The Cedartown record. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1874-1879, November 03, 1876, Image 1
CEDARTOWN RECORD.
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CEDARTOWN^ GEORGIA, FRIDAyJ NOVEMBER 3, IS7G.
VOL III. NO. 20.
timely topics.
A prominent Now York woman elair-
'oymit, who toil* “all secrets,” and
“ reveals the nblding jdaoo .ol aliment
friend*,” fi.r $1, invariably in advance,
lo^L her own daughter a few days since,
and immediately went weeping and Ed
ging to the police department, asking
that sin* might he found.
I'nr. leading citizen* of Philadelphia
if' very much enraged over the refusal
ol the board of Park commissioners to
allow the main exhibition building to lie
retained permanently upon the eenten-
LATEST NEWS.
grounds,
Philadelphians, who
to raise half a million
the building. The i
the commissioner* ii
not known.
projected by the
* to purchase
controlling
s anKin mean* to keep right on sing-
i",' 1 ho Ninety and Nine.” lie pre-
Ifod it in Chicago with the following
s'ory: ” Ihrec weeks ago we were hold*
ii'c Home meetings at NortlifUdd, Ma
and after the service a gentleman said
with deep emotion: 4 When you’
hero last year I did not believe it
ligion, ami would not go to your n
ings. Mitt one evening, when the church
was too small to hold the people, the
meeting was held in the open air. I was
silting under the porch or my home, and
a line of that song was wafted Jo me on
IhoHtill air of the evening: - u Rejoice!
f"i the l»rd brings back bis own." I
b*gan to feel the force of the truth that
the (food Shepherd was looking after me,
and now I, with my family, belong to
Ibis church.’ ”
El m
■ tells ho
African
woman made jiottery. First she pounded
enough earth and water for one pot, with
a pestle such as they use in heating corn,
till it formed a jierfcctly homogeneous
mass. She then put it either on a flat
stone or on the bottom of another, and
giving it a dab with her fist in the mid
dle, to form a hollow, worked it into a
*ha|>e roughly with her baud*, keeping
them constantly wet, and then smoothed
out the linger-marks with a corn cob, and
linally |K)lit*hcd it over with one or two
bit* of gourd and a hit of flat wood—the
l»it of gourd giving it the proper curves; j
and finally ornamenting it with a sharp-
l*ointcd stick. It took forty-five min
utes, and then it was put away to dry
four or five hours in a shady place. The
shapes of many are very graceful, and all
are wonderfully truly formed, like the
amphora in the Villa 1 Monied, at r
|K‘I
The James and Younger Urol her*.
The remarkable career of the Missouri
r °bber band, the leading spirit.* of which
were the James and Younger brothers,
forms one of the most singular chapters
in the. annals of modern crime. Num-
Is ting originally about twonty men, for
eight years it has baffled the keenest de
tective talent in the land. The exploit*
which have given them notoriety have
been on the most extensive scale and of
fbe most audacious character. Their
tactics have invariably been a rapid
da-li upon tho bank or railroad train,
where their lsv>ty lay, half of them
making *ure of the plunder, while the
remainder, by riding up and down firing
revolvers, created a panic amongst any
bystander* or travelers who would lie
likely to interfere with their nefarious
enterprises. The secret of their success
lay in their knowledge of tho southwest
ern country, and their isolation from all
Imt known friends or old war comrades.
The mainjjerror of the detectives lay in
attributing their crimes entirely to the
Jameses and Youngers, and ignoring the
fact that the gang was of much larger
proportions.
Their career commenced in 18(5*, when
a bank at Russellville, Ky , was robbed.
Tb“ following year a similar criminal
exploit was committed at (inliatin, Mis
souri. In 1870, seven of them carried
off tie- day’s receipts of the Kansas City
px|*>vtion in the presence of 50,000 peo
ple. Marik* at t'oryden, Iowa, Col it in-
Mrs. Vant’ott is stirring up sinner
in Tcxiu.
Six Savannah i*oliecmen have died o
the fever.
Darien, Ga., want* a physician. I'n
common want.
Judge Shacfor of Salt Lake, decides
that Brigham must pay Ann Eliza that little
amount of uliimniy.
A lute Charleston circular puts tho
present rioo crop of Georgia and
olinn nt 7 A,.'*00 tierces, or afloat tii
than any crop since the war
o Corpus Christi ( lex.) (ia/.otte
keeps up Its fire upon the regular
bull-fight* just outside the town limits, hut
the hulls continue to sprinkle dirt on their
bark*, and gore <
Deaths from yellow fever in Savannah
alone, from •September I to October II
seven hundred und twenty-six, an average of
eighteen perdny. It is estimated that the
population has been reduced by refugees
about 8,000.
A correspondent of the Florida Agri
culturist urges the owucrH of groves in dr-
anew county to pay more attention to pine
apple culture. l'nllko the orange, the
rooted plants come into bearing in a vear
und a profitable crop can always bo grown
between the young orange trees.
