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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.”