Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1879 — Page 2

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General News Sumrary.

teat. Tfisyasjtfcat tfca autow« aatli fa dead earnest Mm taffiar part at Oriofcer. aad thdwtae OHtwt last spring fee will «o tUi falL Tit aeiaKet, Wtenr, vfß not *Ol nobvteewloM. Tn ttttaUot ot itweltiy Sherau knit had directed tfiattke sOwer dollar should ■ot be wtdnJ by the Treasury la certain caeca, he elated oa the 11th that the aaaerHoa vaa absolutely lake, aad without a ■had am at tawdatioa; that the taw ■sheathe Mrcr dollar a legal leader lor all purposes, aad U has ahraya bees received by the Treasury la payment ot flewawds at every kind, aad aa (ally aad fraety aa gold coin. A Washisortni tpedal ot the Uth aaya It had been decided to appoint ex-Governor Fertoa, of Me* Tort, aa Mtwlater to Great B* > Secwetabt Bcacaz baa recently dir -ted the tale ot Kansas trust sad diminish A reserve leads to actual settle ra. A cncciAi has been Issued by Director Ot the United States Mints w*Ui a vie* to preparing statistic* relative *o the production and consumption ot gold and direr, asking those who are employed in the arts and manufactures to furnish statements showing their yearly or monthly average consumption of United States coin, native bullion and metals obtained from old manufactured articles. The fullest specific information on these points is regarded of vast importance In its bearing upon the economic history of the metallic currency of the country. Is his printed report for 1877 the Commissioner of Education shows the income for aO the States and Territories (Wyoming not included) to be £41,806,106; expenditures (Wyoming not included) £9),233,458. School population for thirty-eight States and Territories, 14,737,748; number of normal schools, 152, with 1480 instructors, 37,082 pupils and 3,783 graduates, of whom 1,874 are teaching. Ohio reports the greatest number of normal schools—fourteen. » The East. Th* Oneida Community of Oneida County, N.JT-, have recently resol red to abandon the -complex marriage system, “in deference to the public sentiment which is evidently rising against it.” The Community is hereafter to consist of two distinct classes- the married aad the celibates—both legitimate, but the last preferred. The news from the election In Maine on the morning of the 9th Indicated a plurality for the Republican candidate for Governor of ■bout 20,000 over the Greenback candidate, sad about 40,000 oTer the Democratic candidate. On Joint ballot the Legislature will be largely Republican. Davis (Republican) for Governor will probably lack between 2,000 and 3,000 of having a majority over both competitors. Four steamers arrived at New York on the 10tb, from Europe, with #4,881,800 in coin and bullion from England, France and Germany, to pay balances on trade account. The announcement vaa made on the 11th that the promoters of the negro exodus would bold a convention at Philadelphia on the 15th of October. A Jebset Citt (N. J.) telegram of the 11th says the improvement in the Iron trade had induced the owners of one of the largest torn*era in the State to put it in blast, after idleness. A large force of men were preparing to work. When in operation the firnace gives employment to many hundred bands. <

The Democratic BUte Convention of New York vu held at Byracuf e on the 10th and lIUI A platform waa adopted demanding hooeat elections and an honest coant of votes; opposing aU faToriUsm, and declaring that no - single interest or class of persons should be protected at the expense of any other; declaring a belief in gold and silver as the Constitutional money of the country, and condemning the speculative methods of the present Secretary of the Treasury, and the questionable favoritism he has shown to particular monetary institutions and so-called syndicates, and the extravagance he has permitted in his Department In connection with his refunding schemes; looking “with shame and sorrow on the disgraceful repudiation of the professions of Civil-Service reform by the Executive and his supporters,” and declaring that the 104,000 Federal officers constitute an army which is being used to keep the Republican party in power; etc. After the platform was read and adopted nominations for Governor were made amid considerable excitement, the Anti-Tammanyitesnoml-T nating Governor Robinson and the Tammany men General 11. W. 81ocum. A motion was then made to nominate State Senator John C. Jacobs (the Chairman of the Convention) by acclamation, which motion was, amid much' { confusion, declared by •he Secretary to have been carried. As soon as order could be restored Mr. Jacobs said if be bad been consulted concerning the nomination which had been made he would have declined it. A moUcn was subsequently made and carried to call the roll for nomination for Governor, pending which the Tammany delegation, headed by Messrs. Dorsheimer and Schell, who emphatically declared that under no circumstances would the Democracy support Governor Robinson—retired from the halL The vote on the nomination for Governor was then taken and resulted as follows: Robinson, 23; Slocum, 58; scattering, 2. The nomination of Mr. Robinson was then made unanimous. Clarkson N. Potter w*s nominated for Lieutenant-Governor; Allen C. Beach, for Secretary of Btate; James Mackln, for State Treasurer. Tbs Tammany bolters from the New York Democratic State Convention assembled in an • adjacent hall on the afternoon of the- 11th, and organised an independent Convention. David Dudley Field was chosen Chairman. John Kelly was nominated for Governor, and accepted tn a speech In which he promised that Robinson should be defeated. A corn- . mitt ® e <* fifteen was raised to select the remainder of the ticket, and the Convention adjourned. The Massachusetts Greenbackers met in State Convention in Boston on the 12th and nominated General B. F. Butler for Governor and Wendell Phillips for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor. The Maryland Republicans met in State Convention at Baltimore on the 12th. Ex-Postmaster-General Creswell was first nominated'for Governor, but declined, and James A. Gray was nominated. Resolutions were adopted deprecating Democratic assaults upon the parity of the ballot-box; favoring the National Election laws; condemning the Democracy for their conduct at the extra seeMon of Congress; etc., etc. ‘ Aocordixo to a New York dispatch of the 12th ex-Governor John T. Hoffman had resigned as Sachem of the Tammany Society and would support Robinson for Governor. The Produce Exchange of New York has Issued a circular to the manufacturers of flour throughout the country, asking them to put 200 pounds at flour in each barrel intended for the New York market, and mark the weight on each package.

