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irt1 -l,EPIBlT CKEDIF.
. (Vri.’bt, in h>s speech last
? . afe E sonic iuteresting figures
4 ;',' he public debt and the pre-
* 'p- j bond;. The subject is a
3 ,. r f ur thought, and we add to
‘ •. s t3 temint a few more, which
waders will bear in mind
tepuhlican orators are extolling to
a* the splendid policy of Mr. Mor-
j State; credit now stands at 4i
•f"' il Secretary Morrill is en-
frefundiog 8300,000,000 of the
ntv 6 P er cent, bends at the lower
nhe shall cud—and we earn-
L, , v ill—the saving of interest
'Lurt refunded will be $4,500,-
The Republicans are claim-
kexaltation of the public credit as
*r,-us achievement, and are never
5challenging the country’s ad-
1B j gratitude for it. Let us
matter a little.
lemming of Grant’s admiuis-
iVUed State; 0 per cent. Itonds
cults in gold—that is, $830
|,„ M |; now they are worth,
Here is a gain of $170 in
h „i' these bonds—a gain,
n-liich goes to the hond-
. lV’ tie admit that, under Re-
Taaaitcnu'iit, there has been
: i of our bonds, this exal-
'• if-rational credit; let us ad-
Iiepublicans have done it all,
• alone are entitled to the
''•'having brought about a state of
: I. make in possible to sell U.
i.b a: par, ami substitute them
jj,.,,;. bond;. Then comes in the
][ ,«■ lias this been brought
,.,j I..UV nun'll has it cost ?
-ilaer cent, bonds now being
j with 4 i per cent, bonds, are
they are payable now;
.riv.iblc ten years ago, when
ojt a,imit:i.'tration came into
Tl.t-v were payable, by their
lawful money, that is, green-
T;.re is mi doubt about this.
•-;. rm.ui. chairman of the sen-
mittce on finance, said so; Mr.
. ; i’tiiin.-ylvaniu, chairman of
committee on ways and
■ 1 so; and the act under which
,Inure issued virtually said so
rciiondlmhlers, a large number
were members of congress,
: ami claimed that they were
,in I'oin. As there were$l,600,
■oi these lionds out, and the
between greenbacks and coin
inn- was 1" cents on the 100, it
vtrv important matter: the
involve! 1 was 10 per cent, on
■ mi, say $010,000,000.
"-rs'iiah, the first Republican
funder the Grant administra-
t the honii-holders’ view. It
r. ad to strengthen the public
a; it was called, in which it
lit this enormous amount of
. f. 1 le paid, not in greenbacks
sis. This act did strengthen
I redit, certainly, but at a
• people of about $040,000,-
: was the first step in the Re-
au.terpnse of improving the
-I'niu-il States bonds in the
■: the public creditors. The
sascarcely less brilliant exam-
Mncieriiv.'—the steady month-
aase by the govrnment of these
those "price had been increased
ad. It was as if a wealthy
b.vi. first, voluntarilly bind
f'redeem his greenback debts
: ai.d then go into the market
7aphis own notes.
1 ;rl step in the Republican
: ftrenclhening the public
the passage of the silver
■f.‘i’.oi.s bill in 1873. which
if:;-p'uple the right of pay-
T.al ifeht in gold and sil-
•.''•’.rict' (l them to gold alone
- Hum of payment. -As gold
p I'n.t. dearer than silver
d: another addition to the val-
' : r.ds attiie expense of the
Te ;.iy that gold dollars are -
;•'•■ 1" to 12 per cent, more than
;-ars. AViiat will be the rela-
of the true metals during the
years we cannot predict;
' ; lperiur value of gold dol-
or.ly 5 per cent, the de-
act will add 5 per cent,
debt, or about $100,000,-
'• - i; ao a that the cost to the
/• the improvement of the
' i; t- which the Republicans
of. lias been $740,000,000.
any cause for thanks in this,
"H.unstul by all means; if the
gratitude to those wbo
■;} increased their burdens, they
; ■ -f uratitude, 8740,000,000
■n G ill- Republican party’.
a 'fdoimjih add Messenger
i'' 1 -'- "i delinquent tax-payers.
'-.“t u’t delinquents. Ah I breth-
enough to make an angel
" ;. v are the men who won’t pay
die iToteetion of Govern-
for die education of their
’ “ I? li.-t of skulkers from
of tlie obligations of citi-
"' 10 practically demand
' ,'tllew-citizeiis shall support
o-nt lur tli,.in. and, reasoning
I fT wnl >ld if they could.de-
: public should feed and
•t'-m.
. tc doubt rrany of these one
.-tn-taxpayers are high on their
They must be partic-
Nl ™, 11 ' oil nominations for
:* are loud in primary meetings.
hem ' perhaps, have four or
4 ,f n of 'he public schools, and
t 5n e ver y Lest kind of ac’
iw^°‘ idem will vote this time.
■ Pay up. That is some com-
tr . which was written by a lady
• B ' c ° ,J,l 'ias the following state-
i'n’t, ago, over a planta-
K' tena-i° me forl >’ h “ nds on itj
ir«. f k ’ running one, two and
, ar ™ s - They began a few
,, 11 neither provisions nor stock.
„ ’ ';! lUrel y free from debt, will
_.r,f Ilr 'y bales of cotton and
I 'fill J*! 1 ’^'des other provisions.
