Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 November 1868 — Page 1

OUT VOLUME I I. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, L86& NUMBER 11.

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WEEKLY

DEMOCRAT

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Iis QimMJirs and Inequalities.

administer the affairs of the American re-' public, only two are voted upon by the I whole electoral peo pie. This fact, none : republican system. The ; popular vote " for president has, in tho gross, no legal existence; sod no eJnctal count makes if known snü 1 reserves its record. A high at authority is interposed above the people r . which revises its action ; this intervening body, whose futi alone hai value, is the Electoral College. Were the ballot of the Electoral (ollMe eoniralent to thut. elf-, j readv cast by toe people, it would require - J 11 . . , , I no criticism, since, very obviously, the ' residential election wt.uid stul ho demo r cs ' cratic iu spira tn u'u not in iorm. ju. , euch is not the historic faet. On the contrary, the vote now thrown by the elected in thei.' respective states, sev.t under; tfa' to Washington, and there opened r.nd counted in presence of eongresi, never is, nnd Derer can Vie a true reflex of the soealled u popular, rote" east the Norember 1 r t ; previous at the polls. r To establish this assertion, it h only 1 aveaeary to eontraat the popular Tote with I the electoral vote at many successive presidential elections. Thirty years' re- j VMWwiU suffice for that purpose. Now. 1 in 1836, tho popular democratic majority ft m. A a ..i . i u Wae nut z,ww in a total vote or over nan a million, while the electoral democratic in i oo i . t,mt ; j f,, majority lo m a total oi -.1, that is to aaw the ratio nf the nuii.tritv to the total büj tne ra..o or uii, M.IJ !. to me mini vote :os;ore lae reorjie was out i ro while the lame ratio before the electors 1 1 wib bo ied ihnn 1 to 6 a ratio one hnn- '' , dred times as great. In 18 10t Hnrriaon-a nanjeeity over Vn Buren was less than

150,000 in a poll of 2. 400.000, or a ratio whole electoral people, .r 1 lo It) ; but his electoral majority was Thai these are easily conceivable crises 174 ewtof 291, or nearly ten times the of eoutse needs no argument. For if, ia pownlai ratio. Tn 1844, Folk receive 1 a I place of the minimnci of votes needed to waaj jrity of 30,006 majority in a poll of lter the result, we use the whole margin 2,G jOL'O say i in GOOj hot his eJecto-J 1 popular majority (say 411,000 in Linml majority was 0.) ..ut ef 275, w letrly coin's ease, in 1864) it may be still more 1 in 4 any, two hundred tin.es the popn- j evident h..vr a candidate may he in a miIsr ratio. In 1852, Pierce's popular fite I nortt before the college. And this, be if 909.009 greatec than Scot's, while both I oberved, ia solely a defect in the system iwached peariy 3,000,0 '0-a ratio ol i tojiUolf, since the eleetore may stricti rcp15; hut hie electoral Tote was 102 greet- resent their constituents, and yet nullify er in a total of 290, or untie nearly ten I the majority given by the people. U limea ns preat. In 1348, 1836, and I860, 124 Jackson bent Adam?, befoie the pc;.ihepoweJai usajmtiea w re antusl the b the ratio of 8 to 2, and the total wndnlales who roeetred maj riiies in tbo democratic vote for tlicre were four chief tullcge. L nc do, iu l-' I, received 1.- candidates bore te the total federal vote 00,452 popular ballots to IXoglaa 1,-jthe saaae penportion. And yet, under the .'-w5,l57 and yet lsij elect oral votes te electoral ayatens inclodiag its appeal te Pwufhae 12. Finally, in 1864, Lincoln congress, Adams was made president. In received 2,223,085 popular vote- to Me- lrf60 an instance of electoral i -..justice not Uselhm'i 1,311.754. aid yet 216 electoral i teas atrikiog was manifeit. This remarkvotes to the ether's 21 22 te 18 in the :.i,lc vote stood as follows :

one cas. but 10 to 1 In the other. It is. therefore, indisputable that the electoral vote invariably an i inevitably differs, and not only differs. Lnt differs enormously i?i resents thfe poj Uttl te.

