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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CKDAUTOVVN, IJKORdIA, I'HI DAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1876.
VOL. III. NO. 14.
TIMELY TOPICS.
I’m: mails continue to bring newa of
terrible atrocities in Bulgarin by the
Turks. At one place 3,000 people were
killed, children of lroth sexes were car*
riod ah ut the streets on bayonets, and
people burned alive. At another place
1,000 pcr.-ons who o He red no resistance
were killed, anil a bag full of Human
heads wns opened in the sltvota lie fore
the house of the Italian consul, ami
eaten by the dogs.
This is pretty good religion as the
world goes: A deacon living a Berk
**hir*» town was requested to give his
prayers in behalf of a poor man with
a large family, who had litokcn his leg.
“I can’t stop now to pray,” said the dea
con (who was picking and barrelling his
early apples for the city market), “hut
you can go down into my collar and got
some corned l**'.' - , salt [>ork, [totatoes and
butter—that's the best I can do."
Ini. new loan which tht* Spanish gov
ernment has seemed to cover the ex-
pensesof tluj I’uhan wnr—from 15,000,-
000 to 15,000,000 peseta*—will amount
tc Pfearly *1,500,000, for which Spain pays
ton j*er rent interest with two per cent
for expenses. The Cuban cup toms’ rev
enue-air the guaranty of the debt. This
amount, however, large as it is, is but a
drop in the bucket. The Cuban war is
now in its eighth year, and, sine* it first
broke out, the attempt to govern Culm
has cost Spain $500,000,000, not includ
ing the expenses incurred by the govern
ment of Cuba, and nn actual loss by war
and disease of 100,000 men.
Till: saloof the Missouri Pacific rail
road in St. Ixjuis, the Oth instant, Ulus-
i rates the financial condition of railtoads
in the Cnitod States. The Missouri Pa
cific was wild to Mr. Andrew Pierce for
#3,000,000. The 1 mnded debt of the
company is $15,000,000, and classified as
follows: First mortgage, #7,000,000; sec
ond mortgage, $2,700,000; real estate
1 Kinds, $800,000; Carondolet branch,
$.»00,000; third mortgage, $1,000,000.
The stockholders are extinguished, and
get nothing, and the proceeds of the sale
will not pay fifty cents on the dollar of
the first mortgage bond*. There are not
a down railroad cnqio rations in the
United Slates that will escape the same
mode of liquidation. The whole system
must, lie reorganized, and it will lie bet
ter for tho business interest and the
general prosperity of the country.—Atv/-
Uuichn.
The Railroads of the World.
Ur. O. Stuermer, of BromU-rg, Prus-
sia. Ims collected statistics showing the
railroad construction of the world during
the year 1875, nnd the total numlicr of
"ides in oiieration at the dose of the
year. With corrections of the United
States and Canada made by tho New
imk I tail road Gazette, the summary of
which is as follows :
Germany at present leads European
countries in the mileage of its railroads.
Great Britain held first place at the be
ginning of 1872, but during the year
Germany opened 1,198 miles of road,
against 250 in Great Britain. Kranre
ojiened 573 miles of road ; Austria, -107;
Swecden, *106 ; Switzerland, 288: Italy
P.d; Denmark, 13(1; Russia, 81; Portu
gal lit); and Belgium 02. The total
mileage in the principal European coun
tries is as follows: Germany, 17,872;
Great Britain, 10,099; France, 13,111 •
Russia, 11,525; Austria, 10,792; Paly’
1.777 ; Spain, 8,602; Sweden, 2,465*
Belgium, 2,107; Switzerland, 1,293;
llollaiiil. 1,011. In proportion to area,
Belgium has the greatest railway mile
age of any country in the world. Great
Britain stands next in order, and in pro-
portion toiler population stands first in
•he scale. Russia, in projiortion to tier
immeriN' area, hns the least railroad de
velopment ol any European country.
Forty-eight ami one half per cent, of the
railroad mileage in the world is in Eu
rope.
North America has forty-three and a
half per cent, of the total milage of the
world, and the United States alone forty
and n half per cent. The number of
miles in the 1 niteri States is 74,188 ; in
< .maria. 4,837, nnd in Mexico. 377.
There were constructed in the United
States in 1875, 1,545 miles. This i«
more than was constructed in any other
country, though when the area is taken
into consideration the progress was not
near ni great as that of Germany, nnd
b‘*s than that in a number of’ other
countries.
It i- -iid of the nice old maid that «hc
moved through the world in a stately,
statuesque kind of way, making the des
pair of all the men who loved her—per
haps the more because she was unattain
able ; and now when old she is the same,
with just the difference l>etwecn the lily
when it stands up in its first young
bloom, and the lily when it is drooping
t" R* fall—between wax, fresh, bloomy,
rosy, and wax, faded, yellow, and with
all the bloom rubbed off Young or obi,
she j- niways of the same spiritual tv[*-,
virginal, untroubled by dreams, uri-
touched by the senses in any direction,
with a few. very few affections. A wo
man whom the love of man never
warmed ; the care** of a child never
thrilled: the modest vessel, the protest-
ant nun; in the world, but not of it;
passionless nnd [Hire—but a statue, not
LATEST NEWS.
auvTn ahn wk«t
James Clark died in New Orleans Mo*-
day from hydrophobia.
