Ky., celebrated the cue hundredth anniversary of his birth on the 10th. The British Conservatives and Liberals, it is claimed, will reach a compromise upon the franchise bill. In his report Mr. Nimmo, Chief of the Buretifh of Statistics, shows America to be the largest manufacturing nation on the globe. The labors of the Illinois State'Convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union closed at Peoria on the 30th. Delegates to the National Convention at St. Louis, M04 were elected. ihe report ol the Bureau of Agriculture for October shows the general average for the corn crop to be 93. The execution of Charles Butler, son of a wealthy physician at Columbus, O.,, took place at Columbus, lnd., on the 10th, tor the murder of his wife. The tellow died game. A few minutes before the deathwarrant was read he played an accoirdeon and danced a jig. The Government of Canada has offered to assist the Cape Colony Government with men or money in overcoming its present difficulties, the renewal of which arouses Canada’s keen sympathy. Orders have been issued to the Australian squadron to proceed to New Guinea and proclaim a protectorate on the part of England over the coasts of the island east of the 141st meridian of east longitude, and over the adjacent islands to the south. The commander is instructed not to allow Europeans to settle upon the island at present. During the year ended June 30,18114, the total value of imports and exports of merchandise amounted to $1,408,211,3)2, or $138,818,104 less than during the preceding year. Ihe value of domestic merchandise exported 'during the veai

to $72^964,832, or $78,238,780 less than, during the preceding year; and the value of imports amounted to $667,697 (85, or $55,483,221 less than the preoeding year. Tile exports ol specie for the year amount* ed to $67,133,383, and the imports to $37,426,262. The excess of specie imports during the year amounted to $29,7 7,121, a3 against $<5,330,942 during the preoeding year. A secret conference of paper manufacturers was held in Philadelphia on the 8th, at which leports were made of » short supply of rags all over the country, owing to the Government embargo on imported rags from the East, and it was determined to call a meeting to be held in Cleveland. It was thought a determined effort would be made, to force the price np an average of two cents a pound. The supply of rags in port and on the water will only keep the mills going until December 1st, The large paper dealers in Chicago and other cities, East and West, are serving: their customers with notices to the effect that they aro compelled to withdraw former quotations and give prices on amounts, or from day to dgy. The writing paper manufacturers agreed, at a meeting held in Boston on the 6th, to advance prices two cents per pound, and to maintain the advanced rates. For the seven days ended the Kith the failures numbered, in the United States, 196; Canada, 24; total, 220; as against 217 the preceding week. The failures are now below the average in the Western, New England and Pacific States, bat a eoi responding increase is noted in the Southern and Middle States and Nevr York City. Four thousand unemployed workmen of Glasgow, !Scotland, held a meeting on the 10;b. They passed a resolution asking the magistrates to assist them. It is announced that the Government of the Republic of Santo Domingo has abolished export duties on sugar, molasses and all oi her productions of the country. The export duty was twenty-flvo cents per 100 pounds on sugars. LATE SEWS ITEMS,

JDirhthkria has become epidemic on Long Island. There were seven deaths from yellow fever at .Havana, Cuba, for the week: end. e l the 11th. Okoamziii bands of robbers continue to rob farmers in Pennsylvania. t»K(X Burnett, a noted horseman, died at New Haven, Conn., on the 11th. A disastrous dynamite explosion occurred at tlie new Parliament building, Quebec, on the 11'h. The walls were badly damaged, and the windows broken. Two persons were injured. French troops in Africa will be sent to Tonquin to strengthen the forces there. There were 109 fresh cases of cholera and forty-two deaths Reported at Naples on the 11th, and 175 fresh cases and fiftyone deaths on the 12th. Hog cholera of a«riolent nature is ^reading in Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Admiral COuebet telegraphs from KeeLung that he is erecting posts for troops to occupy. The recent cyclone in Sicily destroyed 3,000 dwellings, in addition to vineyards and olive gardens. Gladstone thinks that a protectorate should be established over New Guinea. There is a great increase in the slave trade on the coast. Wisdow-olass factory owners nt Pittsburgh, Pa., are complaining of excessive dullness in tradj, and efforts are being made to close down for a short period. The trouble between the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Roads grows worse. The former has entered, suit against the Philadelphia, Washington & Baltimore to keep that line from going tack on its agreement. There are many interesting points in the case, and the fight, promises to be a warm one. Physicians who examined the skull of Charles Butler, the wife-murderer hanged in Indiana, say he was insane. Nearly all of the syndicate mines in the Hocking Valley of Ohio were on fire on the 12th, A number of hoppers were burned. It is reported that President Woolsey has resigned from the Vale College corporation on account of advanced age. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the James Iboys, arrived in St. Louis bn the ■ 13tb to prosecute her suit against the publishers of the life of the bandits. Socialists incited a riot at Brendenberg, Germany, on the 12tb. There was a serious confiict with the military. Ferry, Prime Minister of Franne,, thinks there is work ahead for France. He is not altogether pleased with England's attitude, nnd is disposed to form an alliance with Germeny. The Notional Health Association met in St, Louis, Mo., on the 11th,

OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE. ®*et* Cleaned From the Report of the Bureau of Statistics, Showing the Magni. fade of Our Interaal Commerce. Washington, D. C.. Ootober 11. Mr. Nitnmo, Chief of the Bureau of StatisUcs, yesterday handed in his annnal report to the Secretary of the Treasury. The matter of chief importance treated of is the en rmoua magnitude of onr internal commerce. It is rhown that the value of the prodncts of the various Industries of the United States is seven times the total value of our foreign commerce; nearly three times the total value of the foreign commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, and five times the total value of the foreign commerce of France, inclnding in each case both imports and exports. The total value of the prodncts of industry in the United States is also shown to be a little more than twice the total value of imports of merchandize from all the countries of Unripe. The United States is now the largest manufacturing country on the globe. The value of prodncts of American manufacture consumed at home is five times the value of the manufactured products of Great Britain and Ireland exported to all other countries, and more than fonrtee t times the value of the exports of manufactured products from France to all other countries. The relative value of the Internal as compared with the foreigu commerce of the country is also illustrated by statements showing that 99 per cent, of the coal mined in this country, 95 per cent, of onr iron and steel products, 95 per cent, of the prodncts of onr leather industry, more than 99 per cent, of our manufactures of wool, 95 per cent, of the products of our cotton manufactures, more than 99 per cent, of onr mannfactures of silk, arid 97 per cent, of our manufactures of glass, glassware, earthenware and stoneware are consumed in the Uuited States. Referring to periods of phenomenal prosperity and of phenomerial depression, which have from the beginning en- ■ larged the commercial and industrial growth of the country, he says: “Experience has proved the.-e fluctuations to be but the symptoms of an exuberant and uncontrollable spirit of enterprise outrnnning the possibilities of a healthy and well-proportioned development, even in this land of abounding natural resources.”

THE COUNTRY’S CROPS. The Average Condition of the Harvested and Unharvested Crop., as Reported bj the Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C-. October BL The Department of Agriculture returns of corn average higher lor condition than in the past five years, but not so high as in any of the remarkable corn years from 1875 to 1877 inclusive. The general average is 93, which is very nearly an average of any series of ten years, and indicates about 26 bushels per acre on a breath approximating 70,000,000 acres. The wheat crop will exceed that of last year by about 100,000,000 bushels. The yield per acre will average about 13 1-3 bnsheis. The indicated yield of rye is about twelve bushels p r acre. Tae quality is sn erior. The yield of oats is little above the average, yielding about 27 bnsheis pet acre, and making a erop approximating five hundred and seventy millions of good quality. The barley crop makes a yield of nearly 23 bushels per acre, and a product exceeding fiity millions bushels of average quality. The condition of the buckwheat averages 87, indicating a crop slightly under an avenge. The condition of the potato crop is epresented by 88,which is five poin s lower than in October of last year. The October returns of co|ton indicate a reduction of nearly eight points in the average of condition, from 82.5 to 74.7, as the result of continued drought in arresting development and destroying the vitality of the^f^ints. Of ten successive crops, only tyro averaged lower in c nditlon in October. These were 1881 and 1883, when the averages were 66 and 68 respectively. The average was 88 in the great cotton year of 1882. The returns of local estimates of yield per acre in fractions of bales Indicates an ave:ago rate of yield of 36-100 of a bale per acre. HELD FOR R Aft SOM.