We meat hear in mind, however, not swept the college by arousing majority; eniy th it these gross remits ealled " pop- that Douglas, though he got two-thirds of Jar rotes hare no legal existence, but I Lineoln'a popular rote, got only one Ifthat even they are not perfectly ju-t expo-1 teenth of bis electoral vote; that Bleckenuents of the will ol the nation. For the ridge, who fell 500,000 rotes behind elective fraaehise varies in the different Douglas, received six times aa many votea atntet and hence a man debatred from in the electoral college; that Bell, who voting for president in one state, might fed nearly 800,000 votes behind louglas. lmve voted in another. This fundamental received three limea as many votes in the suet we shall prasentli have occasion te col'.ege. Indeed, the disproportions are eamntsler, Vwt eren thia does not vary the so ludicrous that without further arguhistoric exhibit just made, though th inent, the table may be left to stand us a elective franehise differs in the various! glaring example ot the aetual occurrence State, yet it may Curly be supposed to! of what we have hitherto exposed only a.vary as much to the detriment of one par-1 clear possibility, namely : a majority can

ty as the other, and hence tLe ratio of! tueir supnoiaies wid not be altered. That is to say, though it is utterly utwi euti ic to add together ail the votes actually thrown for tho same candidate in the various llstes, because the qualification: for voters are differe it, yet it' the same be . deem fof ail candi lutes the in iceuracies! pearly enough cancel each other. It ia J ..... ... i an obvious fact that the SO-Called 11 lar vote," with substuDtial accuracy, rep rcenti the will of thc electoral people and, bene., the electoral vote does not. But a graver defect in the Electoral Collage remains to 1 e considered, namely, that it may conceivably be compelled to el ct the candidate rejected by the people, so far aa the popular vote indicates rejection, and nject th candidate accept ; by the people. To illustrate most p ilp bly this delect, let ue examine the election of 180 1. As this was an overwhelming defeat for MoClellan. who cartied but th.ro 1 states, and 21 electoral retse of the 237, it will furnish a good esamplo for experiment. The Electoral College cast '2o7 vote-, of which a majority i. ., 119, were necessary te a ehoioe. Now bad McClellan received an accession of about 749,000 votes ( or a change of about 35,00') from Lincoln), distributed according to the following table, he would hare carried every one of the states here .auu.u , auu meir eicctorat votes, ad - .nn m Aftft..A.j a t a i n I neu lo ssmae ot the three states he d.d car rj, would have given him the slsetio. . .1 ... I n .ft ....

People's Electors'

Vote. Vote. 8,530 5 5.682 4 2,407 6 6,750 3:J 20,076 20 7,415 7 20,190 13 1.432 3 . 3,233 3 laware, 21 70,663 121

Connecticut. Pennsylvania,. ' ' - Indiana, . . . q,.,.,,, Total . . . Thu?, under the present svptcm, an ac1 - cession of 70.GG5 votes (or a transfer of 35,333 would have made General Mc- ' Ulellaa presid ent in 18 U. and vet he ... . . . jui'j ami n ut; i.iccu ill lue luui iiimiff , pcpular minority of 840,000 vi.tes. Make what allowances we nleao for difhovnees . .. . . . . . . . . ( which either is perfectly sopposable sow. . , , , . or conid be made so by drawing on the . . , ,mft . . . spare margin ot the 810.000 Totesl snows bow the the Elccto:a1 College mL'bt be . . ui i ,i i . . .i compelled to withstand and violate the i , , , .,, r , . ' . palpab.e Will of a clear majontv ot the ft i, people.

1 resident Ltoeoln a majority in IbuL j j 1 , . r . , at all (in hidte ol De Toeoueville's diewas the largest in forty years, at least. . 7 t r , . . , j , 'tum), but threw the election over to a llcniP 11 c Inn.riK ei clirrhr 'v.iii hi hlM

. . . , k. ... . .... . . third body, namely, congress . lost his election, while he still remained! " -' . r . , . On the other hand, f r tlie last thirty! the choice ot the people, it may easily be J imagined that contests i. which popular K"' l' ' 8,ncc 1840 tbcre 1,ave never opinion was more evenly divided, would , 87 cxccp,,ooaI

abow a similar result. For example, in ' , v.. lG, with the accession to Fremont of;pa" " than three beut 1 10,000 votes in the states of Iodi d,dlca f"r P"dent and three for Pennsvlvania nnri Illinois h aronld X1 PrwldcntJ m aI1 bttt :ic eU,ct,on