Wlgiy 1 HagT MmT Good, aheap were quoted at Good.

Gart Gart West and South. Dnoomr ni made MTenl days ago of a konfUt triple sarder which had beea coot■dtted at WaynearlUe, Ohio, the deed bodice of a Mn. Hatte, her sister Mr*. Clementine Weeks aad the daughter of the latter, aged etna jean, betas food la the dwelling of Mn. Hatte, where they had evidently laia tor aoeae time after the perpetration of the erhae. Suspicion fell oo William E. Anderson, eighteen yean of ace, a aoo of Mn. Hatte by her ftrrt ha abend, who waa the only other oecnpent of the dwelling at the time of the anuder. It was subsequently ascertained that William, who. after the discovery of the bodies, bad gone to Cincinnati, committed silicide by drowning himself In a water-tank at Plainrtlte. On the 4th D. R. Anderaon, father of William, who reside* In Cincinnati, was arrested sad taken to Waynesrille, under suspicion that be might have had something to with the terrible crime; bat there were many who did not believe him guilty or that be had any guilty knowledge of the affair. A idle of vile literature baa been found, belonging to the young man Willie. It contains papers with flashily-beaded atrocities, pictures of fights by land and sea, where daggers, bowie-knives and pistols flash and gleam in the bands of men and boys whose faces betoken nothing but the basest instincts. He it said to have been a constant reader of dime novels, and it is thought that his mind had been poisoned and rendered morbid by what It Iras fed upon.

Tbs canvass of the vote cast in San Francisco at the recent election was completed on the Bth, showing the following result: The Workingmen elect the Mayor, Sheriff, Auditor, Treasurer, Tax Collector, Public Administrator, Surveyor, District, City and County Attorneys, Police Judge, one Supervisor, five members of the Board of Education, and a Railroad Commissioner for the City District The Republicans elect the Assessor, Recorder, Coroner, County Clerk, Superintendent of Schools, Superintendent of Streets, eleven Supervisors, seven members of the Board of Education, s member of the State Board of Equalisation, and re-elect Congressman Davis. The returns from the State at large received up to the evening of the Bth left no doubt that Perkins and the Republican State ticket bad carried the State by from 20,000 to 23,000 plurality. It was conceded on all bands that the Republicans had elected all the Congressmen.

The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Madison on the 9th, and nominated, by acclamation, Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, for Governor. The resolutions declare tbe Union to be Indissoluble, and that the National Government la, within the limits of the powers delegated by tbe Constitution and its amendments, supreme; that all powers not thereby delegated to the United States, □or prohibited to tbe States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people; denounce the course of the Republican party in tbe “use of the military to overawe electors and control elections,” etc.; declare the inauguration of Mr. Hayes “tt»' the Presidential office, to which Mr. Tilden was constitutionally elected,” to have been the “highest crime ever successfully perpetrated against the spirit of the Institutions of republican liberty;” denounce and condemn whatever of intimidation, violence and fraud has been practiced by lawless and' unscrupulous partisans on either side, and wherever done; declare the payment of any claims of any character to Btate or Individuals engaged in or supporting the late rebellion, resulting from or growing out of tbe injury or destruction of property In tbe war;, declare that tbe Constitutional currency of the country, and the basis of all other, should be goliMtod silver coin, and that all National Treasury notes and authorized currency should be convertible into the same on demand; etc., etc. The Maiyland Greenback-Labor party held a State Convention at Baltimore on the 10th and nominated Howard Meeks for Governor. The customary resolutions were mdopted. The Expoeition at Cincinnati was formally opened on the 10th. President Hayes was among the distinguished visitors present He was received in a welcoming address by tbe President of the Exposition Board, and responded in a short speech.

The prosecution in the case of Henry J. Gully, on trial for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, rested its case on the 10th. The object had been to establish a conspiracy on the pan of defendant and others to kill Judge Chisholm, Gilmer and Rosebaum, and that, in carrying out the conspiracy, Cornells and other persons were killed. The defense bad a number of witnesses to testify. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention met at Lincoln on the 10th and made the following nominations: Supreme Judge, E. Wakely; Regents of the University, Dr. A. Bear and A. J. Sawyer. District Judicial nominations were also made In the First, Third and Fourth District*. Tbe resolutions adopted affirm the time-honored principles of the party; deprecate the violation of Indian treaties by the Government; declare that the military should be in strict subordination to the civil power; deny the right of the Federal Administration to keep an army to control the vote of tbe people; insist upon a free ballot, and oppose the appointment of officers \o control elections;. demand economy in the administration of affairs, and arraign the Republican party of the State and Nation for ita wasteful extravagance; etc., etc. Alexander Mitchell, recently nominated to the Governorship by tbe Wisconsin State Democratic Convention, has cabled from London his final and abaolute declination. He says be will not serve If elected. At De Kalb, Miss., on tbe 12th, the jury in the case of Henry J. Gully, charged with the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, after deliberating for less than half an hour, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The theory of the defense was that the parties who came armed to the town had done so simply to assist the Bheriff in the arrest of the parties charged with the murder of John Gully, in case they should resist, and that there was no premeditated design or conspiracy to take the life of any one; that the defendant had himself no gun at the time of the shooting of Miss Chisholm, and that he invoked the crowd who were just about to shoot at Judge Chisholm to leave the Jail and go away.

i? has been decided to hold a grand reunion of the prisoners of war daring the rebellion, In Toledo, Ohio, on the Ist and 2d of October. There will be a parade, addresses and a banquet. William Keene, Assistant Cashier of the Minneapolis (Minn.) Northwestern National Bank, has been arrested upon the charge of embezzling #185,000 of the funds of that institution. He lost tbe money tn wheat deals. Mrs. Bonesteel, of Fort Sedtt, Kan., killed her two children on the 13th, and then attempted suicide by hanging. Before life was extinct she was discovered and cut down. She claimed to be insane because her husband had deserted her.

