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‘ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS W^EN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefierton.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. 1871.
NUMBER 16
Kemmrfca or Hon. W. V. Price on tiae
Ku-Kiui BUI.
Wc republish in another column, from tbe
Daily Giobe, the remarks ol Hon. W. P Price,
made, on the 4th instant, in tire tunning debate
on the Ku-Kiux Bill. 41
Mr. Free presents bis views on the question
under discussion in a very clear, forcible and
impressive style. lie vindicates the State which
he, in part, represents, from the slanderous
charges which had been made the pretext ol
the proposed legislation by Congress, and shows
that the condition in which his people have
been p.accd is not one ol choice, but one which
has-been brought about by influences over
which they have exerted little or no control
We commend these remarks to tbe carelul pe
rusal of our readers.
Decoration ol tlie ttrarea of tbe Confed
erate Dead.
The return of spring time, with its sweet
flowers, is moviDg the noble hearts of Southern
women to the performance of me sad duty they
owe to the memory ol the gallant heroes who
died in deltnce of their country. Everywhere
throughout the Sunny South they are preparing
to strew flowers upon their graves, the emblems
of a nations love and gratitude lor its laden
braves. This is a custom that should be ever
honored. Respect and love exhibited for the
virtues of the dead, bespeak the virtues of the
living. When a people forget their noble dead
—those who fell in delenee of freedom's sacred
cause, they are ready themselves to become
slaves.
Tbe OTacon Tclejji-u|»l« and Mcncnscr’n
April Pool.
The St. Louis Republican, a paper of very
large circulation, has copied, without remark,
the Ku-K ux outrage which the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger got up and published sb
an April loot hoax. Thus the story will go,
and its circulation will not cease till the next
Presidential election is over.
The Mobile Heslstcr.
That staunch Democratic journal, the Mobile
Register, con cs to us to-day with an entirely
new' face. Wc trust that the metamorphose is
typical of continued prosperity.
Drcadlnl Tragedy.
The Mobile Register ol the 9th instant con
tains an account of a dreadful tragedy which
was enacted at W liistler, Alabamma, on the 8th
instant. Dr. L. Martinez, a citizen of that place,
was shot dead while reading in liis office, by
one Gcoge Hahn, of’Qiritinan, Mississippi. The
cause which led to ibis terrible deed is not re
lated fully in the Register. But enough is sta
ted to show that the wife of Hahn, who had
been under the medical treatment of the de
ceased, had some connection with the affair.
A South Carolina Jury -Beauties of Rad-
Icallnm.
At a late special term of the Court of Com
mon Picas for Sumter County, South Carolina,
there were but three white men among the twen
ty-four jurors on the two panels—two on jury
No. 1, and one on jury No 2. To these juries
were given the most important cases, some of
which were so complicated as to embarrass, at
times, the Bench and the liar. What a condition
o! things!
Stale Item*.
Brunswick is to have hotel on a scale com
mensurate, with the wants oi that growing
place.
The State Dental Society convened in Au-
gustu on Friday last.
Our exchanges bring cheering accounts of
the lruit prospect every where in this State.
Colonel J. B Gonder publishes a letter in the
Auguste Chronicle and Sentinel, addressed to
Governor Bullock, in which he declines the ol-
flee ol District Judge, ou the ground ot the in-
eonstitutionality ol the act creating the office,
and the unconstitutional manner ot his appoint
ment.
Wo quote as follows from the Newuan Her
ald, ot Friday:
Attkmi’tko Assassination.—On Thursday
niglit', the 30th ultimo, a most diabolical attempt
was made to assassinate Mr. Isaac Baukston,
the overseer ol Colonel J. M. Ilill, at the plan
tation ot the latter in the Brst district of this
county. The would-be assassin tired in through
a window ol Mr. Bankston’s house, soon alter
his return trom the labors ot the day. One ol
his chldren sleeping near the window in its crib,
nasrowly escaped being killed. The shot and
slugs intended lor Air. Bankston passed near
him into the opposite wall, tearing the lower
portion oi the window,through which the shot
entered, to pieces, borne one or two oi the ne
groes ou the place are suspteted ot this loul at
tempt at assassination, which iurther investiga
tion will probably bring to light.
Bishop Beckwith coclirme-d twenty per
sons at Christ Church, Savannah, Tliursdvy
night.