Corpus Christi (Tex.) Gazette: An
enterprising Mexican of this place recently
conceived a new plan for obtaining a liveli
hood. It is nothing more than peddling of
live meat front door to door through the city.
Young kids nre driven in n flock and sold to
customers at their doors for the modorate
sum of thirty-seven and a half Cents each.
Norfolk Virginian: It is rumored
that the colonization society is preparing to
send out to Liberia from thirty to fifty col
ored emigrants next month. The sseretnry
at Washington City is now in correspondence
with Messrs. B. »fc J. Backer A Co" with a
of securing their passage on the hnrk
e Resolution, which is to sail for Cape
Mnlmns, Africa, nt nil early period.
Richmond Whig: For the week end
ing Saturday the shipments of flour from
Richmond to foreign ports aggregate n,!>37
re Is, valued nt $*U,7V'.7fi. Tho niiinhcr
mrrcls exported tho previous week was
7, showing an execs* of 1,2*0 barrels for
week ending the fourteenth lust. With
exception of one cargo of 2,-1(17 barrels,
nd for HL Johns, Newfoundland, nil the
uhovu mentioned are hound to Brazilian
ports.
Norfolk Landmark: iWenger*on the
“Valley Railroad” are attracted daily by the
conduct of a large «ad intelligent dog wiiilifi
AN IMPARTIAL VIEW.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., on tho
Two Presidential Candidates
Governor /l'lldon tho Foremost
former of tho Time.
Hay os tho Oroaturo of Oamoroti, Olmud-
ler and tho Gang.
°ni no Article liy Charles Frniinls Arinin* Jr.,
Just bo fore tho lirat mooting intended
having a hom ing on tho presidential
nomination* (ortho campaign, now going
ii wore hold, Mr. W. M. F.varts one
ny remarked to Carl Hcluirz that the re
publican party in its tlion condition re
minded him of nothing ho much ns an
• whoso tenu of enlistment had ex
pired. Mr. F.varts is justly famed for
the witty and incisive way in which ho
xpresses what other people think, but
ho has not often had tho good fortune to
hit off a happier smile than this. It in-
eluded in ten words a phnmphlcLftil of
political insight, and accounted at onco
for that large amount of individual ac
tion, which is such an essential feature
the present canvass. The field is full
of stragglers.
So far as the niomcntoiiHpolitical issues
ol twenty years ago aro concerned, little
remains over which to struggle. During
■ present canvass-issucs, sido-issm*
I after-issues will, indeed, l>o nuinu
factored out of it ; somotimes by very
•st and very dull men who, having
1 learned to talk on a certain subjee
• no faculty of speech on any oihe
sometimes by very cunning and ii
pulpits men. who will work on tl
passions and the old hatreds as long
hoy etui possibly hone to got them
es into office, or to Keep themselves
there by so doing. In all fltis, howover,
is something very uninviting and
repulsive to men who look upon
politics as anything more than an occu
pation, and upon office holding as any
thing more than a means of support.
Tho continued dwelling upon the last
phai " ' * *'
that being unknown and untried they payinont of the rebel war dohts, tho pen
have no record to defend. F,very voter’ sinning of confederate officers and sol
is thus left •free to imagine wiiat he Idler*, and numerous other visions of
pleases, and, of course, onuie i(/no(uit, etc, {terror aro conjured up. With an nrgu
in such a matter ns this it U Ih>m per- niont of this character it is almost humi
haps to try to see ourselves aji we would | Hating to bo called upon to deal. Again,
others, and as others nmstjseous.
practical mon, priding onrsewes on
capacity for self-government, what would
we Americans say if we saw, thr instance,
the liberal party of England on ^ defeat
by the readable for the daily iiuwiipngrr,
which was formerly thrown to him from the
baglOtgc ear for Ills master, who lived half a
mile from tlie rails. The master lias
dead many mouth*, bin the faithful doir inis
not missed the mail train a day aiuee. 'I
Kc man, in |»
i him ns the l
lull NOIII
r the do;
slies by,
which he eagerly seizes und starts joyfully
over the hills for home. When the train
rushes by and no paper Is thrown he rushes
wildly up and down the track, enzing after
the ears with nil almost human look <,f dis
appointment, ond jogs dojcctly homeward.
A dispatch from the camp on Am
phibious creek, Black Hills, October 1.1th,
via Fort Diramie, October filth, says; Gen
eral Meritt, with all the. best horses in the
Fifth cavalry, left here this morning, taking
sixty selected men from the Second and one.
hundred and twenty from the Third cavalry,
ten days rations and one hundred and filly
round* of carbine and twelve pounds of pis
tol ammunition per man, en route for the
forkofthe Cheyenne river, where, a large
hand of Indians, led by < raey Horse and
other hostile*, are reported in winter camp.