On Urn hit day of the wimsMrrwn were books, pamphlets aad papers, Irrespective of views they may contain,” so that the St mahnsa a i eriewce may ha flawed oa aa may other laeawa. at oboecae literature, whether “htaphned” or “aataopirad;** demanding the repeal at the law* regarding obscene Steretare until certain pa mages in the public offices who will publicly declare for the absolute secularisation of the Government. The President of the League was authorised to call a National Convention at fata discretion to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President in 188 a On the 14th a resolution was presented by Colonel Ingersoil and unanimously adopted expressing the deepofc sympathy with D. M. Bennett and family, for the

reason that “be has been convicted by religious bigotry sad ignorant seaL and has been imprisoned and is now languishing in the cell of a felon, when, in truth and fact, he has committed no offense whatever against any law of the country.” A very lengthy preliminary, declaration and platform of the National Liberal party was adopted, after the passage of a resolution that the National Liberal League affiliate with all liberal bodies. The.* platform declares, among other things, that to realize more fully than has ever yet been done the main object of a government by the people as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the preamble to the Constitution, a new party is necessary. An Associated Press dispatch says the Socialist element was largely predominant in the second day’s session, snd at times the Convention was exceedingly boisterous. IB Chicago, on September 13th,Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 9S@93Jtfe eash: 93%@9»Hc for October; 94*«9i*c for November. Cash Corn closed at 33)4 tor No. 2; 344534)4c for October; 33%® 3334 c tor November. Cash Oats No 2 sold at 23)4(5,23340; 24J4@24*e seller October; 2531534 c for November. Rye No 2,52 c. Barley No. 2,75376 c. Cash Mess Pork dosed at #& 25(58 27. Lard, cash, 65.7535.7734- Beeves —Extra brought (5.004 5.25; Choice, 64.5034 75; Good, *4.10® 4.40; Medium Grades, fS. 2533.80; Batchers’ Stock, *2.4532 90. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.25 33.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, 13.00(33.80. Sheep—Poor to Choice. 2.50(34.25.

The Yellow Fever. There were eleven patients in tbe yellow fever quarantine hospital at New Turk on the Bth, three having been admitted that day. Twenty new cases (twelve white) and ten deaths occurred in Mem; his on the 9th. There were sixty-five deaths from yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, daring the week ending on the fitb. Organizations for the purpose of securing aid for the relief of the suffering people of Memphis have been formed in many Northern cities and towns, and contributions are flowing in quite freely. It was stated on the 10th that all fears of yeilow fever in Washington had subsided, and it was then generally believed in medical circles that the disease woul not spread much outside of Memphis a d New Orleans. Ox the 10th the Cairo Board of Health Removed all quarantine restrictions on tr#ns except from Memphis. Health certificates were, however, required. The Vice-President and Sanitary Director of the Auxiliary Sanitary Association of New Orleans stated on the 10th that no one in that city had been attacked by yellow fever since September 1. Not a single case was then known to exist in the city. The Association protested to the National Board of Health against New Orleans being considered an infected c'ty. Fifteen new cases (eleven colored) and eight deaths were reported in Mealphia on the 11th. The Preachers’ Aid (colored) had appealed for pecuniary aid. They had 150 orphans under their care. All remittances should be senttoßev. A. Holmes, President.

A dispatch to the National Board of Health In Washington on the 12th reported five new cases of yellow fever at Morgan City, La., and two mild cases in the infected district of New Orleans. ‘ ' There were twenty-one new cases (eleven colored) and eleven deaths reported in Memphis on the 12th. A second donation of 35,000 was received by the Howards from Jay Gould, of New York, making the total receipts of the Association for the day 28,100.35. A scspiciorß type of fever was reported as prevailing at Concordia, Miss., on the 13th. Up to that date six cases and two deaths had occurred. Twenty-three new cases (thirteen colored) and four deaths were reported in Memphis on the 13th, and one case and four deaths on the 14th. The weekly report ejjpwed 132 new cases (seventy-two colored), the total to date being 1,136; number of yellow-fever deaths during the week, forty-eight

Foreign Intelligence. The carpenters and Joiners of Paris struck on the Bth for higher wages and fewer hours. Captain Goldsmith and wife, Captain and crew of ibe row-boat Uncle Bam, which left the United States for Europe early in August, reached Liverpool on the Bth. Their boat swamped oil Newfoundland, and they were picked up by a passing vessel. According to a Glasgow (Scotland) dispatch of the 9th there were 80,000 workmen unemployed in that city. Only the ironworkers were doing well. The statement b made that the crops in Ireland have been virtually lost this year, in consequence of the recent heavy rains. The Egyptian Government has acceded to the demand of the United States for representation on the Commission for the liquidation of the Egyptian debt. The Austrian army occupied some of the principal points in Novl-Bazar on the Bth and Bth. The Turkish troops retired as they approached, and the inhabitants gave them a friendly rcce- tiou.