The Crew of the British Steamer Niseroa ^Beld for Ransom by the Rajah ot Tenom —A Reiter Received from One of the Prisoners—Right of the Party I>end. Philiielphia, Pa., October 10. Henry D. Moore, of this city, has receive d a letter from his cousin, Leonard K. Moore, second officer of the British steamer Niseroa, which ran agrouud on the coa>t of Sumatra, November 8th, 1883, and the crew of which was captured and taken into the interior and held for ransom by the Ksjah of Tehom. The letter is dited July 20th, 1884, and says eight out of the twenty-eight men had died. Their treatment was very cruel. They had tried to escape, but each time were brought back at peril of the sword and some were placed in irons. The latter info mation was conveyed by means of a cipher known only by Moore and hi< consin. The writer explains that he has to be caret ut what he writes. Thi letter was forwarded by a friendly native to Commander Bicktord of tl. M. S Pgasus, at Singapoor, who forwarded it. At Singspoor the Dutch men-of-war have been negotiating ior the release of the prisoners, but have been prevented from making an attack on the Kajah, knowing that the moment a gun is tired the captives will be massacred. Brutal Wile Murder. New York, October 10. Martin Mulrey. living at No. 7 East Ninety-first street, yesterday afternoon entered the room in which his wife, Maggie Mnivey, forty-three years old, lived, daring her absence and attempted to take the carpe t from the fl or. He was drunk and said he would sell the carpet so as to get money for liquor. He bad gathered it np and was about to leave the room when Mrs. Mutvey entered. As soon as she saw what he was doing she attempted to prevent It, when Mulvey drew a revolver from his pocket and, pointing it at her, fired, withou t hitting her. He then chased his wife into the street and, jumping on his wagon, which was in front of the hous e, took a heavy loaded whip in his hand and struck her three or four times on the head, fracturing her skull. Mrs. Mc.liann, of Ninety-third storet, and Mrs. O’Conner, of Ninetyfi st street, botl ot whom witnessed the assault, corroborate the above facts. The woman was taken to the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital, where she died at ten o’clock last evening. Mnivey was arrested shortly after she died and locked np. He had a very bad reputation, and had frequently threatened to kill his wife, with whom he did not live, only caliiwr ou her at intervals to get *

BAYARD ON THE STUMP. An Excellent Speech by the Delaware Senator. Senator Bayard to the Brooklyn fX 5.) Democrats—The Contrast Between Blaine and Cleveland. In the course of a recent adores? to the Democrats of Brooklyn, N. Y., Senator Bayard made these tellinw points: ' 0 A FALSE ISSUE. The condition of our country presents for our consider* on economic and political problems which demand a wise and reasonable solution at our hands- Some of them are new, and appeal to forces not hitherto known in our National politics. I refer to the fact that we now witness direct appeals by candidates for the Presidency, and the parties that support them, to the prejudices and supposed interests of classes of our countrymen whose interests are alleged to be distinct and at variance(With those of other classes. To state the question simply, it is the attempt to create and force an issue between the laboring classes, so-called, and the owners of capital who employ them. H This is w my judgment a false. un-Ameri-can and wholly unadmissable issue to be raised. This country undoubtedly wa* intended to be governed in the interests, not of any class, but of all classes of our population. It was intended that none should have privb leges denied to others, which simply meant that none were to have separate privi.eges, ^ will be vain to search through any public paper, in which the welfare of the whole people, and nothing less than the whole people, was declared to be the object of the American Government. Itisclear to me that if this line of argument is to be followed, and issues are to be created and iostered between the capital and labor of the country, or between'different classss and employments of our citizens that in such a strugg e v.ctory must ultimately be declared after long and disastrous conflict, in favor of one or the other; that there is to be at the end of such a struggle a victor and a vanquished party. There is nothing in sueh a spectacle that I think justifiable to the idea of the American Constitution, and the man who contemplates it may be justly regarded as the foe to iioerty and the American form of Government. A MASTEJt OF PRETENSION. 1 ®®r* Maine in his famous letter has laid down his pretensions, and Mr. Blaine, you know, is a master of pre tension. He has taken care to claim everything—all the blessings of a tree Government, all the advantages of human invention and industry, the very bounty of the soil, the unlimited territory, the steamboat and railway, the telephone, the very sun that warms, the breeze that cools,the rains that fructify, anc *even the l?™1 ‘^crease of popu ation. not to speak w t“e.,a s^ted immigration of labor-all that the torl ot men and women has produced in the United States has been seized by this candidate Tor public honor and respect, and held^up by him as due to a high protective