The troops arc in three detachments, oflicered
liy Captain Beale and IJcutenat Hail, Cap
tains Monnahmi and Von Vheist and Lieu
tenants King and Snead. No wagons were
taken, and the rations arc carried by pack
mules. The four hundred fresh hones
hich reached here day heforo yesterday with
recruit* for the Fifth cavalry, will he used
ninting the old soldiers of this regi
iconipany General Me:
rmuauN.
Eastern newspaper correspondent* nay
that the Turkish note offering six mouths nr-
mistier is conciliatory,imhmissiveand almost
huinhlc.
then robbed. fu 1H7R, a train on the Toronto telegram stale* that Jamc*
Rock Island A Pacific road was wrecked. Ryan, a mcichant of Petcrhoro, worth five
After a visit to Texas thny returned und hundred thousand dollars, is to he hanged
the .St. Louis <V Iron on the twenty-first for the murder ofhis wife
Thirtv thou and dol- on the eighth inst
old dust was next taken Th( . k|nf , of ( j' lct ,
roblsul a train
Mountain roa<
lan»' worth of
from the Kansas Pacific train nt Muncie,
Kan., the same program mo of fiiglit to
western Missouri being pursued in every
instance with entire success until the
late North field affair. The total amount I
stolen by the band i* about a quarter ofj
a million dollars. Many of them have Ca
l>een killed in the various affraya with Gcorj
pursuers in which they have been on- i;. A.
gaged in from time to time, until only I York
Frank and Jesse Jame* and two other
now remain alive and at large.
ce feel* constrained t
y on a war footing in view of th
b of afinirs in Turkey.
(T.KARIM. S T It LI. I - Ol -NOW. - A
machine for melting snow in cities,
which often forms a source of much an
noyance and obstruction to traffic during
the winter months, have been invented
by John Mullaly and John T. Hawkins,
of New York. It i* claimed that the
proc -s has been brought to perfection.
Sup- r-heated steam is employed for the
purpose, and by a simple contrivance the
steam at the same time creates a draught
in the furnace which increases the heat.
< )ne snow-melter is said to be capable of (
clearing off from one to fifteen milt? of
street in twenty-four hours. The invent
ors e-timate the cost at from one-fifth to
one-tenth the expense of the present sys
tem of carting the snow away, and have
mad. a proposition for undertaking ilie
work to tlfe street cleaning depart
ment of New York.
let midshipmen NY. N. King, of
:ia; T. B. Parsons, of Massachusetts;
Scott,of Indiana; J. F. Lciby, of New
and W. NY. Russell of Maryland, have
been dismissed from tho naval academy at
Annapolis, Maryland, for refusing to tell who
Imzed the “ plebs.”
A Washington dispatch way* the pre
sentation of theaddres* from Ireland through
Messrs O'Conner, Power and Parnell, mem
bers of parliament, has been deferred through
etiquette. Resolutions will Jmve to come
through the British minister here and the
state department to the president. An obstacle
lias been found to the success of the first
step in the wording of certain parts of the
resolutions. One part recites that having
suffered through seven centuries of tyranny,
the Irish people make their greeting to the
(1 .States and its president. This can
not, it is contended, lie passed by without an
act of disrespect on the part of president
Grant to her majesty’s representative. The
resolutions are magnificent evidences of art
an-.! t.vte, appearing like a plate of the pur
est alabaht. r i*. laM with mosaic. They nre
left in one of the rooms of the White House
that tho number of those who act inde
pendently of all party affiliation* is con
tinually increasing. The wonder rather
is that the majority still cling to these
rut*.
Jn considering tho question* of the day
it is well in the first place to try to get a
perfectly dear perception of tho issttcB
involved in the campaign. That lie may
do thi* it is absolutely necessary for an
intelligent being to close Ida ear* to the
discussion generally carried on. In that,
words supply to an altogether inordinate
degree the place of'idea*. Of the three
elements, therefore, in which every cam
paign discussion may he dee imposed-
rubbish, formalities and essence—it i*
here proposed to dovnlo Very few word*
except to the last. Under the head of
campaign rubbish may, in the present
case, safuly be classed all the rambling
discussions of the war records of the
several candidate*, and their opinion*
prior to the rebellion or the Mexican
war; also.tho r charge* and counter-char
ge* made*n* their transactions in mules,
their stealing railruads, pi undering widow*
and orphans, "dodging” taxes, issuing
"shitiplastcr” currency, the number of
watches they own, and the date at which
they may have purchased piano*. I’er-
Honally all the candidate* are respectable
gentlemen. They have passed their
livas before the <•011111111111110* in which
they live, and been honored and trusted,
A* to the view* they may have enter
tained twenty year* ago, it is to he re-
inhered the war of the rebellion closed
the year 18li. r i. The issue* at stake
between the years 18-18 and 18(50 are now
just as much settled beyond the pcrad-
venture of reversal a-; those involved in
the war of 1812 or the revolution. The
record* of Guv. Hayes and Gov. Tildon
anterior to 18(51 have, therefore, senti-
nt part, just about a* much 1 tearing
the lining issues of this campaign as
ir opinions on the Hartford conven
tion or the Darwinian theory of evolu
tion. No one can deny that tho mam of
trash and rubbish of this description- -
constituting, a* it doe*, nine-tenth* of
the campaign literature—lias its in
fluence. Unhappily, mud-flinging i* to
ry large class of mankind one of the
most enjoyable feature- of every canvass;
and, as there are said to he Herman
:oiintics in Pennsylvania, where votes
ire regularly at each election cast for
Jen. Jackson, so a not inconsiderable
portion of the community now does, and
for the next five years will, measure
every.candidate, not by hi* acts of the
flay, but by what he said and thought in
18(50, or did or did not do during the re
bellion.