The town of Vlazama, in Rossis, has been nearly destroyed by fire. On the 9th 200 houses bad already been destroyed and the fire was still raging. Bt. Petersburg papers of the 10th recommend the partition of Afghanistan between Russia and Great Britain. The foot and mouth disease has made ita appearance among the cattle in the cantons of Berne and Jura, In Switzerland, and pleuropneumonia in Alsace-Lorraine. According to London telegrams of the 12th King Mtesa, ruling near Lake Victoria Nyanxa, in Africa, had abolished slavery throughout his domain. Dispatches from various Indian points, received on the 12th, say that Herat, Badaskan and the Balkh provinces, In Afghanistan, were in full revolt against the Ameer. A holy war against England was being preached throughout the country. An explosion occurred on the 12th in the Crewe Colliery at Leycett, England. Five persons are known to have been killed. All bat one of the Directors of the West of England and South Wales District Bank have been committed for trial for publishing false balance sheets. A meeting will shortly be held In Russia to consider the propriety of abandoning the Russian method of reckoning time. The English Embassy at Mandalay has fled. Fears were entertained on the 12th that the King would follow the example set

KmaSX*^***""*?*!**^ rtnUri itajfr and aiitaisl Ih siwiH of bII tfoc mios of Fiiftf.m the nfl (Denmark) University bsiaul am the 13th. ’ ffi Ob the lffih a dispatch waa received Bum AH Kheyl, gMeg a lew additional details of the massacre of the British Legation at CatmL Four thousand ms attacked the occupied by the British, bringing artfltary to bear upon them. Major Cavagwari was stabbed in several places, ml aH the bodies of the dead were mutilated. The British made s vigorous defense aad kffled over 300 Afghans. The dispatch says that the Ameer, being intimidated by the priests, did not interfere, except to beg for the lives of the Embassy.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. , \ © —Tobacco chewers notice that the teeth at women decay sooner than those of men. —lt is a wise railroad stock that knows its own pur, nowadays.— Whitehall Time*. —lt' is always the smoke frflbi the other man's cigar that is offensive to the young lady. y —The difference between a hen aad a mousetrap is that the mousetrap can't set itself.— StilUcater Lumberman. —The coiner of pennies takes a common cents view of things, although he does mints matters.— N. Y. News. —Some men are born leaders, though circumstances conspire so that they never get above leading mules.—Picayune. —A man is always wanting some one to tell him how handsome he looks. A woman will just stand before a glass and see for herself. —Student (fresh from college, to conductor) —*"I wish to get on the penultimate car.” Conductor—“ We have no peanut car; you can take the smoker.” [Mutually disgusted.] —An old Philadelphia plasterer writes to the Memphis Avalanche that he knows one tablespoonful of limewater, drank three times a day, to be a sure preventive of yellow fever. —Johnny says his mother makes a great cry if his sister goes out without ner shade-hat. She oon’t want her to get freckled; but she doesn't seem to care a bit how much his father tans him. —There is a great deal of outcry at Leadville against the capitalizing of mines put upon the New York markets at $10,000,000 and $20,000,000, when they did not cost the promoters of such companies $500,000.

1 —Budd Doble says a man cannot get away from a race track too soon if he wants to save his reputation as an honest man. Budd has been jockeying all his life, and he ought to know just how much the word of a horseman is worth. —Miss Analine de Flukey, at Saratoga—“ Chawles, why don’t you take a glass of Congress r’ Chawles—“l don’t like mineral water.” Miss de Flukey —“ And if your breath is any criterion, you don’t liko the other kina, either.” . I —Two Meriden men are in trouble over the ownership of a ladder, and are taking steps for a lawsuit. Tbe result of this will be that one lawyer will get the sides and the other lawyer will get the roungp, leaving the holes to the litigntitsAr -Danbury News. —AihH|dw sixteen or seventeen now stars have been discovered. If thi^thhag isn’t stopped pretty soon, the young couple who succeed in finding that particular star by half-past ten won’t be able to get home before midnight. Give the children a rest. — Boston PosL —A green rose has bloomed in Durham, N. C. The bud presents the natural appearance of the ordinary rose; but in its development and expansion the petals seem to have been displaced by an abnormal duplication or multiplication of the c ilyx, the sections of which are crowded together, making a full, green flower. —Paul Boy ton and Captain Webb are to havo a swimming match, and James Gordon Bennett has promised to give the winner one thousand dollars. Two poor sewing-girls in New York, the other day, had a shirt-making match at twelve cents per shirt. The winner completed four shirts in sixteen hours, but we believe no one gavo her ono thousand dollars. Norristown Herald.

—His biggest tooth had just been pulled; and, when he went out, he calmly handed it to the ivory-lifter. “Two dollars, if you please,” said the forcepist. “ Eight dollars change, you mean,” sweetly responded the victim. “You filled that masticator with ton dollars’ worth of raw coinage two months ago, and, if you haven’t cheated me, it’s there yet. ’ —“A pretty style of hair-drossing for the morning,’ says a fashionable journal, “is to wave all the hair.” Wo agree with the above. In the morning it is not only a pretty but a useful fashion for women to snatch all their hair off the back of the chair, where it has reposed during the night, .and wave it around the room to chase out the flies. —Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. —Diphtheria is a frightful scourge of the rising generation. The children of kings ana lords are carried away by it as well as those of the poorest people. In several countries of Europe prizes are offered for the discovery of the best remedy for the disease. Among the prizes is one offered by the Empress of Germany for the best treatise on tho subject published within a year. —A well-known carpet drummer gives the following itemized account of his spring operations: Miles, 3,964; trunks, 4; shown goods, 116; sold, 98; been asked the news, 5,061; told, 2,210; lied ahont it, 2,160; didn't know, 691; been asked to drink, 1,861; drank, 1,861; changed politics, 46; daily expenses allowed by house, §8; actual average, $7; clean profit, $1; cash on hand, $2.60; been to church, 1. —Hobart Pasha writes that in his opinion the best ships for fighting purposes are small, heavily-armed vessels, built for speed, that can, as it were, “ hop round their enemy like a cooper round a cask,” hitting .him on every vulnerable point, shelling his decks at long range and worrying him to death. He ays, of coarse, the small vessel* would be liable to hard knocks now and then, but you cannot go to war in kid gloves. A oouplb of American capitalists have founded a “city” on the Little Saskatchewan River, and intend to make it the “future great” of the new Northwest.