Georgia shipped by her various rail
roads 239,869 watermelons in 18rj, Ithd onlv
184,764 this year
Them Wore shipped from Charleston,
M. last week. 7,ISO barrels of resin, most
of it going to Rotterdam and I .iverpool.
i lie price of picking cotton in Georgia
is forty cents per hundred, without rations;
in Mississippi nnd ArknttMUi sixty cents, or
fifty pent* with Vntions.
Macon, Gn., expects to receive the
coming season, 76,000 hales of cotton, against
54,000 liut, ard Columbus expect* 65,000
ngaiust 52,f00.
The Itnuh'cVlnen of Minneapolis re
port that there are 1,750,000 feet of logs on
their hands. They regard the lumber mark
et ns overstocked.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson, of New Orleans,
died last wvVktUhis old homo, St. Joseph,
Me. \thero he had hem visiting for Ill’s
health for some time past.
The Salt Lake courts have ordered ex
ecution to he issued on Brigham Young’s
horses, carriages and other Hoods, to satisfy
an attachment tor three thotltaud six hun
dred dollars alimony duo Ann Elisa, his
In order to obtain this information I have
written to the auditors of flit- cattle-growing
states and territories for tho actual number
of cuttle assessed ill the year I860, also for
the number in 1875, in order to show the in
crease in fifteen years.
The cattle trade of the wjulh\vest and
west has grown t\> ho one of tho groat factors
to the general business prosperities of tho
country. The following table made by a
correspondent of the Kansas City Brice Cur
rent of last month sin wn how uiiirh this
branch of industry has grown. Me quote
from his letter:
Charleston (B. ('.) News and Courier:
A little duck, while swimming ill a pond
near the SavniiNnh mid Charleston railroad
depot, a day or two ago, was caught by the
foot by nn oyster, and, as tho tide won com
ing up, would have henn drowned had not
its erios attracted the nttciitlou of a work
man, who released it from its urn'oiiifnitnlilo
situation.
Theta is n chanco that tho new naval
rendezvous, which is to take the place of
three or more navy yards, will ho located nt
Tyhec or Coekspur island, or oil the coast of
(Scorgin. These points meet with some favor
among prominent naval officers, as either of
those islands afford superior natural advan
tages for such rendezvous. The Snvnntinh
river being fresh water is considered to he
tho most suitable harbor for our iron-dads,
as the deterioration of that class of vessels
is not so great in fresh as salt water. The
location of tho islands is such that they
could be easily defended in case of trouble
with any foreign power.
Intelligence, by way of Biamarck is,
that on the 31st of August, Crook was near
(Sloudiiip, south of the Yellowstone, eti route
to Qlendins for supplies. Terry was on the
north side or (lie Yellowstone, fifteen miles
below (Jlendinc, marching towards the Mis
souri. Eight miles helmv him the Josephine
saw a large fresh trail leading north, which
Hen. Terry should have struck .September
1st. The Josephine reports, thirty inches of
water in the Yellowstone on the 30th Inst.,
with fifteen inches nn the rapids, which she
passed over at that stage. The Far West is
almve the rapids, and will winter ill the
Yellowstone.
Tho vital statistics of Charleston are
attracting n good deal of scientific attention
other pHrts of the country. According to
b census the colored population of Charles-
:i exceeds the white Wy only ten per cent.,
d yet the deaths stand as follows for the
year ending June 30, 1870: Whites, 042;
adored 1,240. Of the colored there were 400
deaths under one year, while the whites un
der oue year were only 150. In Richmond,
Vs., during the week ending Saturday, July
12th, there died eleven whites and twenty-
one ldneks. The death rate thus is thirteen
in one hundred for the whites and twenty-
eight for the blacks. A Rich rnoml exchange
says that the summer is more fatal propor
tionately, to the whites than blacks, which
would make the above difference more
strongly marked for the whole year. In the
country districts it is probably not so bad.—
Savannah Xnr*.
All of the following stales and teoritorlea
have furnished me the official report for
>76, and some for I860, hut those who could
it g*ve rne the number for 1860 1 have got-
n from the interior department at Washing-
n, and other reliable sources, as follows:
Washington 1
As you see this statement loots up for the
ar I860, 3,831,000, and in 1875, 9,021,000,
showing an increase in the past fifteen years
of 5,190,000, in the fourteen principal cattle
growing suites and territories, fuel to this I
idd the number of cattle Texas drives
and ships to the nortli (as shedid not furnish
ast and north any prior to I860; and I
find that we now have about three times as
The cotton business nt Fall River,
Mass., has had a sudden revival, nnd for the
fir«t time since 1873 all the mill- are running
at a fair profit to the manufacturers. Fall*
River is a great manufacturing center, and
when business is brisk there it is generally
brisk throughout New England. On account
of the reductions in wages, labor costa no
more now than in England, and the opera
tives in American mills compare favorably
in skill with those abroad. American goods,
too, are well able to compete with English.