There are three great phases into
'tie’ll all political movement resolve*
•elf—the revolutionary, the construc-
vc, and the administrative, and these
three also iiecessarilyisuccccd each other
he order in which they have been
named. Within the hist sixteen years it
* apparent that this country has passed
through two, and the more momentuous
o, of these phases, and is now entering
ujs»n the third. Tho*period between
18(51 and 1.865 was one of unquestioned
revolution : that since 18(55 has boon one
of construction, which, well or ill done,
will ,be complete a* soon as .South Caro-
and Louisiana are permitted to
reach the jK>.sition of rcstJoward which
they are irrcsistably lending That time
not long be deferred. T-
IE ADVANTAGE OB TUB DRMOCHATH.
t i* hardly better worth while to
waste time over empty political formali
ties than over unadulterated rubbish.
Passing on, then, to the essence of the
campaign, the candidates are first to be
considered.
In this respect unquestionably the
prima facia advantage i* with the demo
crats. If there is one thing wholly op
posed to the spirit of our institution* and
the earlier and better usages of tliecoun*
„ t is the political trick of nominating
unknown and untried men,on the ground
of the Disraeli ministonind a dissolution
of parliament, select a* (heir cindidate?
for premier, not Gladstone, nm AsHter,
not tiny well known or exMWonced
leader, but some unknown, unfried lord
lieutenant of Canada, who had- been
colonel in the Sepoy insurrection, and a
audit monitor during one short parlia
ment ? In tho days of Washington and
Jefferson and Madison we should have
smiled, not without just prldo, and re
marked that republicans I hough we
, we at least did not make a farce of
government. Yet thi* i* exactly
what was done by tlm republican party
iu the case of (lovornor I laves. Of that
gentleman all that is known Is from hi*
(lit ; lie seem* to have been a gallant
1 meritorious otlieer during thewar;
a faithful though uuiufliiontiul member
of congress after it* closo ; and more re
nt ly a respectable, though not brilliant,
governor of Ohio. Since his nomination
the verdict of those input intimately ac-
Ijiaiiited with him ha* boon decidedly in
hi* favor,und they lmvojoiuod iu warmly
recommending him for the presidency.
All this, however, ill supplies the place
public service. To fill the [presiden
tial chair with success a malt must have
great deal more than tlioso good pur
poses, fair talents, ami high character
which serve to make him locally respec
table. I le must have judgment,firmness,
insight, and, above all, experience iu a
much more than ordinary degree; and
that 1h< ha* these is only shown by trial.
Even the most euthiisia.stiosupporters of
Air. I Inyo* can hardly, ns yet, claim that
hia election would lx* anything more
than a political experiment. It i* diffi
cult, tliorofore, to see why Governor
Hayes does not fall within that class of
iiludidalCH who were so well pictured
As [ tho existence and obstructive power of
’an organized opposition, thi* time con
trolling tho icnnte, I* ignored ; and that
too, by the leader* of a party which, '
complete control of the government
It* every dopnrtihont, through hIx years
out of eight, piteously claims that it*
utter failure during all that timo to ftil
fill any of its pledge* was duo to the
nresonco of a contemptible minority
Experience 1*, however, after all, the
host of guide*, and experience Is not
without It* lights on thiH subject. The
"ins” always do, and always have,
unanimously averred, with a fervor
which can only spring from hoart-foit
conviction, that the incoming of tlm
“outs” will he shortly followed by the
final crack of doom. A good* many cred
ulous people, from force of habit chiefly,
can always he relied on, also, timorously
to accept this view of the subject. Two
years ago it was nervously argued by II10
party leadcrf, in tho same spirit/that
;ho country could not he so rich a* to
(•loot a democratic house ol representa
tives to trust, etc., etc. Yet, looking
r tho field and judging by the reconi,
truly independent voter could prob
ably now be found who would not admit
that the existence of an opposition
majority iu one branch of congress has
bet n, during the last year, a piece of
national goodjlortuno; and, also, that tlto
record of that opposition body will, as a
whole, compare more than favorably
with the records of either the republican
senate or tlm republican executive
TUB END roll REFORMKIIH.
idopted by the Fitli Av
•nee, a* candidates whom In-
could not support;
tlm addre
hotel conic
dependent
men " who, however, favorably judged
by their nearest friends, are not publicly
known to possess those qualities of mind
and character which the stern task of
genuino reform requires; for tho Ameri
can people can not iilfhrd to risk tlm
future ol the republic in experiments on
merely supposed virture or rumored
ability to lie trusted on tho strength of
private recommendations.