A STALWART DELIVERANCE.

the Bair at the Saratoga Cosvsstk*^ Cnswsttos hmsty vests ago, whew the stave *r a si. ha 1 tag the niunmia Iha taws, the BttsMvkOnsrtMi writteCUßji^nih Basse of the rathKes ctm war wasca, attain two yesw thereafter, opened its dread drana ta Charleston Harbor ta the three of rievea bast is Ire ~f irtm«ty, which buried their iron U nit troops, whoas the toraMMßt, ta its earnest desire to avoid hostile haw str—loaa. was endeavoring to feed, and no* to rrtadnssa. it was at Sumter that the exaerisseat at atarviaa the Government was hdhtad, with repetitions at Anderson title aad other places of historic brutality, and more recently at Washington at the late extra session cf Congress, I came to this petition again in 1812. The curtain had then fallen upon the Moody drama opened at Charleston. The long, weary battling rears that had intervened had drifted into the dead past. The Bag had been bfted up front Its humifiatioa at Punster, and again inviolate and supreme, proclaimed the National sovereignty from the Potomac to the Rto Grande. A half million of the defenders ot that sovereignty were sleeping ta soldier's graves. The Mood of hundreds of bat-tie-Aeids, the emblems of mourning, the tears in a million of sacrificial homes, the bereft, the desolate, the helpless, the scarred and the wasted, encountered oa every hand, attested the costliness of the sacrifices which hml been made for the National life. We then confidently believed that by an immutable law of the Supreme Ruler, such sacrifices had not been made in vain ;that the Nation’s Mood, the Nation’s tears, and the Nation’s treasures had found compensation in the destruction of the germ of the fatal heresy of secession and in saving the grand framework of our Government from falling into wretched fragments. With immense majorities In Congress and every Northern State, and omnipotent to fix the status of its defeated enemies, the Government, with a magnanimity for which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, treating the contest as one of principle, snd not of personal hatred, and lifting itself above the low level of a mere sectional triumph, had condoned the crime of treason and rebellion, and actually reinvested traitors and rebels with the rights they had forfeited, and made them equal participants in the privileges they had insolently cast off in their mad purpose to destroy the National authority. This magnanimity has been supplemented by every possible effort to establish In the Southern section of this country a substantial era of reconciliation an»* peace. Military garrisons have been withdrawn, all alleged National interference heretofore complained of discontinued, and, contrary to all political precedent, appointments to office have been given to those who, a few years since, were moving heaven and earth to prostrate the Government and Union. To-day we are here confronting the consequences of the magnanimity of the Government and of its wasted and despised efforts to conciliate its late armed assailants. In the light of recent events it is not hyperbole to Inquire, Was the surrender of Appomattox a wretched, hollow truce, patched up to enable the rebellion to choose a new line of assault upon the Union? and was the mushroom Confederacy proclaimed at Montgomery really a failure, or are the founders and ideas to become the living, controlling forces of the country? The spirit which defied the authority and sought to destroy the unity of the Republic has again taken living form tn a Solid South, supported by the whole power of the party North, which in 1881 declared that the Constitution had left the Government powerless in the face of an armed enemy, which, with valorous spirit but fainting fiesh, pUvlged itself to resist coercion unto blood; and which, when our victorious legions had prepared the winding-sheet of the rebellion, in its National Convention assembled resolved the war a failure.