Of Mi" C0,W0 operatives la Fall River all me
employed, except, perhaps, a few stragglers,
which would fc« tit to indicate that the hard
limes are about over in at least that section
of the country.
rOIlKMJN.
Earl Unwell again writes a letter call
ing for nn autumn session of parliament
letter from the bishop of Manchester, calling
upon the people ns a nation to subscribe for
the relief of thl* RuIgnViiins, contains the fol
lowing sentence: "Come what may, nnd I
do not see that anything is likely, or even
possible to ouiue, which can endanger the
position of England, but it seems impossible,
if we are to have any reward for our honor or
our good tuuofi that \Vo should any longer
tWw, or even allow it to ho supposed that
we throw the shield of the protection of Eng
land over a power which, relying on that
protection, has done deeds which lies startled
and shocked Uie (thole civilized world.”
William M. Tweed nnd his cousin,
William Hunt, have hcou arrested In I'ort
Vigoon on hoard of a Spanish merchantman,
Carmen. Tweed was traveling under the
ninno of Seenr. Both prisoners arc lodged
in a fortress,
Tho principal countries of Europe owe
about $17,500,000,000 exelusivo of the unse
cured paper currencies and home debt*.
■imiHMiANKOVN.
Five hundred rattle in the firm of
meat are henceforth to he shipped every
week from the- United Slates to England.
There it is sold at less than half the price of
tho domcNlio article. America will Vet do
mi enormous trade in this staple.
The rc|M>rt of tho eonfotcnco committer
appointed by the Methodist Episcopal church
south to decide upon a basis for the union
of the two churches, is a wise document.
The divine purpose and scriptural founda
tion of both churches is acknowledged, nnd
the future unity is decreed. Sensible rules
are laid down in regard to the settlement of
the ownership of property in dispute, and a
desire is manifested to secure harmony and
charity and perfect brotherhood throughout
the Methodist body. This union, besides the
good effect which it will have upon the pro
gress of religion, cannot fail to produce
marked results politically. Removing the
distinction between tho northern and south
ern churches will tend to obliterate the dis
tinction between the unionist and the recon
structed rebel.— .Vnr York World,
I MF SOUTH PASS JETTIES.
XV111*I lin* lire,* (lone on llieiu. mill nlinl
New Orlriias I’lcnjrtinc.
From thu commencement, (’apt. Ends
ha* energetically prosecuted the work of
constructing the jetties and extending
them, with piling, mattress-work of wil
lows and stone, etc., until nearly all the
water of tho pass is now confined between
them. They have yet to be raised, with
additional mattresses and stone, nlaivo
high-tide mark where low, but some two
weeks ago there had Wen obtained at
the pass month and through its bar, a
deeper chnuncl limn lias ever existed at
the months of the Mississippi river since
its discovery—from twenty to twenty-
one feet depth, at average Hood tide, of
water.
\NV have no record of twenty feet
depth of water, even at high tide, at the
month of southwest pass, which now dis
charges nearly, if not quite, ouC-hnlf of
the whole river, or fully four times more
than the discharge of south pass; and
the fact of its ohluinmcut by jetty con
centration at tho mouth of south pass,
and the deepening of the gulf bottom
outside in advance, furnishes all the
proof needed that it is entirely practice-
ole to obtain and to maintain a deep
channel at the mouth of the Mississippi
river. That fact is now established.
As the question of the practicability
o’ obtaining a deep outlet to sea by
means of jetties may lie considered us
settled—the maintenance of which is
but a question of cost—the probable re
sult, of such an outlet upon the commer
cial interests of New Orleans may bo
considered.
It is now conceded that grain in bulk
can 1m> more cheaply transported to Eu
ropean markets by the Mississippi river
nnd gulf route than overland via our
Atlantic [torts, and just ns safely, so far
a* Ik ating or other riumngo is concerned,
as by tiny other route. In point of fact,
grain can bo delivered at Liverpool, or
else, vhere, via the Mississippi river and
gulf route, in better condition than by
any of the overland routes.
The obtninment of a deep navigable
channel through "anopenrivormonth,”
will, therefore, he followed by the devel
opment of an immense grain trade in this
direction. The, othercxporlahle products
of the Mississippi valley would, in great
part, also seek this route to Europe and
nonth America to a very large extent,
particularly when it is remembered that
the increase of products in the valley is
far greater, annually, than the increase
of the already deficient and more expen
sive means of overland transportation.