TUI El) MEN AND TRUE.
Tlm democrats, on tho other hand,
whatever maybe thought, of tlm men,
unquestionably have put in nomination
candidate* both of whom were among
their most pmminent party leaders—
men with whom mid whose record the
whole country was thoroughly familiar.
I'lmt on certain cHKontial issue*, and
especially that of the currency, these
two leaders were at. variance, i* indis
putable, but this merely proved that,
they wore party leaders, and nil who
considered such variance a good ground
fin refusing to support the ticket hud
full notice of tlm fact and could shapo
their course accordingly. Good or bad,
the candidates were tried men, and the
whole country knew how to measure
them; the appeal was to facts, not to
fancy; to flic record, not the imagination.
And this i* the only sound practice. Ini., „ ,,
so far, therefore, the democratic party ] koulheni Itepiidialioii a ( onscqiicncc
him,, thin t-iiinpiiigii ujiproriclicU iiilioli of H«|.iil>llcnn
more nearly than its opponents to a cor- v , , „
reel usage ; it* rceord may lie bad other-1 ,)W 01 '
wise, but it Iiiih at least nominated the I Tlm war ended more t han eleven year*
most distinguished reformers it its ranks, j since. Tlm whole of the debts ol the
A thorough and correct appreciation I southern state* contracted during the
The single great end to which all re
formers, whatever their theories may be,
must look i* distinct enough; it is to
overcome the tondcncy of our political
system to corruption. All political
systems, no doubt, have some tendency,
greater or less, toward corruption. Tlm
uliarity of our* is that it moves, and
fifteen years has moved, in that
direction with accelerated fmeo, and it
1m* now arrived at a point where even
the blindest patriots see that, unless tho
ovil i* checked,our political system must
break down, and some now experiment
must he substituted in it* place. The
ground, therefore, and the only ground
on which all honest men can unite, and
insist with one voice upon reform, is
that of resistance to the corruption of
r political system.
Ml these measures ol reform, necessary
they are, attack merely the outposts
of corruption. They would, if successful,
considerably reduce the resources of the
political organization; hut when it is
considered how infinite the ramifications
of the
inary t
sources arc constantly developed, it is
ridiculous to suppose that these metis-
nre*, even if adopted to their utmost
extent, would offer any permanent, cure
for the radical evils of our political sys
tem.
No serious impression can ever he
made on those evil* until they are
attacked at their source.; not until tho
nation is ready to go hack to tho early
practice of the government, and to restore
to the constitutional organs those powers
which have been torn from them by the
party organization for purposes of party
aggrandizement.
WHAT IS (GIANTISM.
r llio Oilluiia, Cot-nipt
(tuition
mill l)li|i-ni , rl'nl
n speech ol Gov. (.'linn. 8. May, of Mhh'ijnn,
at Clovclnnri.
Citizens—What is Grnntism--
wortl in our polities? It Isa
Fell.
this 111 t
word of baleful import—a word
shame, a word of national humiliation.
It is a word that means under this ad
ministration overy department of
government has been disgraced and dis
honored. l)o 1 speak too strongly?
l'Ook at t he record—-tho plain but damn
ing rooord which all mon know. 1 said
disgraced every department. Was I not
right? What one ha* escaped ? Tin
state department, tho great foreign de
partment of tho government, has beot.
disgraced under ibis administration by
t he displacement of Charles Sumnor and
the elevation of Simon Cameron; by
the appointment and retention of puli
lie swindlers a* the representatives <>
our country nt foreign courts; by
wasteful and criminal extravagance, in
robbing tho treasury for tho benflilof
the camp followers of the party.
The treasury, that great department
organized by tho genius of Alexander
Hamilton, and once presided over by
statesmen like Albert Gallatin and Unit
great son of Ohio in the war times, Sal
mon I*. Chase, has been dishonored and
llsgraeed by HoutwoU and Richardson.