THE UNJUST TARIFF SYSTEM. On the contrary, I make bold. In direct opg>>ition to the statements and claims of Mr. lame, to aver, and call the record of h'story as my witness, that a sense of injustice created by an unjust system of lay in? tariff taxes has produced more local jealousy, more sectional feeling, more estrangements between our countrymen than any other single cause; that it has caused labor to organize m discontent for lack of steady employment and compensatory wages, has filled the land with violence and threats of violence, has strained the rule of law, and promises to bring in the military arm of force as a customary resort to obtain order. . . . This it is which has emboldened and induced the demagogue to appeal in our midst. But for the acceptanse of snch doctrines as Mr. Blame advocates and his party approves, in r aspect to the use of the !2x,,l*L.po^e£ but for th© tone of public thi ught and feel in* gradually generated by such a mercenary spirit and abuse of a great public trust, I do not believe such a spectacle cou.d be witnessed in the United States as is now. that a candidate who has fattened upon every abuse that our laws conta n, and yet has - strangely gone unwhipped of public justice, should now )© running up and down the land offering himself as the special friend of the laboring man, whose scant earnings have gone largely u swell his vast fortune— and the toe of monopolies which have only arlded to his wealth-in cynical disregard of ad that right-minded moil value and respect; affecting specially to represent the interests of Tabor, and yet s< eking to array classes of society against eael other, hoping thereby out of the general ruin to feed tat his grudges against decency and rood order at the cost of the public peace and welfare. It is this system of taxation which, while ,— .—*' ' J *** w».vauv/u "UiUU, nil lie UOOincide *—^V--”e '°f more. than **#.000.tiian IWJU.OJU,--.‘nta ly enta Is ay enhanced cost of living upon the American laborer and upon the American const; mer to the extent, at least, of five times that amount. In addition to this it has gradually set.led up the products or lnamifaeturers within their home market, rendering it impossible fo - them profitably to increase their nrodnet, or even, as it would seem, to maintain it6 present volume, touch less to expand their sales into foreign markets. when over-production has glutted the home market. THE SOUTHERN QUESTION. Think for one moment or the class and character of men who have been authorized to represent the government of the Union to the Southern peoDle. did they represent Its benignity. Its honesty or its Justice? On the contrary, the rising generation of the Southern Stages, if they measured their Government by its agents, wculd be obliged to consider Its functions were to extort unnecessary taxes to harrass the taxoaver, to wound the footings of the people, to bringdisgrace upon republican institutions. After fifteen years of public service, as a memoer of the Senate—the confirming body of all executive appointments—I profess that i have known but a few casc3. some rare exceptions, whore the men appointed to public office under the Federal Government in the Southern States would have possib'y been chosen for the same office iu a Northern State. When f have protested against this the answer is: “What can t/o do? Such- men —bad as they are -are the best we can get in the Southern States, in the ranks of the Kepublican party.” Look also at the kind of men with whom politic; I alliances are promptly made by the Republican party in the

Look at tho Cash family in South Carolina-red-handed murderers and desperadoes, the class who have been painted as tvpicai Southern men—ruffians in broadcloth—yet young Cash died the other day defying the legal process of the State and its officers, with a United States Deputy Marshal's commission In his pocket. Look at Chalmers in Mississippi, gazetted for years by the Republican Dress as the murderer of colored troops at Foi-t Pillow. Yet ho is taken to the bosom of the depublican party and paid fees as an attorney to prosecute his political opponents in the courts of the United States. Look at Virginia. O shade of Washington! Osacred tomb at Mount Vernon! Witness there the sacrifice of State honor—the repudiation of State obligations, the degradation of every function of State government, the overthrow of every institution of good government, to.. place a corrupt jobber andcaioler of negro votes in the Senate of tho United States, and in control of tho entire patronage, of tho Government of that Old Dominion, “the Mother of States and Statesmen.” A POLICY OP IN-JCSTICS. Fellow countrymen, the war for the supremacy of the Union cuded in the complete overthrow of its opponents nearly twenty years ago. Whatever reasons may once have been thought to exist for such a policy and system Of antagonistic and distrustful legislation against the white pcoDle of the Southern States can now bo no longer alleged. When, as the price of party adhesion, we see Akers man and Key in the Cabin, t, and Longstreet and Mosby In foreign missions, and Mahono and Cash and Chalmcre ail in the close embrace ot the ItepublicaA leaders,we may know that tho Republican party does trust the South when it thus bestows office and power upon the least trustworthy. Therefore, 1 arraign at t he bar of an honest and patriotic public opinion the men and the party who have devised and continue a policy of injustice and alienation toward nearly one-half the States of this Union. I chnrge them here, and in the full view of our country. with prostituting and perverting the great public power of Government for low, narrow and sectional party ends. The proofs are written on the pages of history. Our statute books contain them. The decisions or the Supreme Court denying the constitutionality of these laws attest them. The blue book with its lists of incompetent, dishonest and corrupt officeholders attests them. The record of the criminal courts at-' test them. Everywhere and on every hand is emblazoned tbe burning truth that the rage ot party spirit has caused the Republican party to forget truth, justice and tbe Constition in dealing with the people of the Southern States sinee the close of the war. This alone is an issue sufficient for this canvass: this alone should control tbo votes of thougntfui, moderate and patriotic citizens, and instruct them that public welfare, the perpetuation of the Union, tho promotion of civic virtue and the punishment of civic vice demand a change in the administration of the Federal Government. Let us deal with our brethren in the Southern States in a high and wise spirit. .Let us evoke all that is highest and best in their natures. Let us bring to the front not the Miserable mercenaries of their own society, or tbe low adventurers who, carpet bag in hand, have been prowling for blunderamong them; bat let us call to the front the wise, the honored, the able, the eon•eicntious, God-fearing, man-loving citizens