1 '■ ttr. • , * n smaller proportions ;
■ 'Wepc-ndent or becoming so,
Hb.new that these are hard
B L->rl: )>,
Post.
ft J te ff question at issue is
kt;,^'- - v or dishonesty shall
Uorial affairs.—Pittsburg Post.
VOLUME XXXI.
Our New York Letter.
New Yoke, October 2, 1870.
THE PROSPECTS TO-DAY.
October opens brightly for the Dem
ocracy. From all quarters come re
ports of Democratic gains in the can
vass, and the Radicals have no hopes
of Indiana. Their desperate efforts to
carry' the State by money are evident
failures, and even the weak argument
of betting is almost abandoned by
them.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The news from West, Virginia is
equally encouraging, and the Demo-
crotic committee have full confidence
of carrying the State by a satisfactory
majority.
onto.
Full confidence is also felt in Ohio,
based upon the confidence placed by
the National Committee on the splen
did organization of the Democrats in
the State, under the lead of John G.
Thompson, Chairman of the State Com
mittee.
THE GERMANS IN TIIE WEST.
The Germans in the west are almost
unanimously for the Democracy this
year, and I venture the assertion that
Dames, who heads the Republican
ticket in Ohio, will not poll enough of
German votes to elect a town con
stable.
A new York paper of to-day says:
“The very worthy statesman and gen
tleman, the Hon. Milton Saylor, will
have a close race in the First Ohio Dis
trict, being opposed by a very popular
Republican candidate. Mr. Saylor is
one of the few Congressmen who rise
superior to mere party policy and nar
row trammels, and in whose hands, un
der all circumstances, the county would
be safe. There need be no apprehen
sion of the defeat of Mr. Saylor. The
news from his district makes his elec
tion sure beyond the possibility of a
doubt."
GARTIEI-D GIVES UP INDIANA.
Letters received by the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee
from Gen. Garfield, of Ohio, since his
return from Indiana, express the evi
dent defeat of his party in that State,
and the urgent necessity for concentrat
ing all possible efforts on Ohio by send
ing campaign documents in abundance,
and all the material aid that can be got
from the officers and employees of the
Government Departments here; also
corroborating Carl Schurz’s expressed
opinion that the Germans are nearly
solid with the Democracy.
THEY AM. GIVE IT UP.
Garfield, Babcock, Kilpatrick and
Hayes are all in accord in abandoning
hope of Harrison’s election, and their
followers here are evidently ol the same
mind.
THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT.
The real soldiers are coming to the
front to fight against the sham soldiers,
the boys in blue, of whom very few
wore blue, but who will be
very blue on the morning of October
11th.
the response of new VOIIK soldiers.
It will be impossible for some of the
most distinguished soldiers of this
State to be at Indianapolis on Thurs
day next, but they are sending greet
ing to fellow soldiers there in an clo-
[iieiit address prepared by Gen. James
McQuade, and signed by such heroes
of the war as Generals Franklin, Slo
cum, McQuade, McMahon, W. S.
Smith, Eagan, W. W. Averell, J. P.
Mclvor, J. M. Cavanagh, Ihue, Gibson ;
Lt. Com. Costar ; Cels.Gall and Tracy;
Majors Cassidy and Joseph Rupel;
Captains IV. S. Russell, C. J. Thorioth,
D. A. White, Byrne and many hun
dred others of the most distinguished
and meritorious officers of New York.
THE FEELING OF THE KEGULAU ARMY
AND NAVY.
The officers of the army and navy
are debarred from political discussion
by the articles of war, bu t it is a well-
known fact that a large majority of
them are in favor of the election of
Tilden and Hendricks, although, like
United States Judges, most of them
were commissioned by Republican
Presidents.
hooker’s stirring call.
It is evident that Gen. Hooker’s stir
ring call will be answered by thous
ands of war veterans in the reunions
at Indianapolis and Albany. Gen.
Hooker eloquently says :
Veterans of the Union Cause:
“Will you enlist in this campaign?
Will you help us in this work of re
form ? It is a work inaugurated with
the approval and by the co-operation
of the National Democratic Committee
of all the States, and with the help
and concurrence of many eminent cit
izens, And in appealing to you to
join us in all honorable endeavors for
the election of Tilden and Hendricks
we can assure you. that as there were
great numbers of gallant Democratic
generals, commanders, subalterns and
privates who fought with you in the
‘big wars,’ there will not now be want
ing the same patriotic class o tfiglit for
this cause.”
ADAMS ON BLAINE.
Mr. Charles Francis Adams speaks
very plainly about Brother Blaine.
“When,” he says, “in a great popular
convention of a party to nominate a
candidate-for the Presidency, one gen
tleman, deeply compromised by the
investigations of a committee of the
House of Representatives, comes with
in twenty-fi’ T e votes ‘of a nomination
it seems to me that it is high time lor
a change in public opinion,
course the young editor, who has been
a servile toady to Blaine ever since the
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNEi
latter captured him with a dinner,
abuses Charles Francis Adams roundly
for expresing this opinion of Jay Gould’s
friend and his own. The Tribune has
no real place in this campaign, except
as the defender of Blaine’s jobbery
and the eulogist [of Bob Ingersoll’s
blasphemy.”
The above, from the Sun of Sunday,
is a just notice of the greatest plitical
humbug find the greatest newspaper
humbug of the day. That Blaine, af
ter the shocking revelation cf last win
ter, should seem to retain bi3 position
as a political leader, is almost enough
to make one doubt the success of pop
ular government.