A new route is needed nnd is indispen
sable.
The vessels engaged in the Mississippi
river exports trade would, of course,
bring return cargoes of foreign goods,
and these would Is- transported to the
interior by steamers, barge lines and by
rail. All of the interior eities in the
valley would avail themselves of these
facilities for cheaper transportation, and
all would reati tlie benefit of it. New
Orleans would revive and prosper beyond
anything in the past, and her business
m« n would reap the full benefit of her
unrivaled position.
The problem of how to obtain and
maintain a deep navigable outlet to sea,
may safely lie considered as solved, Its
realization is only dependent upon a con
tinuance of work—the application of
the means necessary to complete! what
has lreen so well begun.
Georob Eliot says that a young
man’s eyes first open to the world when
lie is in love. This is not always so.
Usually it is when he has gone away
from home and had his wa hing sent cut
for the first time, and finds among it
when it is returned an old stocking with
two stripes about the top and long
enough to pull up around ins neck.
ROY. HENDRICKS.
Ilia Opi'itlii* Nprccli nt MiHli.vvIlle, In
iflnini. ,1 P»»*vi>rfiil ,l|i|H*nl •*» the
Notirr Jnilirniciit of the
My fellow-citizenss 1 lmd not ox
peeled to address you In the present polit
ical contest, but have yielded to the
urgent requestor friends, and will make
this ami a few other addresses to the
people.
In « recent speech Gov. Morton said
“ In Htteh a campaign, with slander a:
Mu* chief weapon, republicans must bo
excused if they speak plainly of tho jKtlit-
ieal character, history and purpose of
their antagonists.” At the close of that
speech there rOtuilihcri no question that
“ the campaign," so far us he could give
it character, was correctly described a«
one of slander. No man of intelligent
observation has fuilod to seb that mis
representation of tho motives of demo
crats is (ho purpose nnd policy of tho
proas ami speakers of the republican
party. They charge conduct, attribute
motives and iniputo sentiments and
opinions wholly unknown to the parties
attacked. Language is attributed which
was never used, or so Misquoted ftlid
garbled as to imparl n meaning never in
tended. A cause must indeed he des
perate when its vindication requires n
resort to means to despicable nnd wicked.
In your presence 1 can not reply by n
resort to like means and the use of such
weapons. I muko you, my old neighbors
who have known mo from youth up,
witnesses this day that because of my re
spect for you, both democrats and repub
licans, I can not reply as we are ultacKcil.
And why should I? Iqthis not the con-
tomiiill year? ami are Wo licit in tile
midst of tho memories of tho times when
the heroes and patriots of tho revolu
tion established tlto union, and declared
the constitution ? Arc we not in the
midst of great responsibilities that rest
somewhat upon every man’s shoulders?
When corruption iii overy department
of the public scrvico threatens Mm sta
bility ol our institutions may wo smite
truth in the face and woo InlschoiHl to
our embrace? When the "paralysis of
hard times" is felt everywhere, and all
men are looking Into tho future with
extreme anxiety, may wo dotty our obli
gations to society and Itecomo tho blind
followers of party ?
What is tho truth, and your duty and
mine, in respoct to the south? I but ro-
pent my letter of acceptance when I say
tliatall the [MOplo iniiHt he made to feel
and know that once moro there is estab
lished a purpose and a policy under
which all citizens, of every condition,
race and color, will 1k» secure in tho en
joyment of whatever rights tho constitu
tion and laws doclaro or recognize, and
that he is a dangerous enemy of his
count ry who would nnnbiaor, foster sec
tional antagonisms. Is it Indeed trim
that for full ton years'(ho republican
[tarty has boon enacting laws, Inis boon
expending great sums of money, and lias
been using the army to establish and
maintain control throughoutth? south,
and that yet strife ami liltMulshed pre
vail in some localities? Failure, cruel
failure, is stamped upon their policy,
in hut two states is there bloodshed ami
death between the races. In these states
alone, Louisiana and South Carolina, is
the republican party dominant. In
every other slate of the south the people
have recovered and restored the A mori-
right nnd jkiwoi- of self government,
and the negro race Ims ceased to Ik* the
tool of party, and pence and harmony
prevail,and prosperity is rapidly return
ing to all. Why not restore l/iuisiumi
and Hnuth Carolina to the blessings of
good government, that blacks and whites
alike and together may dwell under the
mild influence of pence nnd harmony?
As wist* men nnd patriotic citizens I ask
you tojtldgo whether it he right, or ex
pedient, or human, to continue tho men
in power who make political gain out of
scenes ol violence And bloodshed? Will
von follow the party banner stained with
human hloori, nnd the political battle-
cry. “A hltKidy-shirt and inonoy ?" Is
it not wiser anil hotter to trust a [tarty
whose fortunes are identified with the
supremacy of law and the triumphs of
pence? There is not one good man in
our whole country whose heart is not
made glad by tho assurance that once
more the Methodist Episcopal church is
to become one and undivided. Tho
Christian and patriotic gentlemen whoso
labors have brought that result about
met it the gratitude of the country, ns
they will receive the blessings of God.