of eminence: such men as are today the recipients of the confidence and respect of th«4 private citizens of the North who visit the £outh on business or in search of health or on pleasure; the men who are consulted when great private interests arp at stake: the men whose learning and integrity cause the Supreme Court of the United States to listen with admiration and respect to their argumonta THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. now> i*1 conclusion, one word as to the candidates. I have referred to Mr. Blaine entirely as a public man, and the public record of his action whilst in office is all that I shall large body of his fellow-citizens, who, as Independents, declare their unwillingness to ▼ote for him and who give ther rea- ons publicly and in full. They are impressive witnesses beeauso for the last twenty-five years they have been his party associates, and have therefore a longer and more intimate knowledge than his life-long opponents—the Democrats—em have. They give the reason why they recoil from placing him at the head of the affairs of the Nation. They deplore his election as a National calamity and foretell a downward plunge of the National character and the National interests when his influence shall be allowed to control them. I, as a Democrat, believe and feel what they say is true, and for other and additional reasons, which I have given you, I believe nil election would be a public calamity. I have here the document report. No. 178, of the House of Representatives, Forty-fourth Congress and Bret session. It contains the depositions under oath of James Mutluran.acituen of Boston, made in the presence of Mr. Blaine. This witness is not only to this day wholly imAnd now I come to the character of the Democratic candidate. If any man has imputed to him a corrupt use or intent to use public power, I never heard it. nor, I think, have you. He is.not. as I have heard, a brills iant man, nor a “magnetic” one, but he is % man of sound judgment, of vigorous inteU lecfc, and habits of laborious performance of duty. He has the industry and capacity to form independent opinions, and the conscience and the courage to maintain those opinions. This has brought him in sharp and positive Conflict with vigorous and able men, and bas displeased them, deeply offender them, but among them all I have never heard an imputation, accompanied by the slightest evidence, upon his go .><1 faith, or his peroonal truth, hon9r or integrity. There is a kind of evidence known as “unconscious proofs.” it consists or the unguarded*«tec!osures of a man's motives and impulses, made without reflection and unao companied by any intent; sudden rays of light in falling upon the more secret recesses of his heart, and giving a better knowledge of hts nature than any premedidated act or word. I have a letter of Grover Cleveland, written in the unthinking confidence of family affection to his orother, on the day of hfli meals. criticise. He has been pictured

vi iuc cnaic ui new York. It was an echo from his heart and a true riflex of his ^eehngrs at a time when hig-h honor and great responsibilities had come upon him. • That letter had the true rin^of horicst manhood, with but one aspiration, and that to do his duty. That mingled with that aspiration came the memory of bis dead mother, and that her gentle influence seemed then to revive and strengthen and purify his thoughts will not lessen the 6ympa- h es of the American people with the son who mourned her ah sence in the day of his renown and promotion among men. But this is the leading influence in the cha*> act?r of Grover Cleveland as I discern it; not love ot money, not to achieve success no* arouse noisy admiration, but chiefly to per* form his dfttyjn that station of life to which it may please God to call him. He has done this alike in ofljees comparatively humble as well as in those or great distinction and power, for he has governed the Empire State and 5,5iKI,00.1 pe<$ple honorably, honestly and well for the past two years. As a son and brother he has done his duty. As a citizen he has done his duty. As a Stieriff he has done his duty. As a Mayor of Buffalo he has d me his duty. As Governor of the State of New York he has done his duty. And, God willing, as President of the United States he will do his duty. The Great Western Revolution. Unless the shrewdest ami most careful observers completely misconstrue the signs of the times, the greatest political revolution of the present year will take Diace in the West Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois, besides some smaller Western'State3, are in apparent readiness to repudiate the Republican party, to which they have adhered in every Presidential year since I860, with the exception of Indiana in 187B, and to enlist under the banner of Change and Reform. Republican intolerance, bad faith, greed and corruption have gradually prepared the way for a great revolution. The “insolence of power” shown by the Republican party for nearly a quarter of a century; its ruthless taxation of the people for the puroose of amassing a huge surplus in the National Treasury, which it controls; its ag-, gressions on the personal rights and* liberties of the people; its undue fav<<p* itism of monopolies and corporations; its open, defiant corruptions, have by degrees kindled the indignation which is now prepared to break out into a consuming fire. The French Revolution was seemingly the work of a night. The uprising oi July 12, 178!), took Paris by surprise. Yet it need not have done so. The infamies of the Regency, the weakness of the King, the insolent usurpations and outrages of the nobles, the wrongs of a hard-toiling people, pinched by hunger and driven to desSair, had for years given sufficient inications of the gathering of the terrible storm which suddenly burst over the Nation.