. I hare swept the electoral college by a Iarire j majority: and vet he would still have been ..-.rt , , . , , mm I 330,000 votes behind Buchanan. The m m , .i ; turning of one state from T Savior to tLis ig of one state from Taylor to Cass im M. yj K , utj4 UIIU 11 'll.'l 1 (lift. IU VWI III p-ia i ,-. i..n. ri :.. 1844 this last by a mere handful of votes would have made l in v and ( ass nresi- i Ue.tr, though Polk and Taylor would ( tili have been the obvious choice of the

People's Electors' vote. vote. Lincoln 1,806,452 ISO Douglaa 1,375,157 12 : Breckeeridge 47.M;");J 72 lJell 590,631 C9 Here we 5ee that Lincoln, wilh a popu-

! hir majority of a million against him. didate hetVre the people being a minority candidate before the electoral coliege. a the presence ol such historic fact-, it becomes a fair question whether the device of the electoral college should not be abolished, leaving tho president to be di rectly ehosen by the people. Ordinarily j . - j , j "j ' it would bs regarded by the disinterested atudant aa n aale proposition that, above all

ptmu-lother officers, the president of the United

Stat i !. ml 1 be, U nearly as practicable, the immediate choice of the jieople of the republic. One political school will reply, however, that tail is not sa; that the foam en of the federation designed the picsident to be chosen not by the whole 1 electoral people, but by thc people of the teveral states aa such ; and not, there lore, to be prcaident of the people but the iresidenl of the stetes, Thia doctrine is furported by political facts. For the i tales BMJ ehoass the presidential electors as the iie, through their legislatures, as in Sooth Carolina, or with any sort ef property or other qualifications they may please to impo.,e upou tho elective franehise, they may suffer men only six feet tall to vote for president. 13ut we may fairly suppose that it. never wn? thft (losirrn of the founders of ttm tve , .i r . ,. , tcm to produce the sort of results which have jut been fet forih. rv , Junes have changed, nud laws may well change with 1 tficrn. Domestic politics iu America have

been metamorphosed since the infancy of, thc republic- Thc nominating convention 'ryrrs

now ery3talizos I party around a man it

:j : i r Ii u I jorityof the suffrages of 1 great people; and this diffieultv is enhanced in a rem-.b- ,. c , , . , . lie oi confederate states, where heil inflaences are far more developed and more ' . 1 L rmwiT inM if w:u Ti'v-.( ii...i n in i, .. . ... delegate the electoral powers ot the Da-1 tioo to a body which should ; .present it," because "'this mode et election rendered a imaioritv more nrobable there probable." That was the theory of the electoral college, and early practice snstained it; since the first body of the kind, that of 17S0, found uo less than eleven candidates for ?iee president before if : the one which " elected John Adams had twelve other candidates for president and vice president : 1 ; .....1 t ' .. ,.-.v ...!. .. ..t.-.l.. f t hn f it 1 RAA if Vi Ilm firo Vio in.l-ir,.! nn v . ' 1 1 J ! two candidates, as the third polled bn t i 1 . , liandi ul oi Votes, eanyinu; hot a single ' J s . 15 state; while the most recent elections, those of 1861 and 1S6S, show but one can 1 didatc on each side ra J "n '""I v 1 II into two Rreat Mlt,leS, VerJf enough wee , . , I ..: in ice lauu. in never re: ran to the state of politics under which the elect-; oral college was framed, because the tendency is the other ways, But, merely to abolish the electoral colI a (ri tli.. . 'i r I. 'l w Iii. Vi tirf ihivmaIi .f sell would not radically cure the errors , . . ,. - n , . . here pointed out The effect of this abolition would obviously be as Bj a rely to imp se hi a state governor or ether officer the duty of castinc the votes now thrown vi ino cioviuis oi i.iiii .iii'i . i 'i , nun i . . . .i i . i we resort to counting ii.e popular v i:e. that device would now be Utterll uuscicti- ' uue mcapeuteui, ueeaase oi ie u.iferences iu the elective franchise in differ-; ent f:.: es. What, then, is thc true remedy ? It is to abandon the idea that the president being the president of Mate, and make him the president of the people; to create an uniform qualification for voters at the presidential election throughout the land ; and to incorporate this provision for a new national elective franchise, with itqoalifiealions there defined, in the s:ime constitutional amendment which shall abolish the electoral college. Am Old and Trci rnirND. A gen- i tleman played IT" a rich iokv on his better-half the other day. Being some what of an epicure, he took, it int . his head that morning that he should like a first rate dinner. So he sddreseed her a note politely informing her that a gentleman bf her ncquaintance an old and true friend would dine with her that day. As soon as she received it. all hands went to work to get ... . , T, . , A 'very thiuir u order. 1 recisely at 1 , , , , , , clock she was prepared to receive her cv 1 he house was as neat as a new ,. .1,1, p.n, a sumptuous dinner was on the table. i , i . . . and she was arrayed in her lest attire. A gentle knock was heard, and she started, with a palpitating heart, to the door. She thought if must be an old friend perhape a brother, from thc place whence they once moved. On opening the door, she saw her husband, with a smiling countenance, " VY by, my dear," said he, in an an tious tone, ' where is tli2 gentleman of whom you spoke in your note?" Why," replied tho faUobsnd, complaeently, "'here he is. 4tYou said a gentleman of my acquaintance an old and true friend would dine with us to-day." "Well," said he, good bumercdly; "am I not a gentleman of your acquaintance, an old and true IriendT" 4:Oh!" she cried, distressingly; "is there no body but you!'" "Xo." "Well, I declare, this M too bad," said his wife in an angry tone. The husband laughed immoderately, but. finally, they sat down cosily together, and, for ones, ho had a good dinner without having company. Floi ida has a population of 15,000 Segroea, counting men women and children. Hut Gen. Meade has mauaged to find 10,000 negro voters out ofthat number of he, she and baby negroes. Meade is a smart fellow at cheating ami doios the . .... "r,11 mit riiai worK oi nis inieruai master. It .