The Albany Nows says of the U. L Kimball
House, in this city :
The building is palatial in its construction
ornamentation and home appliances, while its
furnishing and t<ibls d'hote are princely in their
gorgeousiiess, variety and exuberance. The
highest conception lor human comtort is at
tained iu its admirable arrangement and un
surpassed appointments, nud the castle-building
imagiuiugs of the wildest luxuries could scarce
ly rise to the lowest stage ot its hospitable at
tractiveness.
Hon. B. B. Hinton . is uominated by some of
the papers as a suitable person to preside over
t he Senate of this State.
Tbe Remalniiul JoliuC. Calhoun.
T.icCharleston News ol jesterday’s date con
tain* the lollowing account ol the re-interment
ol Mr. Calhoun’s remains:
Pie remains of John C. Calhoun were ex
humed on Saturday morning, and replaced in
t:.< vault where they origins ly reposed.
L will be remembered by a chosen few, that,
o uignt preceding the evacuation oi Morris
b> the Couiederate iorces, the bones ot
Ca li un were taken from their vault tor obvi
ous reasons, and were laid in St. Phillip’s
Churchyard, to the east ol the venerable church.
There the remains ol our greatest statesman
have rested iu peace during these six eveuttul
years.
The Rector, assistant Rector and the Vestry
men ot Su Pnillip’s were present at tbe disin
terment, and lolhved the coffin as it was born
to tbe old vault west ol the church. It was in
deed a solemn scene. While ail else is troubled
and sad, the nighty spirit ot Calhoun stalks
Abroad, and his du»t, its wanderings over, is laid
lor aye in the uumbie, silent grave—laid in the
bosom of that Carolina which her wisest son
loved so loug and welL
The Siecle gives a vivid description of the
scenes which ensued in the NatK-mti Assembly
•when AL Conti, the ex-secretary ot Uie ex-Km-
peror Napoleon, spoke in favor ol the latter.
The Assembly stormed at him, pale with rage,
and howled opprobrium upon the name ol Bo
naparte. But M. Conu, with his eye-glass upon
his hooked nose, and an impassive look upon
his pale, thin, sinister, and yet comiacl face,
sto -d calmly surveying the excited and frantic
a.- i mblage. Continuing, the Siecle describes
how Victor Hugo made an ineflectual attempt
to induce the Assembly to permit M. Conti to
be heard, but without result:
The lory is unceasing, the yells become more
and more passionately wild—fists are clinched,
faces are livid, and eyes bloodshot with rage.
“ Down with the Bonapartes 1” Down with
Badinguet!’’ All of a sudden, amidst this crowd
and tempestuous tumult, there appears, as it by
steal- nt, a proud nead above the tribune, side
by side with the thin face of M. Conti. The
visage of the new comer is red, his hair and
l>eard are white. It is the visage of Victor
Hugo, the author of “Napoleon the Little,” by
the side ol the secretary of the man of Sedan.
Terribly grand spectacle! From all lips there
came one spontaneous cry of “Chastisement!”
“ Here is chastisement!” {(JhatimenX ! Voila le
duitiment!)
Rpmarta or Hon. W. P. Price, In tlie
Honifi ol K<-pre»eulaliven, April 4, uu
tlie Ku-Kiux Mill.
Mit Prick.—Mr. Speaker: Although I had
prepared an argument to be delivered upon the
question before the House, I will not ask the Ln-
uulgence of the House at this time tor the pur
pose of reading it. Not that 1 am indifferent to
the la>e ol this bill, not that I am indifferent to
the effect which it is calculated to have upon
the people ol my State, but because the argu
ment has already been exhausted. Others,
more able than myselt, upon this side ol tho
House, have exposed its unconstitutional fea
tures anil laid bare the many wrongs which it
will inflict upon trie people it it should become
a law. I desire to occupy the unexpired time ol
my colleague [Mr. Young] in adding the weight
ol my testimony to that ol his, and other gen
tlemen here, to the general good order and
peacefulness which to-day exist in the $outh,
and particularly in my own State.
Disguise it as you may, Mr. Speaker, this hill
is inttnded to affect only and solely the people
ol me iate insurrectionary States. It it becomes
a law. I have no idea that it would ever affect
any other section of the United States than
those States lately at war with the United
States.
1 had hoped, e'r, when myself and colleague
were permitted to take our seats ou the floor of
this House, that the work ot reconstruction was
finished. When the State of Georgia, by the
admission ot her Senators and her Representa
tives, took her place in this Congress, i had
hoped that she was once more a State in tne
Union uud entitled to the protection which the
Constitution ot the United States was intended
to g‘ve her as well as her people.