WHAT WILL SAVE THE PEOPLE?
However, tha triumphat election of
the reform candidates will again vin
dicate Democratic institutions by
showing that the indignation of the
people against official rascality, if
sometimes slow in its expression, is al
ways sure to be expressed in the end
and to be terrible when aroused.
A STUDENT OF C.RANTISM.
In the list of Republican Inspectors
of Election for the Sixteenth Election
District of the Second Assembly Dis
trict I see the name of one who in Oc
tober, 1868, pleaded guilty in the C.
S. Court to a charge of opening letters
in the post office, and applying the
mone}’ found in them. Sentence was
suspended on account of his youth, as
he was then under twenty-one years
of age, and he has not been pardoned.
The Inspector referred to is Wta. H.
McLean. The records of the United
States Circuit Court show that in ,Octo-
tober, 1867, Wm. McLean,an employee
in the post office, was indicted for
opening letters before delivery. In
February, 1S6S, he pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Benedict, Assistant .District
Attorney Beil, appearing for the prose
cution as the representative of Samuel
G. Courtney. Sentence was suspended
and the prisoner discharged. Mr. Wm.
Wood, the book publisher of Walker
street, was the person whose money
had been stolen.
THE IiOBRERY OF THE CLERKS.
The 1,700 employees of the Custom
House in this city were yesterday
blackmailed by the orders of Secretary
Chandler in accordance with the pro
visions of the famous secret circular
issued by him. Senator Simon Came
ron and Postmaster Edmunds, the Re
publican Committee, received by this
process $35,000. On Saturday the
whole of the sum was immediately
sent to Ohio and Indiana, as a part of
the corruption fund for those States.
HOW THE REPEATERS ARE TAID.
The repeaters sent from Philadelphia,
New York and Chicago are paid from
a special fund raised mainly by the
Pennsylvania Cameron ring.
WHY SCHEMES OF FRAUD WILL FAIL.
The plans to cheat the people next
week will fail signally, because Ohio,
West Virginia and Indiana are thor
oughly informed not merely of the ex
istence of the plot, but of the details of
it, and all honest people in those States
will unite in balking mercenary ras
cals who have gone there to cheattbem.
They will organize committeesin every
election district for fhe purpose of
watching strangers and their commu
nications with election Judges. Their
wathers at the polls will be looking out
-for all sleight-of-hand tricks with the
ballot, and seeing the count and returns
are faily made-
Splendid Reports from Indiana
—Democratic Gains Over tlie
Vote of 1872.
Special Correspondence of the Gourier.j
Indianapolis, Oct. 2,1876.—We are
coming, Uncle Jimmy, 210,000 strong.
Carry the news to every Democratic
household in the country, Mr. Courier,
that Indiana will olcct Blue Jeans Wil
liams Governor on to-morrow week.
The Democrats have got the Republicans
of this State by tlic throat, and they are
giving them a terrible shaking up.
Every single county in the State has re
ported from twenty to two hundred gains
over the vote of 1872. There is no use
talking now ; the jig’s up, the day is ours,
the child is bom and his name is Wil
liams. E. X. Smalley, the intelligent
correspondent of the New lork Tribune }
left for home Saturday. Mr. Smalley
has been making a thorough canvass in
the State for his paper, and speaking oc
casionally tor the kid-gloved Harrison,
but now he has gone. Captain Thomp
son of the New Ycrk Herald met him at
the depot in Columbus, Ohio, last night
and accosted him with, “Halloo. Smal
ley, wither goest thou ?” “Sic ? I m going
to New York.” “Well, how’s Indiana ?”
“ The Democrats will certainly carry it,”
was the flat-footed answer. Good-bye
Smalley.
Morton is as mad as a March hare, and
says that the campaign has not been prop
erly managed. Foster and Brady are at
outs, and there is the devil to pay in the
Radical camp. “ Money! money! mon
ey!” is the only cry, the only hope.
Ohio is cursed for being so close. They
think that the name of the negative
Birchard ought to be a tower of strength
in his own Stale and that there ought to
be no question abont the result of the
election in that State. And be jabbers
and there is not much question about it,
for Bell, the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State, will be elected certain.
I have met a dozen gentlemen there to
day. They are enthused all over at the
bright prospects. The Germans every
where all over the State are flocking to
the banner of Tilden, Hendricks and Re
form. The Democrats are alive and ac
tive, and in some places even the negroes
MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1876.
SIQEL TO INGEESOLL.
Tie German General Rakes the
Apostle of Hate With
are the Republicans and -going it slajght
for Tilden. While the lamp holdspift to
burn the vilest sinner can come iiojhe
fold and vote the Democratic tiket-
even Big Bob Ingersoll. Indiana and
Ohio, the two great Western States, Ipth
going Democratic Tuesday week. 1 ft
that glorious news ? I rather gui
But, steady, hoys, all along the line. Fe
must not relax an effort, and see to it ift
every Democrat in the State poljp its
vote.
Much good, hard earnest and efti
v.’ork can be done in the next week,
close ward and precinct .organ!
everywhere is worth five thousand
for Undo Jimmy Williams at the ,-olls.
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Fifty able Democratic speakers left In
dianapolis this morning for various point)
in the State to filll their appointment!.
The campaign this week will be boilitg
hot. Northern Indiana never was aroustd
like it is now. The Democrats of ttot
section are doing noble and effeetre.