ke were a dog he might be a success, but1 WüU,aü as af,,'CarS " an writings i! 1.1 1. n .t

an a man, he is a failure. The World heads an article 41 Penn sylvania onec more to the breath."

CaiJ Ä3;miilf?;i filvrs nn Iciour.l

m."-seii. 11 The Eminent Women of the Aire" is the title of a volume on thf point of pub- , fr ,. i i t IMtlUH X l. VI IWIIIIB. XV ir IU VjU il - tain sketches of all the female colebrites, and promise.- to be very spicy. ('Jail Hamilton is sketched by Fanny Fern. The following is a portion of the correspondence thereupon, and savors of cinnamon, cloves, and all pungest spices. It is takeu from Finny Fern's preface. Will 1 write a sketch of Gail Hamil- ' tor v Will I touch off a parrott gun? I i iiiiiuui, auu in ii im i t i. ...;n w y.;..', r r ,n iirt,v. . - ever, 1 ventured to send the following mis-1 S1VC . I "My deer Mi, Podge, otherwise Gail Hamilton; a book is in prospect Many of our well-known literary people are to write! for it. Its title is to he 'Eminent women oftheae.' You and I are to be in it. I am to do JOW. Who is to serve me up, j the gr'ds only know. Will yu be good j enough to inform me. at your earliest conveniencc, when and where you tttt your first tooth, whether you had the measles j before the mumps, or the mumps before the measles; also, any other interesting I items about yourself. IV l iliug about you will be a labor of love with me i for although a stranger to you, aave through your writings, I rejoice every day in your existence. Please send an early answer. YoUlS, iYA, FANNY FERN." I a few days I received the following reply 11 M DEAR MlSS PERN: The Coolness . , . . , . of New Yorkers 1J SS ton IS III 11 1 You are ' about to burn mc a: the stake, and will I h c the goodness tc send on shavings aud dry wood by the next mail ? f,u. .1 T j ii a n iv o ii iii h a in , l - . r 1 -1 TT I I Ii e and m: criii.'' ot 'oi:i Hamilton, written by ite!f, an I with former trans lations dilligently compared and revised. To the best of RtJ knowledj nnd belief I I was born in the Now York Independent lorns time during the latter half of the nivaoni i-iinrv. niol In-fore the InucDcnd1 . . r out Lad been annexed to thc dominions ol . ... . . ..'!.. Theodore, Kins ol Abyssinia, against whom the great powers have just advanced ! an v l 'i i i f 1 n fl O: Ii 1 . L ' riiuuM.iiicnu.M , ui linnat I olwMitj I v ril .i bi.rn ii t!:. natlitnal rra. So I must he twine. On that ' ! ground it bs I never been satisfactorily i settle 1 whether I am snyaalfoc Mrs. Simp ! -,,. m... d: B, oi . asiiingioa. ii i am i'ii. ..i..:ij - , ; - m, I am the wife of an officer who, to s . ' .aA - a ft k . I bis manite regret, was not killed in the I late unpleasantness, and am a lineal deigeendaBt ef.that Simple Simon who once j went a fifth ing for to catch a whale, though all the water he bad was ii his mother' pail. If I am not Liuncelot, nor another, but only my own -elf. I r:m like Melchisedek, without father, without mother, with,,ut descent, a:. 1 my euemlea fear, also, I 'nave uo end of life. Oa one point comin rj r i : . rs aurced.that I am not an eminent ...... . Woman of my time, aud therefore 1 have no part nor lot in your bowk. In fact 1 am Weither sun raw tromna, I am ueltber brate nor haaun, 1 Jiia a ;;huiil ! And all that I ask is to be let alone. From the Independent I graduated into thc Congregationalist of blessed memory ; and from the Bra I paddled over imo the Atlantic. I flourished iu immortal rig r on thc cover of our Young Folks, and at sundry times and in divers other manners and J , ' places nave, 1 fear, contributed to the dc1 I tar!nrl!nll nf nur Volilb I s.:li!lv PrkTlTiiCS ' also, that I am gully of as many books as 1 Mrs. Rogers had small children : but being j r WlItten W !VC- !'ml !u of IUCokßCSS' the-' WW heW ,n ki8h eHtCem W" P1 of men- VhcreUI,t0 1 lbu add likc ,St" 1UU'' that which C'nncth "P0- m dailv. the care of all churches Such, unhappy fsllow-suffercrt, is my thrilling atory. If any one of you shall add unto these things, let him tremble, lest T imprecate upon him all the plagues of tho Apocalypse; aud if any person shall saddle 00 any other man or woman sittS which 1 alone have perpetrated, I say pro;h 'tically to tjuch saddler, Lord Angus, thou hast 1 am, very respectfully, GAIL HAMILTON. Respect fully, that U, if you respect my rights ; but I shall have a life long quarrel even with you, if you spread before the public anything which I myself have not given to thc public. 1 have rua!!' very sl rong opinions on that point; and, notwithstanding its commonness, I consider no crime more radically heinous than the violation of privacy. YuU UlUSt have sufleeed from ii too severely yourself to be surprised at any abhorrence of it on my part. I most heartily with you could find it in your plan to leave me out in Hie cold. Of course, if you Judge from my writing., tint I am a woman, you can say what you please about that woman, tint