Mr. Speaker, while 1 have discarded, to a
great extent, the discussion ot political matters
since 1 have been a member ot this House, I
have not altogether been indlflerent to political
questions, l.have contented myselt with de
voting all my time and attention to making my
people feel taht they were completely restored
to the Union. All that the Agricultural De
partment oi the Government could do has been
doDe to make them feel that they were once
more receiving some ot the benefits which the
Government aflords. The Post Office Depart
ment has also done much toward making tbe
people ol my isolated district feel that tuey were
again in the Union and iu relation with the Fed-
real Government. The Engineer Bureau of tbe
War Department has also commenced to ex
tend Us iaoors into my country in order to de-
velope its untold wealth ol mineral and agricul
tural resources.
But, Mr. Speaker, it has remained for this
branch ol the Fedeiai Government to make us
ieel that we were still at war, or ratner that war
was still being waged against us. When wo
surrendered over our arms at Appomattox
Court House aud Greensboro, we returned to
our homes and engaged in the pursuits of peace.
The great captain of your armies said, “ Let
there be peace.” You then gave us war and
called it peace. Now, while peace reigus su
preme iu every section ol the South, you call it
war. I was astonished, the otner evening, to
hear the declaration upon the other side ot the
House, by the geutiemau from Pemisylvania
[Mr. Kelley], that war still existed in the South.
Strange declaration, indeed, when it is known
that there is not a solitary aimed man in the
South opposing either the laws ol the United
States or in opposition to tne soldiery ot the
United States. We have desirsd peace, and
hail at length h«?»n to hefievp th“t «v»r d«sire
nad been reached, that peace was completely
restored—that, having passed through lour or
five years ol tedious and wearisome reconstruc
tion, we had at last reached a position where
we were entitled to an equal distribution of the
benefits ol the Government and an equal share
ot its protection.
Admitting that here and there in the South
au outrage has been comuritted, not alone on
Hi publicans and negroe-, but upon Democrats.
—as tne assassination by a negro ol Hon R. W
Flournoy, a leading Democratic ol the Georgia
Legislature, will show—I insist that crime does
not exist to such an ex'eut as would authorize
the intervention ot any doubtful or even posi
tive power ol the General Government to sup
press. I deny that anything has occurred iu
Georgia since her readmission to the Union
that would justify the exercise ol any such
power as is given to the President by the meas
ure now belore the House.
Instead ol thus coutinuinu to oppress the
people ol the South, it you would only enforce
the laws already in existence lor their protec
tion, it would tend to allay ail the trouale
which really exists in that section. Iustead of
protecting my people as they had every reason
to believe they would be piottcied when their
Representatives could be heard in Congress,
tiny nave still been made to leel the heavy heel
of me tyrant.
Have my people no cause of complaint ? I
dare say that, members upon this floor do not
know me extent ot the outrages, wrongs, and
evils which my people have had to endu e
while passing through me dreary mazes of re
construction, aud wnicir have oecn perpetrated
upon mem by revenue officers and soluiers ol
ihe Uuned Stales Government, who seemed to
believe that became mey vveie still unuer the
ban ot tne Government they were at liberty to
treat them as Uny did, aud lor which they
would not be hela aceoun able. The people
had every reason to believe and hope that mis
treatment would nc slopped when reconstiuc-
liou was accornp ishtd.
Air. Speaker, Fhave before me several letters,
iuloruimg me of outrages ieceu ly peipetrated
in my own county by United Estates soluiers
and revenue officers.
There are hundreds and hundreds ol loyal
men in my district, who reinatued loyal to the
Government ol the United Estates during the
entire war, some ot whom believed mat they
had a legacy lelt to them for their loyalty alter
the war, to-wit: the right to manufacture whis
ky without let or hinuerauce. Some of them,
perhai.s.had never learned that there was a law
against me distillation ot whisky until very re
cently. These revenue otficers went into my
section ol me State Idr tne purpose of arresting
Luis class ot otieuders, and perpetrated outrages
on innocent men not at all connected with the
business which would astonish tUis House it
Uiey could be stated in detail. Peaceable, law-
abiding citizens were taken and dragged trom
their homes, aud carried a distance ol neany
one hundred miles, to he examined as to whether
they had violated the revenue laws. In one
case the party was not allowed to take a change
ot cioihiug or speak to iiis tamuy. And when
euty or more ol my neighbors were taken
away trom their homes and minifies, and exam
ined belore United States officers at Atlanta, it
was found that no ground of complaint existed
against them ! But still therr property was de
stroyed. Are they to 100k in vain lor redress ?