Stripped of all guise, the two great parties of the country are again ranged on either side of the line of demarkation of the powers of the National Government anti the States. Wherein now differs the Issue from that made up in 1861? Then the Democratic party demanded of President Lincoln that he should perjure himself in his official oath, or they would overthrow the Government by armed force. Lincoln answered in his inaugural: “ You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I-have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” This demand was referred to the last dread court of arbitrament, where fur four years, in the white heat of fearful war, the great argument proceeded, until at last, at Appomattox, the verdict was delivered to the matchless soldier whose marshaling of the Union forces had brought rebel traitors to submission and avenged an outraged Nation. That verdict was that tho Constitution of the United States was not a compact entered into by the States, but was ordained and established by the people of th© United States for themselves and their posterity; that no Stato or combination of States can nullify the Constitution; that the Union is a family of States, independent of each other for local concerns, but united under one Government for the manairement of common interests and tho preservation of tho general peace, a plan—to borrow the language of another—" most hopeful for combining tho home-bred blessings of a small State with the stability and power of a great Empire.” In short, that verdict was that the Nationality proclaimed by our fathers shall stand until justioe, domestic tranquility, the common defense, the general welfare and tho blessings of liberty shall, in God’s own good time, under the Stars and Stripes, be the lasting heritage of all who may bo dwolling upon the face of this entire continent. And the Republican party of tho Empire State, remembering that the great charter of our Nationality was enacted upon her soli, and recalling the heroic deeds, the sacrifices and tho fldclltyof the almost hair million of her sons who participated in that bloody assize,pledgee Itself here anew to stand by the verdict. In this year of grace, tho same Democratic party which sought to coerce President Lincoln from his official duty has demanded of President Hayes that he should perjure himself in his official oath; that he should surrender a prerogative given him by tho Constitution, so that Congress alone might beoomo the law-making power, and that the party might, by Congressional enactment, strip the Government of tho power to pretoot its citizens, to enforce its laws for the preservation of tho poaoc, and for the security of tho ballot-box, to tho end that tho palladium of our liberties might be left a prey to fraud and violence in the South and swindling repeaters In the North. This revolutionary demand was accompanied by the menace that, tho President refusing, tho whole machinery of the Government should bo brought to a standstill by withholding the suppllos which constitute its very lifo currents. This new assault upon tho Constitution, differing in form only from that made by tho same party in 1861, was met with a firmness, dignity and patriotism which make Rutherford B. Hayes illustrious in his high office, and a worthy successor of him who, for twelve years, in field and cabinet, stood against every such assault as a wall **f adamant. From the decision of President Hayes, as from that of Lincoln, the Democratic party takes its appeal; not this time to wager of battle, for tbe Insurrectionary States, the great factor of tho party, havg not yet forgotten the tramp of the armed legions of the Union who bore upon their banners Into the heart of its strongholds the death warrant of slavery, nor tfie old Inspiring notes of “Glory Hallelujah!” rung out’by those. legions, as they swept by the gallows of John Brown, carrying tho day-star of the morning of liberty to those who sat in the night of bondage. Tho appeal is now taken to the txtilot-box, which Itself is made tho brunt of tho assault of tho Denmeratie party, lav cause through Its abuse alone lies its only hope of success. I make no apology for putting tbe perilous National isque now Joined above all Stato Issues. Tho Republican party bclloves, first of all things, in tho -altsolutu supremacy of the Constitution and the laws of the Nation. Wo .are thus early, by the action of tho Democratic party at the last session of Cougreks, forced'upon tho first lino of tho Presidential canvass of next year. Tho rebyko of that revolutionary action by a majority of tbe people on November next will be the assurance of the complete overthrew of this now attempt to .subvert, the Constitution. The Democratic party lacks now only tho Executive Department to control tho Government. The Congress has already passed to tho absolute rule of the over-mastering Southern section of the party, which, by a more than twothirds majority, chosen always for its conspicuous fidelity to the rebellion, dictates tho action of tbe Northern followers. It is of this Democratic party 1 am speaking to-day, which, despite ail debate upon the question of Northern or Southern responslbilitf for tho initiation of any given measure of Governmental policy, can alone control and does Ax the final Impress and give it effect. This ascendency in the House of Representatives hus been gained by clutching tbe increase of'representation given by the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution, meanwhile exhausting the catalogue of crimes to defraud the class who form the lasts of that Increase of the benefit which should accrue to them, and by thus arrogating to themselves double the legislative power to which they are entitled, curtailing tho Just influence of other States in the making of laws and tho administration of the Government. In tho insoleneo of power thus gained tho Democratic party becomes defiant in Ita denial of the right of the Government to defend itself by regulating the National elections or by enforcing its statutes for the protection of its citizens, either by the military or even the ftivtl authority. It denies the Government any participation in the control of proceedings which affect the “common defense'' and the “general welfare.” Anarchy may reign tu-

r- .:!? ” w \ . the fiager cat the dtaiaaato reverse the tag* istaticai sff the Nation for the hast eighteen thta stakeetreTthe dstaSSra^"* *T* < the knowledge of every ana off ordinary into*hgcnco la the (and, thnr are a minority of the legal voters off the Pafiwd Bsafies, ssaktag up taforce ia numbers, sujv tag always across tae pathway off the progress off the masses, despistag the rule of the majority; edaeated to despotism aad violences and impriied hjr one cootroWnw purpose born off their barbaric institution—to rule their section ta their own way. They tie a party led and dominated by those whose violated Constitutional oaths and forsworn atleghusee to the Government are the only testimonials of their fidelity to the Union, and whose contempt for the Government aad law-defying spirit are shown by their neglect, in their entire domains, to bring to justice even one of the numerous foul assassins of United States officers, guilty only off attempting to diecharge their duty In executing the taws of the United States—a party whose leaders launched the spurious Confederacy, with negro slavery as Its corner-stone, and which was buried in the abyssmal depths of that outgrowth of treason. but which, resurrected tar the beneficence of the Government, rewarded its tksswuy by restating at every Step the work of reconstruction, the amendments to the Constitution, and the legislation necessary to give them effect. Who are these who demand to be made the sole custodians of the National foith? A party which, on its dismissal from power In 1881, left the credit of the Government dishonored: which, during the war, flooded the South with its Confederate promises, until they became as plenty as the drifting leaves of autumn.and as worthless as the wasted parchment signed at Montgomery; which, since the war, has been engaged in the South in the open wort scaling down and repudiating Its State and municipal obligations by the wholesale; which has waged unceasing war upon the obligations of the Nation; which, tn National Convention and Congress, has restated to the last the great measure of resumption—the crowning achievement off the Republican party, and the first instance in the world's history in which a Nation has redeemed its forced loans on demand, without discount and tn the money of the . worhl, and under the influence of which every prostrate Industry in the land is throbbing with new Hfe, and the whole country entering upon a career of unprecedented prosperity. This Solid South, to whom our obligations are the irritating token of their subjugation to the National authority, now demands that It shall be invested with the sole power of regulating, collecting and disbursing the revenues of the country, upon which its faith rests, through which we saved the Government. and which, perverted or abused, would cripple and destroy Its ability to maintain- resumption or even its own existence. Who are these who, to inflame the partisan ignorant, conjure up the use of the army as an instrument to overawe State authority, and shout themselves hoarse- over the phantom? It Is the party of Jefferson Davis, under whose order, as Secretary of War. in 1848, United States dragoons rode down and dispersed the free State Legislature of Kansas. Who are those who prate of the freedom of elections and the sanctity of the ballot? It is the party which, by the denial of free discussion, by lawlessness, violence and assassination, ballot-box stuffing and the invasion of meetings and polling-places by bands of armed ruffians, has mocked the sanctity of th*' ballot, and has made, in th*' South, the republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution, a by-word ami a farce.