Tho navy, first organized by the true
patriot, George Cabot, under Washing
ton, and in nioro recent times adorned
the administration of Folk by the
11 instances mid 1111 accurate ad
justment of mean* to end i* generally
looked ii|hiii a* a find essential to human
success. Don Quixoto'performed, per
haps, u very gallant feat of arms when he
ran a tilt with the windmill; but lie
camo out of the tournament badly
damaged none the less. It is surely to
he supposed t.liaL Governor lluyes appre
ciate* the fact that, if he is elected presi
dent of the Unitcil States, his power as
such will l>c limited, and his administra
tion can he saved from lamcfilahlc and
uLtni failure 'only through the hearty
and united support of some organized
party. No president in this country can
carry on an adininistation to suit him
self on sentimental or guerrilla or Islimac-
lite principles. He has got to have a
party Isdiind him, or fall. Not only
this. Common sense, as well rs political
usage and party courtesy,always dictates
to the president elect who are to he hi*
confidential advisers and whom he can
look to for effective support. Theso are,
in the fir t place, his unsuccessful com
petitor* in the nominating convention ;
and, in the second place, those who
brought about this nomination und sub
sequent election. Not only doe* thi*
usage exist in our political system, but
it i* a sound one. Through it alone can
responsible, in place of personal, admin
istration be secured. President Grant,
looking iijsm bis cabinet a* a sort of
civil staff, ignored the usage, picking up
his heads of departments as he met men
ho fancied in the cats, at dinner tables,
or in the dllb-room*; and the result be
came known as "Grnntisni.” Lincoln
always recognized it, and it saved hi*
administration. 111 the early day- of the
republic no president thought of dis
regarding it. In the ease of Governor
yaves, who are the advisers thus desig
nated to him in advance? Hi* chief
competitor in the convention was .Mr.
iilainc; his rival* who secured hi* nomin
ation over Secretary Bristow were Messrs,
Morton and Conkling. .Senator Sher
man, Jrom Ohio, fir*L named him promi-
ncntlynHH candidate; ^Secretary Cameron
manipulated the Pennsylvania delega- negroes a
lion in hi* favor at the decisive moment; ! power the men who have created these
and Secretary Chandler is the head of debts, and repudiation will assuredly
the national executive committee which ! follow. Put an end t.f that delusion,
i* organizing the campaign for his elec- and enable their legislative bodies onco
Under these circumstances how is I more to be filled by honest
and for its purposes have been
out by an amendment of the constitu
tion of the llnitcdiStatoH. The debts of
nine of those states, created since they
camo under republican control, amount
to more than * 150,000,000; how much
more it is impossible lossy, because no
one can tell what the debts of North and
HotiLh Uiirolina are. For this erroneous
mow of debt t here i* substantially noth
ing whatever to show. The money has
been squandered, stolen, and carried off;
and at this moment tho stales of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Ixmiainnii,Mississippi,
North Carolina, Kouth Carolina, Ten
nessee and Virginia are unable to pay
tlie interest on their bonds.
Ono hundred and fifty millions is a
huge amount of plunder to bo obtained
out, of the use of Inn publieereditof those
nine states; and it has all boon obtained
by men who have had the public credit
of those states put within tucir reach by
the pretence that the republican
party is the party of freedom,
and that it* political suprem
acy is established to the safety of tho ne
groes. There is no fraud in the whole
history of fraudulent pretences that can
show $150,000,000 of plunder obtained
by tho simple swindling of an ignorant
lieasantry, suddenly endowed with a
right of suffrage, making them the un
conscious tools of a great public robbery.
The simple truth is that if tho carpet
bag governments are not overthrown,
the public debt of these states can never
bo paid. What system of taxation,
what system of economy, can he looked
for from the republican party, that will
put their bonds into good credit in tho
money centers of any portion of Christen
dom ? These state* could not borrow
a dollar anywhere in the world, could
not fund their debts upon any basis of
agreement with their creditors, unless
the result of this election shall -how that
the virtuous and intelligent among their
citizen* have it in their power to con
trol the course of legislation and the
executive conduct of their governments.
Keep up the cry that the rights of’the
langor, and by it continue
President Have* to form a cabinet
sympathy with his views as respects
civil Her vice ?
■: OPPOSITION RECORD
It i
usually argued that it will not he
afe to trust thedemoeratieparty in office,
y«" for Lhn brictl icriu ol four year*, in ! I Iu, repiibliami party oOlin wlioia
:cw of the possible mischief it might! has encouraged the delusion which has
accomplish in that time. The deprive ’ made this wholesale plunder of Hie south
tion oi the black* of all civil right-, the | a possible and an easy villainy.
xccutivo offices once more to he
in the hands of reputable citizens, and
their natural re*ources will soon enable
them, with u proper system of public
economy, to rid themselves 01 the bur
den* for which the republican rrnrty of
the whole union i* responsible, oeeause
union
oiniuontnud cultured historian Bancroft
the navy, which carries tho flag
every sen, and which has thundered
American liberty iu all our war*—thi*
{'rent department, under Grant, has be
iulrusted to the dishonest hand* of
man who is thought by a great majority
of ItiH fellow-citizen*, upon good evi
dence, to ho no better than a public rob
ber.