The pending political revolution in the West has had ample provocation. The Republicans have ground down agricultural labor, while driving railroads over its neck and pampering favored interests. They have given away hundreds of millions of the public lands to wealthy and grasping corporations, pntting the bona-fide settler under the power of monopolies. In all their policy they have abused the Western section of the country in a greater degree, probably, than auy other. The Germans, who have docked to the West, have found themselves, under a professedly free Government, stripped of their personal privileges and amusements ana placed in a straitwaistcoat' of other people’s intolerant notions and prejudices. _ It is desirable that the wave of political revolution should come from the young and vigorous West. It will be thetmore irresistible because it will bear on its crest the rugged honesty of the broad prairies. : It will be a victory all the greater and more significant if won by States which are marching on like an army of giants and which have remained faithful to the Republican party as long as it was faithful to itself. If will be a victory that will stay, that will know ho reverses, that will grow with the growth of the West and be strengthened by the wisdom and patrii atism dith which it will be used. New York 4s pledged to the Dem» sratie cause. So are New Jersey, Connecticut and other Eastern States. But we shall all gladly hail the West as a leader in the great revolution and shall feel that our common triumph will be made doubly glorious if it is to be tha signal of the emancipation of the West;rn States from Republican thraldom. —N. r. Wor’d. -The Republicans realize the fact that Mrs. Lot M. Morrill’s testimony is rery damaging and arc leaving no (tone unturned to break it down. But it won’t break. Mrs. Morrill has fold the truth, and there it stanch

REPUBLICAN STEALAGE. The License Which Politicians Take 'with the Truth Secretary McPherson*. Recent Statement Contradicted by History—Some Pacts Which Can Not bo Controverted. _ McPherson, Secretary of the Repnbliean Congressional Committee, has gotten out a handbook which states that the stealings under the Democratic Administrations went greater than under Republican Administrations. McPherson is simply an old liar, and he knows it. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Coon certifies to the correctness of MePherson’s figures, in other words, McPherson lies and Coon swears to them. Now. what are the facts? In his speech last night Mr. Post, Sec-, retary of the Democratic Congressional Committee, shed much light upon this interesting subject by making the following important statement:' “This statement of Secretary McPherson ahd the Acting Secretary of the Treasury as to t.hc amount stolen under Arthur’s Administration, is so utterly at variance with the knowledge of every person who has read the current news of the past six months, that its falsity was exposed with the statement. But an examination of the annual reports of the Solicitor of the Treasury, who is the law officer of the Treasury Department charged with the prosecution of the defaulting office re of the Government in civic suits, to the At-torney-General for the three fiscal years freceding June 30, 1883, shows this Me-herson-Coon statement to be absolutely false, so far as the amount they report as stolen under Arthur’s Administration is concerned. “ The following are the figures of the Solicitor of the Treasury, taken from his official printed reports: Amount of defalcations for tho year ending Juno :t>, 1»<I, upon t which suit has been entered by tho United States Attorney General to recover.. $4S\477 97 Collected on same by suits. il.'sr, Oi