That mighty church will no longer be
divided in America by geographical
lines, nor disturbed by sectional pas
sions, hut united, as tin* body of Ghrist,
will press forward in the work of man’s
elevation everywhere. In the address, a
week since, it in declared: "These
fraternized churches have no further
occasion for sectional disputes or acrim
onious diflerences." As the love of the
whole for all the parts has animated the
churches, nnd raised them nearer the
throne, so the same spirit will strengthen
our union of states, and will raise our
country into higher regions of patriotism
and ii[Kxn brighter fields of glory.
Now, my countrymen, I have to adc
your judgment touching the question
and measure of reform. What think
you, Is reform a necessity of our condi
tion ? Do we need reform in respect to
tho purity of the public service ; in re
spect to theuunilK-r and character of our
public officers, and in rcsjtcet to the
amount of money collected from the peo
ple, and the economy of its expendi
ture? I think I know your judgment
nnd feel the response of your hearts.
I now assume that, intelligently and
earnestly, you are in favor of reform ;
that you sincerely desire an improve
ment in the public service, so that it
shall Income purer, more efficient and
less expensive. The practical question
of these times is, how can theso results
he attained ?and how can each man con
tribute to their attainment? Ex
perience has taught us there is hut one
remedy, and that is a change of admin
istration. You may hold moss-meet
ings anti conventions, and declare your
wishes in resolutions, hut your com
plaints will go to the winds if you do
not give them force by the ballot, chang
ing men and politics. What other reli
ance have you ? Is it in the character
nnd promises of the candidate for presi
dont? hour years ago last 16th of April
Gen. < I rant approved a system of regula
tions for civil service reform. Me gave
nssurnneo, tho most solemn possible, thnt
political assessments hud been forbidden
within the various departments, and
Hint “ItHneMy niid cfncieflojr, not poli
tical activity, would determine the
tenure of office." That approval and
nssurnneo are found in an “ executive
order." Many of you trusted nnd ex
pressed your confidence bv voting for
Gen. Grant’s re-election. You thought
that with the aid of a board rif officers
ho could nml would remedy tho growing
evils. You trusted him because you
admired him as a great and successful
soldier. And you relied upon his per
sonal integrity nnd his iron will. Have
you been disappointed ? Political assess
ments, the most pernicious influence,
hnvo been ana are cnfbrccd with relent
less exaction. Collected ns a tax and
expended as a bribe, manhood, honor
and public virtue ar* all assailed. And
has that other nssurnneo ln’clt kept to
tho hope? Have “honesty and effi
ciency, and not political activity,’" do*
.torminori the tenure of office? ’ Again
the answer is found in investigations, ro-
[Htrts, indictments, verdicts and judg
ments. Whose fault is it that there has
been no reform, but on. the contrary that
the public service 1ms bobti tlrlflljlg from
had to worse? It Is not fair to olmriri* it
altogether upon Gen. Grant. That
charge springs from an unworthy motive
on the part of a class of republicans who
seek Gov. Hayes’ ebetion upon the
ground that ho can accomplish reforms
which Gen. Grant could not or would
not bring about. Upon this subject
Gov. Morton expressed tho following
opinion iu his Into spooch:
“ The administration of any president
will bo In tho main Wlmt flu* party
whieh elected him makes it. If ho
breaks away from Itla party, the chances
are that he will no broken down. In n
government of parties likeottts tho htasi-
dent must have his choice of officers.
The men to whom ho owes his election,
who have defonded him from assaults, to
whom ho must look for support in tho
future, will ordinarily control his action,
and he will do nothing offensive to them.”
In a larger degree that expresses tho
truth in respect to.Gen. Grant’s admin
istration. It is wlmt its party Ims made
it. And his party is what its loaders
have made It. Four years ago, in my
(Ipoitiflg Undress art it candidate for gov*
nor, 1 expressed my personal rospeot for
Gem Grant lit th* opinion tluit the poo-
plo had less cause to apprehend nu evil
policy from him than from tho malign
and poworful influences with which ho
would l»o surrounded. You all know
that the results have more than realized
my predictions. Civil scrvico reform is
now sneered at, and Iiiih ceased to he
even nprotonso. Wasteful expenditures
have continued, and official misconduct
has become widespread nnd alarming.
Surely the president can not ho relieved
of responsibility of so Hlmmeful a condi
tion of public (rffhlta, but yot tho admin-
intiiition is, iu the main, wlmt tho party
managers hnvo made it. Will it l>o
otherwise if that party elects tho suc
cessor? Do you find the ground of such
hope and expectation in tho candidate
himself? Do you claim that lie is a tier-
t of higher personal character than
n. Grant? And llml he will more
litinly keep his pledges to tho pcoplo?