And the war department—what shall
say of that? The great department
which, with the navy, and more than
the navy, holds tho honor and safety of
the country iu its hands—the depart
ment organized by Henry Knox,of revo
lutionary fame, and since filled by Mar
shall. and Monroe, and Gass, and Murcy,
and Htanlon—this great department ha*
at la*t come to bo lu?l<l by a man mean
and huso enough to reach out hi* hand
from hi* luxurious palace in Washington
and roll tho poor common soldiers on our
bleak western frontuuiatU. their moss ta
bles, rob them of thoir-raWons, tho poor
privates whoso protection and comfort
ought to have been dear to him ! What
more ? There is tho postmaster-generaI-
ship with Oroswell and hi* frauds, and
the interior department with Delano
and his public infamy, and there i* tho
attorney generalship, that groat, law office
of the government, given into the weak
hands of u man liko Williams— 1 “ Lnn-
daulot Williams,” as ho is called—the
who connived at fraud, and rode
about iu a carriage stolen from tho gov
ernment. This was Grant's choice of a
successor for Pinckney and Wirt and
LvarlsI Ami more than this, he sent
the immo Williams to tho senate to fill
the exalted and spotless office of Chief
Jnsf.ico of the United States! To that
had it come at last, under Grant—Wil
limns a* successor to John Jay and John
Marshall and Salmon P. Chase.
And during all this dreary und dis
graceful chapter in our political history
Gen. Grant has steadily stood by
these recreant nubile officials, giving
them hi* confluence and protection,
while he has just iih steadily frowned
upon und turned out honest men. Hoar
and Cox, at tho beginning, and Bristow
and Jewell in these latter times—all
these men had to leave hi* cabinet lie-
cause they honestly tried to do their
duty and reform abuses, while he has
citing, wit h all tho stubbornness of hi*
nat ure, to hiicIi men iih Delano and Rich
ardson, and Belknap and Robeson.
Whenever the honest wrath of a people
ha* driven a huso public servant from
power because he himself was shamed
into resignation, there Grant Iiiih been
with his words of energy and his letters
of confidence. You know (hat this ha*
been so, They call it standing by his
friends. Well, Unit is a good trait, if a
man’s friends aro decent people and fit
to stand by. But how comes it that
Grant has never made the mistake to
stand hy an honest and fearless public
officer in the discharge of hi* duty?
How comes it Hint when the people turn
out men for dishonesty, Grant immedi
ately rewards them V
Wo thought in Michigan two years
ago that we had at hist god rid of Zaek
Chandler. The people were tired of his
political rule, of Ids coarse, demagogue
wuys amt hi* had notoriety in the coun
try, and with the help of his own party
they rose up and overthrow him—cost
out of tho senate and into private life,
as a useless and dilapidated demagogue.
But Gen. Grant, true to thi* way of do
ing business of which I have spoken,
reached jforlh his presidential hand and
lifted him out of the political gutter and
put him in his cabinet to ornament hi*
administration and give him sober coun
sel in regard to his great duties!
','ortT or tjie Great Ihtilmijh Canal
John O. Trautwinc, an engineer of
great experience, who was connected
with the construction of the Panama
railroad, and who made an exploration
for a canal hy what i* known as the At-
tratro route, says that no canal can ho
constructed across the Isthmus, which
will be satisfactory for less than $1100,-
000,000. Ho hold* that it would not he
possible to const! net a canal on the most
favorable route without having tide-
locks nt either end. Tho rise of tlie tides
along the Pacific shore* of the Isthmus
range from sixteen to twenty feet, while
the rise on the Atlantic side averages
only about two feel. He think* that at
least two tidelocks will he necessary in
order to check the current, which would
materially impede navigation.
Butter is very high just now, and
Hpilkin’* landlady remarked to that gen
tleman, with emphasis, this morning, as
he was preparing a piece of bread : " Mr.
Hpilkins, that air is (Joshing butter, and
will make you sick if you spread it too
thick. It cost forty cents 11 pound”
Hpilkins says that many is the lime she
has snatched him from the tomb hy her
carefulness.--Skn Antonin lkrnhl.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The Lee monument Bind now amount*
to $25,000.
When is a blow from a lady wolcomo?
When sho strikes you agreeably.
A man must bo pretty drunk to go
along the streets holding fast to Ills coat
collar with both bauds to prevent falling
down.
er> 'he chief Japanese exhibitor at tho
centennial is called " Filter Dojlcie,” be
cause that is bis response to overy ques
tion put to him.
Byron wrote. “How sweet to hear
the \Cntoh dog’s honest bark.” From
which wo infer that Byron never attend
ed a midnight sociable in a farmer's
melon patch.
“ Why do tho butterflies waft their
wings?”—a twenty-two verso poem; by
“ F.smoruldiiis respectfully declined,
with tho information that they have to
do it or walk.
The Graphic says: George William
Curtis says “a ship on the ocean is only
a chip with a thought iu it.” Then a
chip in tho wood-house is only a ship
without a thought iu it. This is curious.
An old minister once said to a young
preacher who was, complaining of a
small congregation. " It’s as large a con
gregation, porliaps, a* you will want to
account for at tho day ol judgment.”
There is nothing dispels the dreams
of youth and shatters the ambitious
hopes of the noble boy like having a
young lady remark iu his hearing Hint lie
would make, with study, a good hat
rack.”
Adelina Patti is not in good health.