To these demands the Republicans of New York make this answer: We love honorable peace and hate contention; but we put the supremacy of the Constitution and the law, justice and our own equality in the Government, before cowardly peace and craven submission. We acknowledge tbe sovereignty of the people within the rule of the Constitution. The war of the rebellion was fought in vain if it failed to establish the doctrine that the will of tho majority, fairly expressed, shall lie the supreme law of the land. The majority have successfully asserted their fidelity to the Union upon countless battle-fields, and at every fair trial by an honest ballot, and despite the machinations an«T revolutionary agressions of the Democratic party will again maintain their right to gqvern, ifnder the Constitution, their own Union, rescued by war from the toils of treason, in their own way. As Winter Davis said at the close of the war, “We who have laid down our half million of men under the soil, have a right to say who shall triumph above it.” Tbe question is no longer the equality of the freedmen in the Government, nut that of our own bqualtty. We will no iouger be deluded by fluent premises and punic professions. We, too, make our demands, ana will exhaust all Constitutional and legal methods to enforce them. We will have the equality in tho Government to which we are entitled under tho Constitution, and wHI not submit to the excessive power usurped by the South in the subversion of law and citizenship. We assert the right of tho Government to control National elections, so that every man entitled to suffrage may east, in peace and security, ouo free vote ami no more. We demand ono law—Justly enacted—equally binding upon every citizen of the land, to be respected and obeyed alike by all, and, when all other means fail, to be onforood by the strong arm which subdued the rebellion. We make no secret of our partiality for the regulated bayonet in the hands of mon wearing the blue of the Government as against the shot-gun in the hands of the red-shirted mobooraey of tho South. We demand that this laud —

She that lifts up the manhood of tho poor. She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind—shall be made tho land of supreme, Constitutional liberty, as unchangeable as the stars symbolized upon her launicr. We demand that tho faith of this Nation to its creditors shall bo maintained upon the basis upon which wo placed It iu the hour of its peril, and havo steadily upheld it through weary years of privations, reverses, sacrifices and vanishing values, until now every dollar of the public debt commands its face in gold. Insisting always upon the equality of the National obligation with gold, we will keeptho Nation’s honor unsullied and never pormit it to bo tainted by the touch of tho repudlator, whether ho comes in open assault or in artful guise, with silvery tongue. Wo demand a Government which shall protect tho weak, tho ignorant and tho helpless whom wo havo liberated, and that American citizenship shall bo raised to the dignity at least of that of the Roman Empire. when Paul had been bound with thongs, he said to tho centurion that stood by: “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and unoondemned?” When tho centurion hoard that ho wont and told the chief captain, saying: “Take heed what thou doest, for this man is a Roman.” The Kopubliean party will bo wanting in “ decent respect to tho opinion of mankind,” will bo false to itself, false to its plighted faith and false to humanity, until this scourging of American citizens, uncondomucd and iinaoouscd, save of exercising a right given .by tho Constitution, shall cease, and until the admonition: Tako heed what thou doest for this man Is an American, shall be as potent when applied to tho lowliest froedman of the bind as was that of the Roman centurion. From the day Luther burned the Pope’s bull at Wurtemborg. tho progress of tho human race toward a higher civilization has swept on, not always with uniform force, but with muny a temporary recession. But the tide, gathering new powor in its subsidence, defying every ohataeio In its pathway, has in its return overleaped all barriers. In this temporary ebbing In the tide of our civil liberty and universal freedom, the Republican party finds new opportunity and new duty. Wo of Now York earnestly and with determination dial Unite ourselves to tho work of warding off the new perils which threaten us. Tbe spirit which inspired the organization of the party and its deeds, immortal fgr freedom and Nationality, is again n living Uamo in all hor liberty-loving homes, kindling anew tho determination to make secure the foundations laid with such costly sacrifices, and to garner up their full fruition. Let us hero to-day, as her delegated repri'sonttives, enter upon onr work with a just conception of Ita magnitude. Our sueuass at the coming election is not only vital to the welfare of the Nation, but will insure us well the control of the administration of the affairs of tho State, to which wo are Justly entitled by reason of having shapini its financial policy so as to havo redlicedlts taxation and indebtedness and of having laid the foundation in our Constitution upon which our public works mid reformatory institutions can bo maiuigcd with tho greatest effletonuy and economy. Theso real reforms ought, by every consideration, to be intrusted to those who originated them and are uiost thoreugly imbued with their spirit. Lot us not be lulled by the idea of division In tbe ranks of the Deinovrutle party. We shall confront an opposition which will challenge our every legitimate effort. Sinking ao cry . eunsUlorat lon of ambition and personal partiality, let us be rivals only In every needful saorittoo, to the cud that by our notion to-day wo may lift up the tiannor, by whose sign—“ The Union, the Constitution and the Rnforoemeut of tho Laws"—wo shall not only oonquor now, but lay the sure foundation for National auooess in tho greater contest Just before us. And so, romenuioring our obligations to the loyal dead and to tho generation* who are to follow, let u« gird ourselves for the now conflict, invoking the guidance of Him who bath hitherto boon our deliverer. Beyond those lowering clouds, in another’s language, “wo see piled quietly up against a golden sky mmintalns or compensation, bright with tho hues of a glorious peace, and holding within their inirnje bosom* treasures for the endowment of all the coming generations of men." Sound logic —Arguing through the telephone.