writer, and I have neither the wish norjt,,cv took P4 0,1 the"' tt5,lJcr" ol tho right to say you nay. So much of thc I another locomotive, thereby reaching Braa

is public property by her own free will All the rest belongs to her reserved rights. I pray you to speak, if ppcak you muat, so wisely as to make this clear! Launeh

ou find fit ; but read the preface of my first book, ' I il'intrv T.ivinr onil P.mnlrv T 1, i n L- ! n rt ' , i- ,. , -Tl and govern y ou-elf accordingly ; and I - ,it shall be, without aoy coudi'. ion, and pos itively the last tini3 , Yours, very truly, gail Hamilton." A sipppy Brielefrreoni. A voiinc naanla rpoilmi it t.nvincfrn .e r, . e . Kv., determined to elope recen'lv, aud i - ' 1 J' accordingly started tor Cincinnati on the afternoon tram, and in uue time arrived i it ti s .s aI at me rr)cueer house, t ie raradise o; r i - r lovers, mo two were young ami exceedingly rural, and their eonduet feoeei oonvinc-1 ed the initiated attendants at tho hotel that ! Aey had been thwarted in their hymori,, ! inclinations by hard-hearted parents and j . . , v guardians, opposed to what is satirically called the "decrees of heaven." The emotions betrayed by tke fugitives were various; modest M the extreme, they were unable to conceal their fondness from the guests in the drawing-room, mingled. with a sort of triumph at their success and 1 fear lest they might be overtaken, at once enlisted the sympathies of all who observed them. At length 'he young man went to the office and inquired for tho proprietors, alleging that he had some private buisness which could be transacted with no other parties. The clerk stated that nei iher of them were iu but that he could and would attend to anything the ruralist might unfold. Of this toe young man seemed skeptical, and commenced pacing the floor, exhibiting the greatest restlessness, and inally enter-1 ed the drawiogroom, from which he again issued after a short consultation, and, ap-! preaching the clerk, said : ''Sir. there's a lady in the room ; nbe wanes 10 marry mo ana t want to mi a j IT arrJ her bad ; can you do anything for us?" , V', V 3 The clerk replied that everything should arranged in a abort time, and in less L it. . . - be !than an hour the ceremony had been performed and the happy couple unite j by thc lirmest ties that toe aw recoirn'zes .,- Seen after, the bridegroom approached , . . 1 . the tics ot the omee, and commenced looking over the register. r..- Iff i he clerk in- ' urn, i n ii u iu u'jaiio i, ;i;u iciuiiua io i II J .u 1 L . 1 ! J , rAnlv tb k h.- nnlv riohnl tn wo- fli. ml. rals. But hir manner betrayed the fact that his min 1 was not c 1ST ; but what his troubles were no one knew- After walk- : it. jbI'.-.- i ... . . lugai rj.i i uie vut?c lor ao ui iwcr.y m;nlutes, ha repairel to the b :c again, and . i s . .a '4 . t a " said to the clerk in a low tone : ': Ha lu't you better change the register j and giro us this room, new we're ' neu' "