Leading men in the party have quit tieir
business and gone out among the people
to work for the ticket. They are fiar-
fully in earnest and very confident. The
Democrats of Lafayette have got a tre
mendous bulge on the Republicans, .md
are working unceasingly, day and ni^it;
to carry the district. Brown, Republican^
carried it in 1872 by 603 majority, and
the Democrats this year hope and claim
to give it to Blue Jeans by that much!
The Democrats of Fort Wayne are mat
ing a good fight and adding new recruit;
to the ranks daily. They claim that
Allen, the banner Democratic county ol
Indiana, will give an increased majority,
and they are betting their money on the
Twelfth district going Williams over
-5,000 majority. The Democrats of
Evansville, Crawfordsville, Loganspori,
Richmond, and South Bend are putting
in their best licks. From every city,
town and county, in the State comes the
news that the Democrats are active and
vigilant There is a probability now thit
the Democrats will elect ten Congressmen
out of the thirteen to be chosen, as tl)e
Republicans will swap off their Congrea-
men and everything for Harrison. This
“swapping” business will beat Sexton in
the Fourth district, Chambers in the
Sixth, and seals the fate of Browne in the
Fifth. Poor Tom Browne, they sacriice
him every time. Morton swapped l’iru^
off four years .agu wlicu ue ran lor Ouv
cruor, so that lie could obtain the Legis
lature to elect himself to the United
States Senate. “ Give two votes for one
for Harrison” is the word sent out, and
many a poor devil on the Radical State
and county tickets will be snowed under
by the cruel and desperate command.
But it is “ politics.” O. O. S.
—a—mmmmim
The Fastest Time on Record.
Louisville, Ky., September 27.— 1 This
was the extra day of the Lousisyille
jockey Club’s fall racing meeting, and
it proved replete with surprises and
astonishing events. The weather was
cool and bright, just of that bracing
nature to entice a large crowd to the
race track, particularly as Harper’s
famous colt, Ten Broeck, was to make
his run against time, dash of four
miles. While there were a good many
strangers present, thousands of home
people crowded the stands and place of
vantage, making the enclosure seem
like a bustling, busy world of its own.
Crouse’s bay colt Add also made the
attempt with Ten Broeck.
The trial resulted in a marvellous
success, for Ten Broeck ran the distance
in the remarkable time of 7:151, beat
ing Fellowcraft’s great Saratoga heat of
7:191 just 35 seconds, while it is four
seconds quicker than Lexington’s time
in New Orleans in 1855. Besides this
there was a sweepstake for two-year
olds, dash of one mile, and a purse of
$150, for all ages, heats of three-quar
ters of a mile. The two-year-old event
was wou by the bay filly' Belle of the
Meade in 1:441, the fastest on record
for the age. The heat race was captured
by Eastern Planet.
BEATING FELLOWCRAFT’S TIME.
The association having offered a spe
cial purse of $1,000 to beat Fellowcraft’s
time of 7:19 J, four miles, made at Sar
atoga. August 20, 1S74, there were two
entries—F. B. Harper’s bay colt Ten
Broeck, 4 years, by imported Phaeton,
dam Fanny Holton, and D. J. Crouse’s
bay colt Add, 4 years, by Revolver,dam
Skylight. Each carried 104 pounds.
The betting was abotit even last night,
but to-day, with a clear sky and good
track before them, the people of Ken
tucky put their money on the horse,
letting strangers look after the time.
In the send-off - , Add led Ten Broeck
half a length, but soon took second
place, and from then on steadily
dropped behind.
The mile was made in very slow
time, 1:525. Harper, Ten Broeck’s
owner, stood at the string and waved
his hat to go on. The jockey complied,
and the second mile was made in 1:451
and the third mile in 1:461. At the
commencement of the fourth mile, Add
was a dozen lengths behind. The chest
nut filly Necy Hale was sent in to help
Ten Broeck keep the pace on the last
mile, and running up alongside, the
two galloped together to the quarter
mile, when Ten Broeck shot in front
and was never again behind, but ltd
the dance to the end. As he came down
the stretch, the thousands who had been
as quiet as possible, now feeling Fellow
craft’s time would soon be wiped, out,
gave forth loud, long and enthusiastic
cheers. The last mile was made in
1:505 ; the entire distance in 7:155. Mr.
Frank Harper was congratulated by
hundreds, amid wild scenes of dancing,
shouting, hat throwing, etc. Willie
Walker rede the victor, and Bobbie
Swim was on Add, wbo on the finish
was at the distance pole.
An offer of $120,000 for Tenbroeck
has been rejected.
Many of the gallant soldiers who
stood by the flag are in their graves.
Many of our people who took an active
partin the contest have passed away.
Many persons who then were children
have come of age, and are now voters. ,— , .