Or do you think lie is a man of stnmgsr
will to slum! by his convictions nnd his
pledges? (Ion. Grant had foilr years of
civil experience when he pledged him-
sell and Ills administration to reform,
it he was not strong enough to
uve success in the midst of tno ad-
• influences which party and party
loaders brought him.
Ih the parly, with the machinery in
the hands of the well-known managers
and londers, better than Gen. Grant?
Does it show a disposition or ability for
reform ? A democratic house |of repre
sentatives has lifted the covering and tho
country is astounded and shocked at the
spectacle. You may judge of the tem
per of the party by tho manner in which
it receives the investigations, exposures
and proponed reforms. When you see
Uni newspapers and 1 -aders convulsed
with rage because crime is exposed anti
rimlnals are brought to punishment,
you know full well that a party under
such control can not restore public vir-
Again, you seek retrenchment in
public expenditures. (Jan you rea
sonably expect it from tho party in
power? Turn to the history of the past
eight months. A democratic house de
termined upon retrenchment, in every
hill appropriating money lltoy applied
the test the lowest sum possible cousin
tent with efficient administration. Un
less offices were abolished, extravagant
salaries reduced, and tinncccessary work
sponded or abandoned, and the result
nsa reduction of about forty million
dollars as the hills passed the house.
The retrenchment was resisted In the
senate and the opposition was carried to
the extreme of a threatened suspension
of the.public service. Ho determined
was the somite that upon many hills the
house was com [Killed to yield somewhat.
Tho result was a reduction of only thirty
millions in the appropriations, as they
finally passed. A reduction of thirty
millions at the first session is the reform
in economy with which the house re
turns to the people. Will you stand by
the house,/ir will you sustain the senate
and the administration? My fellow-
citizens, upon which side of this well-
defined line will yon stand ?
T have another inquiry to make of
you, tho answer to which will influence
your votes. Have you reason to confide
In and rely ujton the pledges of reform
made at Bt. I/mis? Tito pledges were
distinctly made ; not so in the ('incinnati
platform. There no reform, no retrench
ment was promised. The assurance that
the civil service should he purified, the
expenditures reduced, and useless offices
abolished, would have been a rebuke and
condemnation of the administration of
Gen. Grant. On the contrary, the Cin
cinnati platform declares the “national
administration merits commendation for
its honorable work iu the management
of domestic and foreign affairs. But
may you trust the pledges made at St.
I/mis? Who will he most likely to
abolish the thousands of useless offices?
In some instances they were created 1 or
party fuvorites, and in others they have
been continued after their occasion lias
ceased. They are now filled nnd their
emoluments enjoyed by men who con
tribute money and bestow their labor to
elect Gov. Hayes.
Gov. Tilrien will encourage no politi*
cal embarrassment in correcting (his
great evil. Not so with Gov. Hay
This reffirfft Acquires that thousands of
places of profit ho made vacant
filled hr his supporters. Tho present
house Is democratic. Him it not proved
itself true to every pledge given ? In its
investigations it has gone ns thoroughly
Into the work us was possible for men to
do who had Itoon excluded from tho re
cords and the departments for manv
yenht. In the reductions of expendi
tures and the abniithiu of Useless offices
it went as far as the persistent dp
of the senate would allow. Hi
occasion to ho offended with this Iroutty? 1
Has Us work not been in tho interest.pf,
the pcoplo? Was It not for vou-tlmt
useless offices were nltolisheri ; thnfc*$80^»
000,000 Were saved; and that the enor
mous corruption wits brought to light?
if this houso had not been democratic,
do Von not know that Gen. Belknap
would still l»o scctaUtrt of War? Bo
cause this house is of and for (ho people,
It Is denounced by over epithet that a
vicious political taste can command
Until tho present congress tho demo
crats have been a small minority for
many yenrs, and hnvo bce.n unable to
control tho record; hut in the house they
lift Vo Udw iiintlo n record, by no means as
full nnd complofd ltd It lltoy had con
trolled the fortunes of lltoir measures
elsewhere. You may not ngtao to many
things that wore said, and you may ho
dissatisfied thnt some measures were do-
liiyori and others lost iu the house, yet
tie you not chooso to go forward anil
complete the work well begun rather
than go hack to tho practices of preced
ing years? Would you vonluro to re
pent tho pnrty rule of tho [wist eight
years? Had $30,000,000 been saved
evuiff yea! during that period It may ho
that $ou would not now ho in tho con
tracting folds of hard limes. Do you
hesitate to trust Gov. Tilrien iu the. great
work of roform? Alono ho might Hot
nccompliKh complete success; hut he will
call around him those who Are without
embarrassment in his support* jblfis elec
tion will he without tho help And over
the opposition of those who are nml have
been making money out of publie em
ployment—without the help and over
tho opposition of all tho rings and com
binations against the treasury. For his
election ho will lw indebted to those who
Hln Corel y and earnestly dost re reform,
lie Krill thoroforo have their support in
carrying out his policy, Thus sur
rounded, can you trust him? You,
know that in such a work lie is both
zealous and cnnnblo. You know that
neither political or personal friendships
can stand in tho way of his efforts to
purify and cheapeniho public service.