thunderbolts, or sing songs, is v

! M That is already changed," replied the aaost dr-aliul lying of the mongrel press, j clerk "You arc marked for the Mane" the art of misrepresentation."' room." The It. Y. Herald says : ': Thc demWell,' replied the gratified Kentock-1 ö 'tf thetnselres, ia the late ian, surprised at such thoughtfnloess, I cleetjOBgi a llilt to despised." M well, just show me up, for I'm awful ' XVn tVn A M A

I i .. " (iji . T. ! . !.. . ii is unnecessary to add matnts reqeest was granted, aud that in a few minutes he! was r Btixa

was reposing in the arms of Morpheus orlusuiai w umua me

m m m Apropos of the Spanish revolution,; J he remarked that two curious facts connected with the history of Spain illes-1 t rates a curious feature in the character of Its people the reverence for royal t? 1 ; O'n .. ',.. ... . i , c a .1 . ; I "lUX "vm U1 luv Blucr uniries

. f 1. - O. r. l .1 I. . ... , . , iouis Ä IV. upon their hands Again it J is remembered that for i thousand years there has been no popular attempt, save the present one, to drive royalty from the throne of Spain. Changes of dynasty have occurred, from osnses arising outside, I e " but there is no former instance where an internal commotion against the crown has arisen. Buckle has noticed thia bump of patriotism in the Spaniards. It has been a passion with them fur ages ; but it seen:-; that the wearisome career of the dissolute 1 isabell a ha I tired out their stience A private dinner came olf at Prorideuee, ft. I., ou Wednesday last, Qee. Burneide hsving often dined with the l'ui - on club of Xew York, invited 1 1 or 11 of the club to visit him. The combined wealth around him at the table was $200,000,000. The banouet was the most complete ever given in the state. A litJe incident occurred on the homeward trip of the guests which is also worthy of mention. They left Providence by the steamboat train ou the BrUtol road. Just as they rsaehod tho railroad bridge, the loom jive ran otf the track, and there was a prospect at on 3 time that tho mtllionnties would go no f"rlll0r ,oW:,rJ homo 0,1 th lt ni-ht With a littlo of that energy and determination which has secured for most of them these prestntti disagutshsd posiüeas in ciety to! just in season for thc hoat. The Commercial Alvcrticr says there is no lifo in the republican Saftf in New York city, Is that what makes thc concern smell re ba 1 'i

oi jjurope, i "C ci wtiocsscu mc as- j Yorks until ten -forty at night. We bet saisinatlon or execution of a reigning lc .:n U))t snpport (hc bondholder's parmonarch. Impetuous as the Spaniard are fv supposed to be, they have the crimson Im . , , .. ' - 1 he mulattos ar.d negroös of llavti ..:., i , rk. .. .... t .a. ii ti- j

IT ILMS.