But truth never changes.—Dick Smith, rections, to bring home the products of
Asia, of Africa, of Europe, while six
thousand of our vessels after the war
were rotting in our harbors cr sold as
old iron to the lowest bidder? And
S’iUIE'h ; eiir;E W.iy end you not mention that little, in the Everett House yesterday, to as-
but glorious old republic of Switzer- certain the condition of the Democratic
iire< "Aland ? Why not ? Have you never canvas in the State of New York. I n
NEW SERIES-NO. 6
The Campaign-
A Sun reporter visited the headquar
ters of the Democratic State Committee
And Tout-1:0 Up the Field .Marshals of the
Bloody H<rt Hnsa.ie ill <:*I-
•; - ■ j. - Ttit* tlfoln -
(Sen. Sigel, tije distinguished Ger-
man-Atuencan soldier, delivered
speech to 8,000 Germans fn Cincinnati
last Thursday night, and before com
mencing his speech, rjad the following
open letter to CoL R. J. IngMili. who
had spoken the night before :
Mp .Degr.ColoniL: , e-
l iieard your speech, dr at least some
pait of it, last night, and was delighted
indeed, but as honest difference of
opinion seems to me & Republican
privilege, you will, I hope, permit me
to make a few remarks. It would not
do to draw a dividing line beween the
North and the South-tbere is only
one American people and one Ameri
can history—nor was the war of rebel
lion, in all its terrible features, any
thing but an American war, a civil
war, a war between Americans, tbe
people of oue soil and one country. It
will not da, my dear Colonel, to go
back to the fugitive slave law and
prove that Americans were the greatest
rascals on earth, unless you go further
back and prove that Ameriicans, who
burned men and women, exiled Roger
Williams and Hutchinson, and enacted
the blue laws, were the greatest sav
ages and hypocrites on the globe. It
Will not do, my dear Colonel, to accuse
the people of the South of the institu
tion of slavery, with all its conse
quences, unless you go back and prove
that tbc slaves were introduced on
Spanish, English, Dutch, German and
American vessels; that the slave trade
was kept up with persistent pertinaci-
by England and New England;
at it was favored and maintained by
all means in their power; that the
cargoes of tbe slave vessels were empt
ied on American soil: that not only
the South, but also the North, held
slaves against even the protests of
Southern freemen, and that slavery
indirectly acknowledged and
legalized as an American institution in
the fundamental law of the American
people—the American Constitution.—
It would not do, my dear Colonet, to
accuse the “Southern” people of all the
evils and terrors of that black institu
tion, unless you show that it was also
introduced on account of commercial
considerations, and was forced on
can soil and made a lawful in-
K( —''*‘41.‘^!'pKitooil,111.
ren's children ot the American people.
It would notdo, my dear Colonel, to
throw the great responsibility for all
the inhumanity and crimes committed
in the name and behalf of slavery up
on the South alone, unless you also
show that the power and the wealth of
the American people, of which you
boast, were the result of Southern cot
ton and Southern gold, that it was
pressed out of the labor and the sweat
of the black man by the Yankee or
American lash, exchanged wi ti North
ern labor and deposited in Northern
banks. You must not boast, of the ab
olition of slavery by the Republican
party unless you show that the majori
ty of the American peopl*- was not
for .-udden and absolute emancipation
of slavery before the outbreak of the
rebellion, but that its abolishment was
the result of the war, and war was the
resulting irrepressible conflict whose
germ lay in the American Constitution
itself. And as an historin of the first
order—as an honest man—as you cer
tainly are supposed to be, you must not
forget that slavery would exist to-day,
if it had not been for those millions of
free men whom Europe has sent you,
and who gave you the physical and
moral forces, that great balance of
power, which made it possible for you,
the American people, to maintain the
Government and overthrow the South
ern empire. You must, therefore, be
just and not blind us with crippled
ideas and false pretenses, and as I am
one of those who came to this, your
great county, not bv chance merely,
but by choice, and- assisted yon as
much as I could in the hour of danger,
I maintain that we did not fight for
the suppression and eternal strife and
war, but for liberty and peace, and we
mean to have it now in spite of bloody-
shirt speeches and bloody-shirt men.—
Yes, we mean to have peace, not only
in the North, but also in the South ;.we
mean to have the great States of Vir
ginia, Georgia and Alftoama as free
and self-governing as the States of Ver
mont and Rhode Island, or your own
State, Illinois. Colonel, you have done
well—beautifully well. You have fur
nished to the American people a mas
terpiece of genius and malice. You
have thrown a Popocatapeti of poison
overjthe land—and covered it with an
immense funeral sheet. You have done
well, and I hope that every American
heart will gladden at this masterly ex
posure of American ferocity, because
you have it noted down, and it will
stand forever that a man, a nice man
with the name of Jacob Thompson,
and a whelp, a nice whelp, with the
name of Dodd, did grow up in this
great, nice Republic, and behaved like
beasts, and women and children were
burned by your countrymen in the
nineteenth century. In comparison
with your gigantic efforts in vindica
tion of American honor and the bloody
shirt, the efforts of Oliver P. Morton,
the Field Marshal of the Bloody Shirt
Brigade, of Kilpatrick, and innocent,
pious Brother Blaine, will dwindle
down to mere nothingness.