In the city of New^v* ho ovoremno
and destroyed a ims# jtoworAil and cor
rupt combination. As governor of tho
state, succeeding Gen. i)ix. ho intro
duced notable reforms, and the taxes of
New York hnvo fallen frdm sixteen mil
lions to ciglit million dollars. No other
citizen can bring such evidence of hi*
ability nml zeal to accomplish wlmt the
people now so much destr6. That fact
gave him the nomination, ami tho con
viction of thnt fact on tho part of the
people will elect 1dm president. All the
corrupt influences ol the country nro
against him. Falsehood and detraction
will do their work, night and day, but
tho people will stand by the champion of
their callse,
Aro you quite sure that theso hard
times wore inevitable? If not, then
there is a great responsibility somowhero.
Our pcoplo aro intelligent, industrious
nnd enterprising. Wo have great and
constantly Incronsing sources of wealth.
New mines nro awaiting development
nnd new lands tiro constantly coming
into cultivation. Why, then, does cap
ital shrink from investment? Why is
lulior without employment? Homo
answer should l»c given by those who de
mand yet longer to control public affairs
and to fix our policies. If no answer be
given, or if the answer Ik* tin insult to
their intelligence, the pcoplo will wisely
resolve upon a change. When the la
borer of the north asks why lie can get
no work, lie will not he satisfied with
the answer that there was bloodshed nt
Hamburg; that there was n bloody riot
at Newark, Now Jersey, or thnt a man
was driven from his house in Mitchell.
Indiana, by a hand of armed men and
wounded. In such a ease as ours the
tmly remedy of Mte people is in a change,
it can not ho worse—it will Ik* bettor in
many respects, it may l>o heller in
overy respect.
Retrenchment in public ox|K*nditurcH
vill surely relieve tlie industries of the
lonntry of a portion of their burdens,
ami the adoption of a system of economy,
and of wiser finance will restore better
times.
Where may capital look for Invest
ment nnd labor for employment In this
country? Gan it bo to the lenders
whose administration stands condemned,
and under whose measures disaster lias
come upon all our interests? When the
change lias taken place ami the |K*nplc
shall have placed in power an adminis
tration pledged to radical reform;
pledged to a restoration of par value of
tho currency without artificial contrac
tion, by public economies, by official re
trenchments and wise finance; .and
pledged also to administrative policies
and measures for the benefit of all the
people, and not for tho lwnefit of a class
or a party, hope will revive; and confi
dence lie restored, and wo will ox
[lericnce the blessings of a returning
prosperity. *
I speak to you to-day in that cause.
F speak to you to-day in your own cause.
I have no wounds in the past. I have
iKirne my share of the resjKinsihility of
success, of defeat and disaster with you
men of fihelby county. I stand to-day
with you in favor of what I believe to
Ikj your cause and the cause of the peo
ple. Will the people net together?
Will they act to build tip nn aristocracy
in this country, or will they act to lay
the foundation of an ond uring prosperity?
God intends that wc should lie a pros
perous pcoplo, an<l If we do not stand in
the way of our own success it will come.
I hud intended to make sonic reply to a
very villainous speech made by Gov.
Morton at I/)banoii, hut I have been in
duced to occupy ipore time on the sub
jects I hnvo spoken noon than I intended.
[ Voices of “go on!”] He has a hold
upon power for the present, but it will
Ikj taken from him by the people at the
next opportunity. He will pass away as
I will, and as we will all pass away, In.t
the principles wo contend for will endure
forever. [Great applause.] Gov. Til-
den. in his letter of acceptance, says
more in a singlo sentence than nil tho
speeches (hat Morton lias ever made, and
that sentence is this: “Governments,
like tho people, must live within their
incomes.” [Cheers nnd cries of “that’s
With a view to prejudicing the
people nt Lebanon when 1 was not pres
ent, Gov. Morton told them, ns reported
in tho pit])ern, that I was in sympathy
with a trcnKonnhlo organization, under
standing their motives and their pur
poses during tho war. [A voice; "(t is
a 1W» LftUglitcr and applause.] I am
•muon obliged to my friends for furnish-
ing’the only nnswor that cun ho given to
It is a lie. [Great npplauso.l
’ ■ There is one resolution in the platform
adopted at Chicago, in 1864. thnt hns
Ik*oii tho subject of great misconstruc
tion. it hns been construed to show
thnt tho war, up to that time, had boon
a failure. I don’t think it properly licnrs
that construction: but it is a thing of
the past, which I shall not discuss to-day.
Morton told them yesterday that Gov.