One of the Graut elector.-? in Alabama fa democratic lamination, u Negro t?ufis indicted tor murder. ' frasa is abhorrent to uv feelinwa." Hut Horatio .Seymour is fifty-seven years ( new negro suffrage is like a balm to Mi 0f a"C. soul, or what is better for him, like a swig -London has a home for lost and starv-j o wh5sk' to bi?i

in" dt-'s fotud iu the streets.. Another Fenian scarce is convulsing Cana ... . Senator Trumbull's wile died at! vr i i km . u it . .. U ashinton. on the loth nit. Her rem, 11.1 i.i.i.u tuii. i.uuu )tu iu i-. .iiiili,'.i". Illin ois. Indian troubles in western Kansas arc serious. LIJU1U J UOUUitJ ill llUIJ.il." Wl ' Bcn- liutlcr thrown iVom his carriage and badly hurt. Beverdy Johnson, minister to the ;wullul wswi ou tlielfthu.lt. The Adams express company was robbed of 17,000 at St. Louis, on Friday. last. r;mada has prohibited the importation 0r horned cottle, on account of tho cattle disease. Recently a Toledo firm telegraphed to New York and received an anawer in twenty minutes. Queen Isabella had 1T0 carriages. These she could not take with her, and the canaille of Madrid amuse themselves ! uy t:iu,o naca m tlie ru3"al vehicles Esra Rosbrook, now living at Princeton, Wis., built the first steam-saw mill in j the tinted btates. , The largest cattle owners in Texas King & Co., of Corpus Christi. Their stock and herds number 36,000. g l'uc Hartford Times is charitable. j It tli.lk, thc N foolish. Y. World is honest but ! A dispatch says : uHon. Schuyler Colfax, while waiting for a train in BaftV j . dcovcrcd by thc bH 1 A war democratic Grant and Colfax meeting waa he u at Cooper Institute Last week, by a small number of incurables. I : That is the natural aavlum of all the ein. ..." imniiAAM nui.f -ti '..in' kaI ..1,.h . '.VIIM' '' I...;i. V Uli 'v.lll - Illlt ll...(lllI 0 ..1 , ('.-. ..Il.or. i U ..... i.I . - .1 jiuui ui ...inn. .USIU9CIIUI ai uujio' erat s. An old Indian who had witne se 1 the effycts of wll'l-J7 for many years, said that a l'iirrcl r whisky contained a thousand ma and fifte fi.rU. ' or j -o More than enough naturalised eitiI a - - . k - tens were denied the right to vote ml ; Philadelphia to have earned the state tri-mar-Jnmphantly. An amiable southern editor calls thc ii , iii;ii '.ii'. uon Hi lub I .ii i Y UiU 1 U turn l!ir HYimiilSlliftnl 'v.... I . . . .. . . I '.II , 1, . I The mongrel lecture committee have, i i i . . a l .1. . j aDoniinaoie nonsense ol l etroieum Masoy upon the people this winter. An editor in BalUmore, who must have been asleep, like a secoud Hip Van winkle, ia astonished at the ties of Foraeya press An humorous laboring man says, he ; ,ets ttp at five-twenty in the morning, and linrl u iininKci 1 o 11 11'n t ir..t'iir nn liii-mo 1. 1.. mm .h..vw.w.t v .. . w w Vft VW ll HM ... ,., . j 01 pvuuvai cijuiuij-. iav:ii; lis iL.iii) u j war of mccs or of easts, aud will be uutil one or the other is exterminated. - Dana, tho onnonent of Kaller for eon - gress wrote " Three Vv ars Before the i -Ai;liit-" Butler ought to write a book cutit'ed "One Year iu a Spoon Chest." Sumner's organ in I ton comes cut for Butler, and against Dana. Sumner is, therefore, going over to the spoons policy of Butler. The Hartford Times says the New York World is inclined to exhibit itself sa the harlcquim of the political press. La it "o-t a miserable sink, full of slops and dirty water " The Buaalo Courier gives the New York World credit for the best intentions, but impeaches its judgment- And hv believing in the g o I intentions of that .Judas of the press, it impe,! lies its own judgment. A fellow who ran r.way from Boston to escape tbc impoit unity of his numerous creditors, is now treasurer ef the state of South Carolina. Forney says, M Wc are for equal rights." that is, taking thc right of voting away from the white--, aud giving it to the uegroes. Brownlow ISjfS, "I would rather go to hell with a ley il negro, than to heaven with a copperhead.'' MM.- .1. . rt .1 .'W i ue sue negroes oi in;s eny rjUiTC generally adopt the "Grecian ben " Ought it not now be calf el the Black