Some say that her throat, la affected,
others that her lungs are threatened ; at
ntH, her physicians have forbidden
her to bravo the rigors of tho Russian
winter the coining Reason.
The indicative mood, present tense of
0 verb to go, should now bo rendered
thus: I go to Philadelphia ; you go to
Philadelphia ; ho goes to Philadelphia:
wo go to Philadelphia; you go to Phila
delphia; they all goto Philadelphia.—-
Buffalo Courier.
It makes tho new preacher awful mad
to he fumbling with the intricnciPH of a
front gate fastening trying to got in and
make his first pastoral call to have tho
woman of the house turn the slats in tlie
hay-window and call out, “ Wo haven’t
got 110 old clothes to give away and there
ain’t a cold vlttlo in tlto house!”
Mrs. Hitting Bull got possession of
a fashion magazine the other day and
was so delighted with tho latest mode*
that sho cut out all the colored plates
und juisfed them on various parts of lior
body. Hhe says they are a " heap nice,”
and sho wants her husband to subscribe
for a year to enable her to wear the latest
styles every month.
“Talk about givin’ into a man’s
temper,” exclaimed Mrs. Tenrhnir, with
her arms akimbo ; “ that’s all nonsense!
Why, when my sninuel und mo uuh
married, lie had such a temper, imt look
at him now! Why, he's that angelic
that I do declare I don’t bolievo it’d be
safe to trust him with a pair of wings.”
An editor is described a* a man who
liable to grammatical blunder*, typo
graphical errors, and lapse of memory,
and has twonty-flvo thousand people
watching him tripping—a man of sorrow
and acquainted with grief, poorly paid,
poorly estimated, yet envied hy some of
the great men ho has made.—New Or*
learn Bulletin.
When IIiim pmiNina wmlri IhiIoiki,
WIiOll Iiiih fiiiiik your i-IhiIiik huh,
Whim woMimri with Rlirliit In story,
Loolilnu o'nr life's fliilnliod story,
'I lii'ii, Loril, hIiiiII I fully know -
Not lilt thoil—libw (mum I owe.
Wlnm 1 Klnnri ls-Iorn Thy throlio,
Dii-hsMIii Im-hiiIy not my own,
When I tw>Then us Tima art,
l.ovn Them with uiiHlnnlnu Inuir(,
Thru, l*»nl, Hmll I fully know-
Not till thou—how inin h I own.
When tho prnlHoof Inmvoii I I;
I .'imt 1111 llininli-rri lo l lit. oar,
Hwimt iih harp's iih-IoiIIoiih v
Thnn, Lorri,-hull J fully know--
** I till then—how 1 ‘ ’
E'en on OMrlli, as Ihroiiah a ulnn
Dmkly, lot Thy glory pm-s;
Mukc Thy spirit's help ronnict
E'en nil i-srtli. Lorri, iimkr
Hoiiifthlng of how iiiuoli I
Ulioson not for goori in mo
Wnki-m-il up from
11 In tin
Hlilrii-n In llm Savior's
'rath lo flee,
By tlm spirit snnntllli'tl;
Touch mo, Mini, 01
Hy my lovo, how u
irlh to show,
When Beth got homo from mackerel-
ing I10 sought his Ha rah Ann, and found
that she, the heartless one, had found
another man. And then most awful
tight I10 got, and so he went away, and
bound himself to cut live oak all clown
in Florida. Ho pined upon tho live oak
land, be murmured in the shades; hi*
ax grew heavy in Ids hand, ail in the
wild-wood glades. Mosquitoes bit him
everywhere, no comfort did ho get, and
how terribly he’d swear whenever he
got hit. At last, despairing of relief,
and wishing himself' dead, lie went into
the woods a piece and chopped off his
own head.
Down in the southeastern part of Vir
ginia flourishes a breed of semi-wild hog*,
called in the country vernacular “ wind-
splitters,” or “razor-backs.” They greatly
resemble a greyhound in shape, and in
speed would successfully compete with
one. At one of the county fairs, sever
al years ago, an enterprising Pennsylva
nian placed on exhibition a pen of sleek
fat Berkshires, which presented a marked
contrast to the leaner native specimens
by which they were surrounded. Their
owner one day encountered one of hi*
competitors in swine culture, and ven
tured a comparison between his own and
the silent occupants of the neighboring
jH'ii*. " NYa'al, stranger,” replied the
ruralist, "they may he iight'sinartfor you
mi*, but down in this yar country you
couldn’t give ’em ’way.” “ Why not ? ”
asked the astonished Pennsylvanian.
"Why, ye see »l ranger, down yar a hog
that can’t outrun a nigger ain’t wutli a
cuss.” This anecdote was told by sena
tor Withers, of Yirginia, iu a stump
speech delivered iu Chesterfield county.
\YJ10n he descended from the platform lie
was accosted by a venerable darky, who
had been an attentive listener; with the
query : " I say, Mars Withers, wliar can
I git some dem hogs. Fo’ .Clod, dey’s
jess de breed for dis yar kentry.”