jLoiai loss on same. .. $£16.6%: 93 Amount of defalcations during tne fiscal year ending June 31, 1882, upon which suit has been % entered to recover. $427,43) 24 Collections by suit on same._ 1.224 14 Total loss to the Government_ Defalcations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, up >u which suit has been brought to recover.t_ .... ... Collections by suit on same... $426,196 10 Total loss.. J..........ij -. — Total amount of deti'eations_ ing the three years preceding June 30, 1881, upon which the United States has sued to recover in the United States courts... .$1,560,733 77 Total amount of collections on same....... .. 18.933 50 Total toss to the Government.... $1,550,800 27 “Assuming that the McPherson-Coon statement is correct as to the loss to the Government by reason of defalcation of the United States otlicers from the commencement of Washington's Administration down to 186!, which they make $24,441,829.32 for a period embracing sev-enty-two years, we will now show by the reports of the Solicitor of the Treasury, which have been transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General in their annual reports, that the McPhersonCoon statement is liatly contradictory of reports of these Cabinet officers from.Lincoln’s first inauguration down to June 30, 1883. These reports show a total loss under the eight years of Lincoln’s Administration from official defalcations after deducting collections of $24,6b7,972.16. Stolen under Grant ifirst term_ $8,785 729.77 Stolen under Grant (second term) 4,874.5.19.28 Stolen under Hayes. 1,724.523.81 Stolen under Arthur’s three years 18,0J4,HX>.25 Total loss after deducting collections ...$!5,a27JK5.27 It is thus shown by the official reports to Congress'of the different Secretaries of the Treasury and Solicitors of the Treasury from 1861 tol8S3. that during the twenty-three years of Republican Administration of the Government the thefts, of public money aggregated $45,527,625.27, while from Washington’s administration down to Buchanan, both inclusive, a peried of seventy-two years, there was a loss of but $24,441,829.32—an excess of $21,065,795.95 stolen in twenty-three years of Republican Administration over seventy-two years of previous Administrations, covering every President from Washington to Buchanan, both inclusive.” The Acting Sbcretary of the Treasury lent his signature to the McPherson statement as correct, and thus certified to a flagrant falsehood, as is shown by the reports at the Controlling offices. The law officers and the Secretaries of the Treasury, including such men as Salmon P. Chase, William Pitt Fessenden, Hugh' MeCullogh and

a**. i,TAJiuu, lb UUU1MIC3 uuuuier strong reasou why the book of the Treasury should be opened for inspection by new parties. In this connection it would be well to refer to the following fact: Four years ago Senator Davis, of West Virginia, when Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the United States Senate, overhauled thoroughly the accounts of the Treasury Department. He forced from unwilling witnesses, all of whom were officers of the Treasury, the testimony that there were thirteen thousand erasures on the Treasurer's book, and millions of dollars entered so as to make the books balance without a singleitem to show when the items were so made or what had become of. the money. This extraordinary showing did not receive proper attention at the time because we were in the midst of great prosperity. The magnitude of the amount stolen in the twenty-three years of Republican administration can be estimated in the following manner: If the amount stated, namely, 845,527,625.27, was invested in standard silver dollars, and stored in the Treasury,. subject to the order of the StarRouters, and the order of Republican thieves who have taken it, calculating that 1,000 pounds would make a fair load for a horse and cart, and that 816,000 weigh 1,000 pounds, it would take 2,845 loads of 816,000 each load to haul it. to Republican headquarters. Estimating a cart and horse to be fourteen feet long, and allowing four feet between oath oart? if placed in single file, this Republican stealing would make a procession nine miles and threequarters long. Estimating the procession would move at the rate of three miles an hour, it would take Mr. Elkins at Republican headquarters three hours and fifteen minutes' to review it, and the line would extend from the Battery, in New York City, to beyond Harlem, : and yet Senator Hawley said in his ■ Brooklyn speech that “stealing under Republican administration bad been re- i duced to a minimum.” —• WashitteioR 1 Cor. louiivilk Gmrter-Joumal,

I POLITICAL POINTS. -The New York Herald pats it neatly. It says that the election returns show that Blaine is about 4,000 votes less popular in Maine than R. B. Hayes, the well known hen raiser of Fremont, O. -The New York Post says very truly of the Blaine-Phelps letter: “Those, whether politicians or not, who encourage the activity of creatures like Rev. Dr. Ball, must be held answerable for this great and novel depravation of our political manners.’'t -The latest Republican consoler is the young lady who has set her wedding “the day after Blaine is elected.” The girl is fortunate in one thing. She need to be under no anxiety about the Marriage laws of the State where she lives. It will make no difference to her whether a license is required or not. 1 1 -The dispatcheg_say that "in each town in Michigan which General Logan has passed through, the schools have been closed and the day ^cognized as a holiday.” The school-beys who take advantage of this holiday to hear Logan will probably be convinced by hint that they can get along very well without schooling. ——Mr. Hendricks, during the long period of his retirement from pnbiic life, has not been an indifterent or unphilosophical observer of passing events. His speeches strike the National mind like a freshet of new ideas. He makes us distrust the accuracy of the impression that old bottles are' not fitted to hold new wine.—Brooklyn Eagh, -Well-posted Democrats say that New York State, is good for at least 40,000 majority for Cleveland. The drift in the interior of the State is all in favor of the Democratic candidates, and New York and Kings Counties can be depended upon to duplicate their famous majorities of 1816. In fact. Kings County, if reports can be relied upon, will give an unprecedented majority for Cleveland.