Said Graut, whom he was Ghiug f r

leu thousand black noL'rr.cs voted for the white negroes in Ohio at the late election, in violation of law. The expenses of the hoUN of Uepresentattves have In ere eat d per year, for the la-t four years, $189,350, making in the four years the sum of 8758,433. This must be w hat radicals call " rijrid ccdujsay. The Union Pacinc railroad i now jnruning to a point 1,890 mJei real of Chiengo, and within 150 mi'es of Salt I Lake. - A. large number of deai ahad Were recently picked up on the Connecticut shoals at Cromwell, Conn., killed by hot weather. Hot weather in Franklin county. Me., killed thousands of ILh in the ponds, an I at Raugely, cart loads nf beautiful "peckled trout drifted ashere. A Ten adhere editor notices with regret tho necessity he was lately under to refuse an order for job printing. Tho customer wanted a daguer reoty poi Colorado has 18,000 acres in ttbcat and 18,000 seres iu corn, the present year. A man in Cape (Tod ha ing adteilired his wif as having left his bed and board, she retorts that she went away for a couple of weeks to enm her beard, amsl Unat the bod belongs to her mother. The young lady who sang " I wish somebody would come," has had her desire gratified. Eleven country cousins neve arrived, and intend to .stay all summer. An exchange, describing a celebra j tion, says: "The proccsmn was very fim re-land r. early two miles in length, as was a! L the prayer of Dr. Perrv.the nlmplnin ' tion, says : " The procesaion w:is very fine A person paastttg through a ov rtain I town, and observing u; n a door the name t f u Harwell," remarked that the gentleman's name would be tj wc'l without the If. An eld offender eras recently introduced to a new county justice as John Simmons, alias Jones, alias Smith u 111 j try the ' bring two women first," said the jnetien, in Ali ice -J ones They have a new drink down east which they call u Butler Cocktails." ' ik ft a sou stir op with n pron at sunt one eye, and put the Spoon iu your pocket.

An oM lady awwowweed m cmrt at I Atlanta, that she had no lawyer, but that

Glod was bet lawyer. M My dear madam," replied the judge, uhe noes net prnetsee iu tliis c,ur1.'' -A loony mongrel editor in Illinois, ! roadiofjr thc results of the late sTeetisssa, basale his article in brwu enna. M GLarv In : rj - - i - - j God oa High."' The fool is thauking (he wrong in .:i . John . Rlair, the mongrel wtasee for governor of Xew Jersey, recently called upon to speak in I wigwam, Legan by saying : " Geatlemen, 1 have ?aw real wigwams," and several times in his sj cech, he repeated such specimewa of grammar as M I have saw "' It is luekv for such an ignoramus that the eonstitntion of New Jersey does not require its i wersi r to sneak and write the Knirlish (anemae-e cor ii a o rectly. fhc transfer of the 1 1 u laoo Bay rnanpany's territory to the Canad an govirumcnt renders probable an un looked for v. . ui v. v. ' , 11 an nil I.UIUIII I u IfllllOft . W' I I 1 1 I - r,., i, ... 1 ililiinn v inl 1 t ui in imhc m Ivi'ii-.li .-il. .iurihj, a iiv; ii;io-"u iijj 1 uij.aiiy uas never acknowledged Indian rights or title te the land iu which the company has ! eretoforft collected its furs, u, r hm there been any treaty or friendly sodcistanding with the Iudiaus. Ttie opening ot their lauds now to settlers threatens difficulties with the Indians, and the proposition it made to take mcaxures to settle the tribes on reserves set apart for them. Besse years ag 1 Yankee fell into the river and was drowuc I. N t long after wards, his neigbbors found his body ai d t was fuii 0f eels. They took it b me te j i,js ariaWw. eels sad all, and told her 1 it wns. " NYell," .'ays sb.c, " give me the eels and set him a ; tin." -Gen. Logan says ia a bullying tone thsl he " Would lie under an impr.Iatioo." Why, the raaeal will do worse than ihat, he Wtfl lie under oath. A darkey presented himself at tbe ofieeol registration ia Row Orfeawe, wIkb this eonrersstisn ehansd : What'a rsnW name t Sam Jones, sar. Where do you stay ? Cp here a piece, sar. K hat street!' Duane, f-ar. W hat ward Clean forgot, sar. How long have you been in the city? Mos a b and red ear. Wi at did you come here for ? Des ssy ef I come here I'd it that mule, snre ! 1W bound to hah him, bos-. (Exidanatiou government tuiJcs given I f .r votes ) ftnat-