But one word more, for the sake of
history.. You speak of the Republic
of Venice. Did you ever know that a
Venitian, with the name of Marco
Polo, in his last will and testament,
emancipated his slaves, or that slavery
was abolished as far.back as the mid
dle of the fifteenty century, and Venice
did never participate in American slave
trade ? Or do y ou know that when the
Venetian Republic elected a Doge the
first condition was that he could not,
under penalty of death, enter into any
speculation; while here, in our palmy
days, the President of the United States
or his Cabinet Ministers, etc., can?—
Did you ever know that Venice, al
though only a city,’ had almost as
many vessels as we have to-day, and
that in time of peace their naval fleet
was transformed into a merchant fleet
and chartered and sent out in all di-
heurd of it ? I do not think so, but I
do think vou do not like to mention it,
because that- Republic was a purely
Dembcratic institution, based on J
ocratic principles, a confederacy' grow
ing up a; a confederacy, developing to
a national confederacy! and" standing
to-day a: a shining example of self-
government, of unity without tyranny,
of nationalism without centralism, of
freedom without intolerance and Know-
NdthingiuA. >T&ere are ho Belknaps
lAeitvor Packards, or Caseys. You
have also forgotten that glorious Con
federacy .of the United Netherlands—
bqt you have not forgotten the Repub
lic of Egypt. Astonishing! What do
you mean? The republic of Moses
and his friend Herod ? or the republic
of the Pharaohs? or of the Saracens
and Mussulmans ? or of the beautiful
and accomplished Hypatia? or of the
Khedive and bis American friends ?—
I am sure you did not mean that, but
if I am not mistaken you meant that
beautiful little republic in Egypt, Il
linois. so near to and yet so far from
your Republican heart. I hope you
will awaken there safely on tbe 8th of
November, and find that the Egyptian
republic, with all its imperishable
Democrats, had voted for Tilden and
Hendricks. Good-tye, my dear Colo
nel ; sleep well, and be not disturbed
by the ghosts of Egypt. Your friend
and comrade, F. Sigel.
P. S.—I hear that you are accused of
being an iufidel. I deny this accusa
tion. I brand it as an infamous inven
tion and a lie, because I know that you
believe in something in which no man
in America believes—you believe in
the virtue of the Republican party.
F. S.
Grant Wanted to be a Confeder
ate.
Chicago Times Special.]
St. Louts, Sept. 26.—Jeff. Chaudler,
heretofore one of the leading Republi
cans of this State, has been called upon
by the Republicans of the Third District
to accept tbe nomination for Congress.
He has written a letter which will be pub
lished to-morrow, in which he declines to
be a candidate, and says: “lam not in
sympathy with the Cincinnati platform,
and can l<r support its nominees.”
Chandler is form Michigan, and is a
relative oi' the notorious Zach. He is a
raduate of Michigan University, and
served with the Michigan troops during
the late war, rising from the ranks to be
r i. v .cgimem. lie settled in
Missouri after tbe war, and up to this
lime has been a leading man in the Re
publican our tv. He was on the ticket as
Attorney-General which Gen. John B.
Henderson beaded four years years ago.
The district in which he is asked to run
is that in which R. G. Frost is the Dem-
cratic candidate. Frost is the son of
Gen. D. M. Frost, who commanded the
State troops here at the outbreak of the
war, and was captured at Camp Jackson
by Blair and Lyon at the head of the
home guards, on the ground that Frnst
intended to take the troops into the Con
federate service. Frost, now, has the
original letter written to himself and Gen
eral Sterling Price when the Missouri
troops were organiz’ng, before the attack
on Fort Sumter, from Ulysses S. Giant,
theu at Gelena, asking for a commission
in the force South and offering to espouse
the Southern cause. General Frost de
clines to make public the letter, claiming
that it would not be honorable. If,
however, an attack be made on young
Frost by reason of bis father’s Confeder
ate record, the letter will be produced.
The existence of this letter is an indis
putable fact, and neither the President
nor his friends dare deny it. Grant’s per
sonal habits during his residence with the
Dents had been so bad that his offer was
not accepted, and about five months af
terward be went to Springfield and offered
his services to Yates for the Federal
army.
Manufacture of Paper.
Of the 1,300,000,000 human beings in
habiting the globe, 360,000,000 have no
writing material of any kind; 500,000,-
000 of the Mongolian race use a paper
made from tbe stalks and leaves of
plants; 10,000,000 use for graphic pur
poses tablets of wood; 130,000,000—tbe
Persians, Hindoos, Armenians and Sy
rians—have paper made from cotton,
while the remaining 300,000,000 use the
ordinary staple. The annual consump
tion by thi3 latter number, is estimated at
1,800,000,000 pounds, an average of six
pounds to the person, which has in
creased from two and a half pounds
during the last fifty years. To produce
this amount of paper, 200,000,000 pounds
of woolen rags, besides great quantities
of linen rags, straw, wood, and other ma
terials, are yearly consumed. The paper
is manufactured in 4,960 papei mills, em
ploying 90,000 male and 180,000 female
laborers. The proportionate amounts
of the different kinds of paper are stated
to be: Of writing paper, 300,000,000
pounds; ot printing paper, 900,000,000
pounds; of wall paper, 400,000,000, and
200,000.000 pounds of cartoons, blotting
paper, etc.
While Bnutwell is going around mak
ing lying speeches about the South, and
justifying his proposition to reduce Mis
sissippi to a territory, Tilden and Hen
dricks colored clubs are organizing all
over the State. Ex-Senator Revels, the
first negro who took a seat ia the United
States Senate, leads the movement. A
colored club at Magnolia, Miss., have is
sued and address, in which they say:
“ We are weary of being the victims
of the lies of the carpet-baggers, the in
struments of demagogues and office-seek
ers.” “The Democrats of Mississippi
have fulfilled every promise made to col
ored citizens last year. They have re
duced taxes one half, the expenses of
each of the committee’s rooms were
unmistakable indications that vigorous
and effective work is being done. In
the business room Mr. Daniel Magone,
the Chairman, and Mr. Wm. W. Gor
don, the Secretary of the Committee,
were busy answering the questions of
ohairmen of county coommittees, pres
idents of campaign clubs mid other in-
“uiiing visitors. In the working rooms,
erks were preparing documents for
lAraMls.-!-
To the reporter’s question, M^ Ma-
gone replied that more work was being
done than had been attempted in buy
previous canvas. Large numbers of
documents were being pent in every
election district, arrangements were
being rapidly perfected for mass meet
ings in every county, and an accurate
canvas of the voters in every election
district was in progress. Since the can
vas opened, twelve^hundred Tilden and
Hendricks clubs had been organized in
the State.