The New York Republican Platform.

TtS? wort. The elation** is a mode). It is not long, find is as strong as the Bs* gfeh language can make IL It Is £ platform that la the future will be looked hack upon wit h pride bv even Republican in the State. ‘ There Is bo doubtful or feeble utterance in it. From the first word to the last it exjuresscs strong conviction, earnest aad determined purposes, and confidence which only comes with a convietie*» off right. It puts the Republican interpretation of the Constitution as to the rights of the National Government and the rights of the States strongly find tersely. There esn be bo misunderstanding- -uo doubt. It expresses the doctrine clearly and concisely: “ The Republic ot the Unite*! States is a Nation and not a league.” The arraignment off the Democracy for its revolutionary action during tj§p' last session off Congress, and its attempt to starve out the Government and coerce the President, is a damaging indictment. On the issue of troops at the polls it is explicit and straight-forward, and it tears off the mask of the Democracy and shows its hypocrisy in attempting to drive Federal officers from the polls, while countenancing the presence off armed ruffians and rifle-embs. It indulges a just pride in resumption, and takes strong grounds for honest money. It demonstrates the wise economy off the Republican party in the State Government, and exposes the false pretenses off the Democratic officials who Would steal the credit for Republican measures. It is in all re- , spects an excellent paper ami worthy of the emulation of other States, The nomination of Mr. A. B. Cornell on the first ballot shows that Senator Conkling has not suffered to any great extent from the mud-slinging of the Democratic press. There was some demonstration against him when he cast his vote for Cornell, as then' was against ex-Collector Arthur. But this may be laid to the stubborn fight the Senator has made for his friends more than to the Rhode Island affair. Whatever criticisms Senator Conkling’s enemies msv make they cannot but admire Ins loyalty to his . friends and his boldness and strength. No man has had stronger opposition to light, nor has suffered more detraction and abuse. He has dauotlessly and fearlessly pursued his object heedless of stings and slurs, and is able to laugh his enemies to scorn. The contest for* the nomination for Governor has not been so bitter but all may now good-naturedly stand shoulder to shoulder against the Democracy. Compared with the confilet in the l)emocratio party, there is elpse harmony. The Republican party in New York starts out under favorable auspices, and with the most flattering prospects of success. There is every reason to believe that the sterling worth of the platform and the grave National issues depending upon the result will give the Republican party a large majority. The outlook for ‘the party in every State is • promising, and if the hopes and strong probabilities of success In Ohio and New York are realized, the Republican candidate .. for President in 1880 will have a clear path for the White House. —ilndianajHtlin Journal. J !

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Poetry, says Matthew Arnold? is simply tho most delightful and perfect form of utterance that human words can reach. —James C Flood, tire San Francisco millionaire, will soon build a new dwelling for himself which is to oost $200,000. —The tallest man in Alabama is said to be John W. Robinson, of Pike County, who is six feet seven and a half inches high. , —Currie, the Texan who killed Porter, the aotor, refuses to plead insanity. He says that he has “ a splendid Texas ease” as it is, and there is no use weakening it. —lt is reported thsit United States Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, has bought teu thousand acres of land in Kansas and will make* his home there as soon as his present term in the Senate expires. —There will be a lively contest as to who shall be Bishop Odunheimer’s successor. Already the names of many candidates are mentioned. Prominont among them is that of the Rev. Dr. Starkey, of St. Paul’s Church, Jersey City. —The Washington Star says that the acting Secretary of the Treasury lately reoeivod postage stamps to the amount of ten oents from an unknown person, with a statement to tho effect that the sender, many years ago, while at sohool, had succeeded in erasing the cancellation mark from one pr two stamps which had been used, and had used them again. Now that he knows such action was wrong, he desires to pay the Government the amount “ justly due,” and, to make it “ dead sure,” inclosed stamps to the amount of ten cents, which were oovered into the conscience fund. —A correspondent in Boston who has just visited the grave of Charlotte Cushman writes: “It is delightfully situated iu tbe baok part of Mount Auburn Cemetery, at the base of a bill, with a grand view of Boston and tho Charles River in the far distance. The keeper told me that, when Miss Cushman selected the lot she said, nodding her approval of it: ‘Here 1 shall Hein sight of dear old Boston.’ The lot is a very large one, and In excellent order; bnt not a flower, tree or shrub ornaments It. A little plain marble tablet, threo inches thick and about four feet high, resting on a fiat freestone socket, hearing simply her name, and valued at about S9O, is all there U to mark the restlng-plaoe ol the tragic queen who left hall a million to her next of kin.” —The report that Mrs, Oobb, the Norwloh (Conn.) murderer, is leading a life of luxurious retirement in the Connecticut State Prison has led to an investigation by a reporter, who found her in a double ©ell, which is carpeted with a heavy Brussels carpet. The gloom of the oall la dostroyod by heavy lace curtains of fine texture, which ore festooned graoefully over the arched entrance. The walls are handeomelv decorated with mottoes, a well-filled bookcase, stylish wail-pockets and elegant braoketa and the thousand and one tasteful and inexpensive trifles so infinitely dear to the heart of lovely woman. An attractive camp chair* {(listening with fresh varnish and gtow* ng with warm colors, stood wear a dainty black walnut stand, ***** wfcfeh was a dish of fruit oompe*«deft ywotHtett and bananas, adorned leaves. Wesley Bishop, h** flOjWtomq in crime, is ouo of the •*** GufttittiUPilfii convicts in tbe priaoa, **d sfcpwasfttefe aptitude for the W«sfc *fe whtofclfeift put.