Tildon nnd I wore both members of tlmt
convention, nnd both In favor of the reso
lution. Gov.’Tildcn’s frionds who were
tho committee on renolutionH, in
formed tho country long igo that in the
committee which decided that ho op
posed the resolution, and eo far as I ntn
concerned it is simply n lie made nut of
wholo cloth, for I was not a membor of
the convention nt all. [Great cheering,]
Wlmt do you think of such leadership?
you proud republicans, you men who
would rather sustain tho truth than
liilHchood. Will you follow It? Hnvo
wo been growing prosperous in tho direc
tion you would like? and don’t you
think wo had bettor change now ? God
will bless us. God blesses all changes
for tho right, if wo will return to tho
principles of economy In cxjiendlluro,
dispensing with unnecessary sino-cures
rl apply tho public money for tho pub
lic g09fl. (‘Cheers.]
FACTS AM) FANCIES.
It is sad U» sea a man who has waded
through goro to rcscuo his country from
tho grasp of tlto tyrant, so subdued after
marriago that oven tho flics tnko ndvan
tage ofhim.
Aitkauanokh are deceitful. At
camp-meeting it is difficult to tell from
tho background whether tho man on tho
front scut Ih shouting glory or has just
sat down on a lack.
I n ten years tho screw propeller has
entirely replaced tho paddle in transat
lantic navigation, tho weight of marine
engines has diminished one-half, the
steam pressure has quadrupled, and tho
consumption of coal has decreased two-
thirds.
Ancient Biionze.—According to a
German analyst tho composition of an
old bronzd weapon, supposed to ho about
two thousand years old, lias boon ascer
tained to ho ninety parts cofipor and ten
[(arts tin, proving that tin was known to
the ancients.
There is n man in Nownrk ho closo
that when ho attends church ho occupies
tho now farthest from tho pulpit, to Have
tlto interest on his money while tho col
lectors aro passing tho plate for contribu
tions.
Whittier sent litis little verso to an
autograph collector'll! England:
Tblck«r tlinfl water In chip rill,
Through roll I mien of story,
OurHnxon hloml Ims llowol, nml still
Wn slmro with yon tho good nml III,
Thn shadow nnd I lie glory.
A SCIENTIFIC writer says overy infim
cnifwty "no” several months before it can
say "yes.” An old bachelor who has
1(0011 rejected seventeen times says this
habit of saying “no” before site can say
"yes” dings to tho female infant until
after site incomes twenty-seven years of
ago.
ifpr von her Burden,onco a Prussian
official, 1ms received the first formal per
mission for flro burial. Tho bodies of
his two children are to Ik* subjected to
incremnlion nnd tho ashes Ikj sent to
their parents. Tho question of crema
tion is said to have made decided pro-
•ess among tho educated classes of
ermany.
A woman In Council Bluffs, Iowa,hits
sold out iter husband for a hrindle cow,
calf, and $20 to hoot. A former wife,
from whom he had Ikjou twice divorced,
coaxed him to return to his allegiance,
and tho second wife, actuated by a spirit
of accommodation nnd agricultural enter
prise, consented to n separation for the
consideration named.
The motto for tho week on a little
girl’s Hunday-school card was, “Get thee
behind me, Halim.” There wero goose
berries in the garden, but she wns for
bidden to pluck them. Pluck them sho
. “ Why didn’t you,” asked her
mother, “when you wero tempted to
touch them, say, 1 Get theo behind me,
Huton ?’ ” " I ’did,” she said, earnestly,
“and he got l>chinri me, and pushed mo
into the hush."
The time-honored custom which Gor
in students have of HWiulcling them
selves up until they arc invulnerable to
any tiling less than a shot from a Krupn
gun, and then trying to scratch each
other’s noses with sword points, is show
ing signs of falling into disrepute. At
Darmstadt, one of the so-called duels
having taken place, the government of
the university expelled one of the com
batants, suspended the other, together
with the seconds, and broke up tho so
ciety of which the warriors wero mem
bers.
Or Rufus Choate’s wit a volume
might lie compiled. Of a party in suit
he said: “ Why doesn't he pay back
tho money he bus ill got ? He is so
much of a villain that he. wouldn’t if he
could, and so much of a bankrupt that
he con 1<1 n’t if he would.” Of a very
crooked (light of stairs he snjd, “ How
drunk must u man bo to climb thoso
stairs!” Of one of his female clients ho
" Him Ih ii Biniior— no, not n ninner,
I'.ir «lm i» our dlimt; but »he iH a dn-
uirrcoublo Hitint!” Jlo defined tbc Inw-
ver'H “vacation” as “the space between
the question put to u witness nnd bis an-
*wer." Of the homely chief-justice
Mluiw, “I vonornto him as the Indian
does his leg, curiously carved; I ac
knowledge tluitjhe is ugly, but I feel that
lie is grout.” Of the constable who re
peated the word “having” many times
in his return, “He has grently over
worked the principle.”