“The reports that we have received
from the various counties,” said Mr.
Magone, “are much more favorable
than they were at this stage of the can
vas in 1874. The information that
comes to us is precise and definite, and
affords much better evidence of the con
dition of affairs than the opinions of
influential politicians. These opinions
a.e usually based on fceresay testimony,
which, at best, is vague and uncertain.
Most of our information is in the shape
of reports containing the names of elec
tors in cities, towns and villages who
Lave declared their intention to vote for
Tilden and Hendricks. On nearly
every one of those reports are names of
men who have heretofore voted the Re
publican ticket. These reports are con
fined to known cases, and therefore fur
nish good evidence of the drift of pub
lic sentiment.”
“ Do your reports indicate that many
Republicans will vote the Democratic
ticket?”
“ They snow,” answered Mr. Magone,
“ very large accessions to our ranks
from the Republican party. There is
scarcely a town in the State in which
some Republicans have not come over
to us. In some towns where there are
500 voters the accessions number from
twenty-five to fifty. Many of these Re
publicans have joined Tilden and Hen
dricks clubs; others have'openly de
clared their change of political relations.
In addition to these, there are many
who, for various reasons, maintain a
cvuucotion nltlr the Ilcjiubll*
can party, but say that they shall vote
lor Gov. Tilden, for the sake of a change
in the Administration. These acces
sions,” continued Mr. Magone, “do not
come from the floating voters, who are
usually uncertain up to the day of the
election. They are from the best class
of citizens. Most of those whose names
have been sent to us are business men,
manufacturers, merchants, farmers and
mechanics.”
“Are these changes general through
out the State, or are they confined to
particular regions?”
“ Our reports indicate that we are re
ceiving accessions from the Republican
party in every county in the S:ate,” an
swered Mr. Magone. “They are larger,
however, in the agricultural and mining
districts than in the cities.”
‘ Can you give an estimate of the
number of Republicans who will vote
for Gov. Tilden ?”
“ We have not received complete re
turns from every election district in the
State. But if the reports to come show
anj’thing like as great a change as those
which we have received, the accessions
will amount to nearly, if not fully, ten
per cent, of the Republican vote in the
State.”
“ Do you not expect to lose some
Democratic votes in the counties in
which the Canal Ring were once pow
erful?” .
“We shall certainly lose some in
those counties,” replied Mr. Magone.
“ But in no event can the loss amount
to 5,000 votes. And that loss will be
more than balanced by the gains that
we shall make in the agricultural dis
tricts in those very counties. The farm
ers in those counties are taxpapers.
They know that the Canal Ring stole
more than $2,000,000 yearly, and that
Gov. Tilden, by his exposure of the
Ring, saved the people that sum, and
thereby lessened their taxes. They will
surely vote for the man who did them
that service. The Canal Ring did all
they could last year. But they did not
defeat the State ticket. They certainly
cannot defeat us this year.”
“How much majority do you think
Gov. Tilden will receive in this State?”
asked the reporter.
“ In my opinion,” replied Mr. Ma
gone, “Gov. Tilden will carry this State
by 75.000 majority.’-’
At this Gov. Tilden, who had enter
ed the room while Mr. Magone was
speaking, said:
“I don’t sec how the majority can
be any less; and if those Western States
do what we expect them to do, it will
be larger.”
Then, in reply to a question as to
the effect of the result in Ohio and
Indiana on the Presidential election,
the Governor said, “ if the Democrats
carry both Indiana and Ohio the battle
will’ be easily won. If wc carry Indi
ana, and the Republicans carry Ohio,
there will be a good fight all along the
line. If we loose both of those States,
we shall have to fight hard. But I
think we shall succeed.”
The Governor added that Indiana
and Ohio should go Democratic. “Ad
vices from Illinois,” said he, “indicate
that changes similar to those which are
going on in this State are taking place
there. If that is so, I should think
there ought to be similar changes in
Ohio and Indiana.
The Washington Dove.—Again that
persecuted innocent, Gen. Baocock, is to
walk from a court of justice an acquitted
Ona-Ult column three mo
One-half column six i
One-hall column twelve l
One column one month.
One column three mouths...
One column air moo tin —1M M
Oao column twelve month*. ISO M
foregoing raton are for either Weekly
or Tri-Weekly. When publiahed in both papere,
so per cant, additional upon table ratal.
Honest government comes with TlldeD.
_ The Cuban belles at Saratoga smoke
cigarettes at their bed-room windows.
God being my judge, I do notask for
a better government, or want a better
government, than we have now.—Ogles-
The New York Tones, of Sept. 28tb,
says, with reference to the Indiana
election, “so far as Harrison is con
cerned, he loses.”-
The Republican party cannot cover
up its corruption by Hangwhanging,
however vigorously the scullion organa
may make the attempt—Net* Horen
Register.