-“1 thought every citizen of this country knew my husband was at rest. I am in mourning for him: but, as much as I mourn his death. I thank my Father in Heaven that He called him before the party he loved so well, and did so much for, had so disgraced itself as to nominate so wicked and corrupt a man for the highest office within the gift of the American people, as I know, and my husband knew, James G. Blaine to be. If he were alive, he would not support Mr. Blaine, or any such man, even at the bidding of his party. "—Mrs. MorrilL Blaine’s Nemesis. ' The man who has given Blaine the most trouble in this campaign is that quiet and unobtrusive but clear-headed and honorable gentleman, Jamos Mulligan. A little over eight years ago he went to Washington, summoned asj a witness by an investigating committee, carrying with him a little green bag which contained letters from dimes G. Blaine to Warren Fisher, Jr., and which over Blaine’s own signature afforded full and complete evidence that the writer was a corrupt man using the second office in point of influence in the United States for purposes of private ga’n. These letters came into Mr.< Mulligan’s hands in a perfectly proper and honorable way. His testimony as to the way in which Blaine got them into his own hands and kept them there' is a chapter of shame with which our country is thoroughly familiar. It has made absurd all attempts of the Blaine apologists to whitewash the record of their candidate. As long as that testimony is not impeached Blane must stand before^ the country blotched and stameefewith the evidence of proved corruption. .. -Those who rethember the circumstances under which the testimony of Mr. Mulligan was given as well as the character of the man, have not dared to utter a word impugning his veracity. But there are signs of rashness abroad. If there is any discretion in the Republican party leaders they will call off their hounds. Senator Hoar in his open letter to “ his dear young friend” intimated that Mr. Mulligan was drawing upon his imagination when he drew that startling "picture of Mr. Blaine's distress. A Blaine organ as far away as Richmond, Va., attacks his personal honor and character as the only way to break the force of his testimony. Mr. George P. Lawton, of Troy, N. Y., has been telling the people oi Nassau that Mulligan is a thief. Now this is dangerous. Mr. Mulligan can prove by a thousand of as good men as there are in Boston that he bears au enviable reputation as a gentleman oi truth ana honesty. And when that reputation is thus established Mr. Mulligan is in possession of yet unrevealed facts in the life of Blaine whieh he can give to the public. The Tribune should send around the word not to provoke Mr. Mulligan. He is loaded_Boston Post..

A Conflict of Evidence. The Republicans have tried to break the force of Mrs. Lot M. Morrill’s shiro denunciation of Mr. Blaine by appealing to the brother of the late Senator. The widow of the latter, who may be assumed to have possessed a larger share of his confidence than anybody else, says that her husband’s estimate of Blaine was years ago precisely; what that of the Independent Republicans is to-day; that he told her in 1880 that, although they would succeed that year, if the Republicans did not take a sharp turn in the direction of personal fitness in the selection of a candidate they would be beaten in 1884. Moreover, she was satisfied that if her husband were now alive he would oppose Blaine’s election. In this emergency the Repub-' iicans appeal to ex-Governor Anson P. Morrill. He is said to be an old man— whether as old as “Uncle Allen’’ we; »re not told. But he retains control c>Jhiis faculties so far as to think iust what die Republicans want him to think. He is convinced that Blaine will be dected and that “if his brother Lot were alive” he would be “one of Mr. Blaine’s warmest supporters.” Here is » conflict of evidence which, it is to be loped, will not lead to a family quarrel, it will be noticed that Anson P. give# no reason for the faith that is in him— such as that Lot M. told him he would he proud of a chance to support'Blaine >r gave him an exalted estimate of Blaine’s character. On the other hand, Mrs. Lot M.’s testimony does not lack :his sort of confirmation. We have had the brother-in-law and the unde, and low we have the brother-in-law and the dster-in-law together in politics. Among the various questions' upon which the intelligent voter must make ip his mind-before going to the polls is whether Mrs. Lot M. or Mr. Anson P. s better informed as' to what Mr. Lot M- wonld do if, as some stupid mem>er of the Ohio Republican Committee tupposed, he were alive to-day, *1hMjjfh buned^nearly two years ago,-*