The same men who went from Phil
adelphia to Ohio, when Hayes was
elected Governor, have now gore to
Indiana and Ohio to repeat their frands
in the October elections.
mm 0"
The Pittsburg Gazette. Rep., coolly
says of the Taft infamy: “The Gov
ernment has simply employed precau
tions that are necessary, and that it
would be criminal not to employ.”
The charges against Edwin D. Mor
gan the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor of New York, with reference to
his career as United States Senator,
seems to have a marked effect upon the
canvass of that State.'
Evidently there Is not going to be
any Democratic disaffection this year.
John Kelly has taken the stump and
is speaking nightly, while it is under
stood that the two Tammany parties
have buried the hatchet.
The Republican leaders were unable
to find a cloak to cover their iniquities,
so they took the next best thing—
Hayes. But it is too thin; the people
see through the maze and discover the
reeking mass of corruption behind it
It appears to be certain that the col
ored vote of the South will not be
solid for the Republicans this year.—
Indeed, a gentleman from Louisiana
recently claimed a majority for the
Democrats. Whatever the party effect
may be it is an encouraging sign to see
the class or race vote divided.
Government, and, instead of depriving man. The safc-bnrglary case, like the
us of educational privileges, they give
oar children five months of schooling,
while they only had four under the Re
publicans.” “ We are not the enemies
of the whites; we have need of their
friendship, and their influence and their
counsels/’
In 1875, the last year of Repcblican
rule, the State taxes amounted to 6618,-
000; for 1876, the first year of Demo
cratic control, the State taxes are only
$200,605. It doesn’t take great learning
to appreciate the facts.
whiskey case, despite the vigorous effort
of the government to convict, falls to the
gronud, and Babcock triumphs. This
time so plentiful is the supplv of white
wash that Cook declares his client’s char
acter fully vindicated and his good name
unstained, as Boss Shepherd pronounces
him “ as white as a dove.” So ends the
judicial farce. But what says the army ?
Is this unstained Washington dove re
garded by his brother officers as a fitting
person to wear the uniform of the army
of the United States ?—Neu; Tori Herald.
Gov. Tilden reduced the tax of New
York in the first year of his adminis
tration 81,520,801 47; in the second
year the reduction was more than $5,-
000,000 over the first, and the whole
reduction from- the last year of Gen
eral Dix’s administration is $7,198,-
307 76, or nearly one-half the total
tax. _
vyiien me ttnclr fog hangs over a
city it is impossible to see the sun.—
If the people would have the gorgeous
orb of prosperity shine upon this
broad land, they must defeat th^ in
tention of the Republicans to force a
Hayes over the country under the cov
er of which they expect to continue
the work of corruption without the
knowledge of the public.
The Cameron conspiracy against the
suffrage is not confined to Pennsylva
nia. A large number of the most des
perate roughs of New York, who have
had experience in election frauds and
riots have been hired by the conspira
tors and shipped to various points in
the different States which v-Ae on Oct.
10th. Democrats in those States will
watch for organized fraud and defeat
it, from whatever quarter it may
There is a little nitro-glyceriue and
dynamite mine now laying under the
Hell Gate of the Radical party of this
country, to be touched off the 7th of No
vember, that will produce a deeper shock
and a3 ;moo‘.h sailing a; the last Sunday’s
job dare do. The reef is deep-laid ras
cality, the explosive to do the work is pop
ular indignation and reform, and the
match to touch it off is the little silent
ballot! Throw open your doors and
windows on election day.— Whitehall
(Ilib) Register.
Disgust is rapidly alienating the bet
ter class of Republicans in thh com
munity from their party and its candi
dates. The organs do not tell about it,
and not a lisp of disaffection is heard
on the platform of Faneuil or Music
Hall. But the time has come when
men who have but to reach out their
hands to receive honor and office from
the party do not hesitate to announce
in private conversation their detestation
of the party methods and their dispo
sition to vote for Tilden and Adams.—
Boston Post.
It is now simply a question whether
public opinion will tolerate the en
forcement by the executive of laws
which the Supreme Court have de
clared that Congress bad no power to
pass. It is simply a question whether
the president of the United States shall
be confined in his ex;cution of laws to
those which Congress had constitutio
nal power to enact, or shall be per
mitted to m<«ke law at his own pleas
ure and enforce it by milittary power.
It is a mere question whether a-presi
dent, who has been told by the Supreme
Court of the United States that Con
gress has never yet enacted a law that
can be regarded as an execution of a
special power confided in it, shall lie
permitted to tell his subordinates to
tnforce'as law that whi ;h is no law a*
all’ It is a question whether we live
under a government of laws or nnder
tiie will of a dictator.—Geo. Ticlnnr
Cdrtit.
On the supposition thaj the presi
dential election may be very close-
that the matter of a dozen electional
v etes may be all the preponderance one
way or the other—fears are expressed
in some quarters of serious troubles'
ahead. It is apprehended on the one
side that, if Tilden should “carry”
Mississippi and J/auisiana by force and
intimidation and be elected by a ma
jority of half a dozen votes, the votes
of those States will not be counted by
the Republican Senate. On the other
hand is is supposed that if certain of
the Southern States where troops arc
used go for-Hayes, and thus secure his
election, the Democratic House will not
count them because of the belief that
t lie result was obtained by the intimi
dation of the Democrats by the army,
and that the use of the army was ille-
cnl, unconstitutional, Ac. Thus it is
Creaded by some that we may have a
a contest over the electoral vote which
will shake the very foundations of the
country.—Washington Star.