Air. Speaker, is not my statement sustained
by the facts t I have betore me the charge of
Judge Erskine, the United States Judge tor the
District ot Georgia, in which he calls the atten
tion ot the grand jury of the United States Dis
trict Court to the outrages and wrongs upon
these people. This charge was delivered re
cently by the Judge I have named, a man whose
loyalty and whose devotion to the Republican
party will not be gainsaid. I quote but an ex
tract or two Irom Judge Erskine’s charge, as I
fiuu it in the Atlanta papers:
“ In regalu to the action ot certain parlies iu
Hall, Forsy.h, and Lumpkin counties, me judge
hauuied uieai ‘with gloves oil.' He sam, in
substance: 'I leel it to be my duty, a most pain-
lul duty, as the judicial officer ot the Govern
ment ot the United States for the State ot Geor
gia, to mention to you an act ol great wrong—
it, indeed, it is not deserving the still graver
name ot outrage—which has been done to a
citizen oi the United States and a resident of
this judicial district. I am imormed by a cred
ible authority that some two or three weeks
ago certain persons acting in the service ol the
revenue department, whiie in the lawiul duty
of searching lor and arresting violators ot the
revenue taws, became transgressors of the sta
tutory laws of Georgia. Corning to a toll-bridge
in one ol the upper counties, they ofiered to the
man in charge some written or printed paper,
catted script, to pay lor the tolL Tne man took
it, and they were, with their prisoners, about to
cross, when the owner ot the bridge came up
and refused to let them pass unless they paid
the toll in money. The owner had a gun in his
hand; nearly all the other side were likewise
armed.
“ No hard words, it appears, passed between
them. They bnrst open or beat down the gate,
seized the owner of the bridge, placed hand-
enfls upon him, tied a rope around his waist,
refused to allow him to speak to his family or
get a suit of clothes, and, in this condition,
marched him to this city, and charged him, be
fore W. B. Smith, United States commissioner,
with the cSenBe ot resisting officers ot the Gov
ernment in the lawful discharge of their duties.
The parties showed by their .own testimony in
the examination subtantially the foregoing state
of facts. Hon. J. D Pope, Uni ed States dis
trict attorney, who was present and conducted
the case tor tbe Government, when he heardthe
testimony, with laudable indignati&n, moved the
commissioner to discharge the accused; and he
was immediately released- 1 have been inform
ed that one of the deputy United States mar
shals was present when these acts were done.
I also learn from the dist rict attorney and Major
Smyth, United States marshal, that there was
no evidence whatever belore the commissioner
implicating him in the transaction. But to
return, it persons will have the temerity to
violate the criminal laws ol the United States,
the Constitution aud the acts of Congress pro
vide the mode of executing process ot the
United States courts; tuey have the power and
will not be backward in enforceing it. Then,
I say, let no man dare take the laws into his
own hand; for where this has been permitted,
as has been the case often of late in this and
neighooring States, by bands ol outlaw, anarchy
and confusion reign
“ The Government of the United States is
supreme within its sphere. With its giagantic
powers, it is, as all Jinow—and all know and
feel who venerate it—benign and forgiving as
mercy itself.
“ It is the duty of this court, and it will
always be my pleasure while 1 have the honor
to preside here, to execute aud enlorce the laws,
and at the same time to retain the respect and
affection of the citizen to the nation.”
Since this question has been betore Congress,
and since it has been proposed to enact addi
tional reconstruction laws for the South, my
people have become alarmed, and numbers ol
the best men in my district have written to me
rexuesting that I would do all in my power to
prevent any such bill as this from becoming a
law. I have before me a letter, written by J udge
C. D Davis, a pupil at one time of the celebra
ted Judge Story, whose Commentaries on the
Constituuon are so often cited on this floor.
Judge Davis has been a Republican, appointed
to office by G <vernor Bullock—a native of Mas
sachusetts, reared and educated in the North—
who came down into our section long before
the war. He’is an upright man and an honest
judge. Understanding that the passage ol the
bill ot the gentleman trom Massachusetts [Mr.
Butler] was to be urged at this session, he stop
ped in the midst ot his court, in the county ot
Jackson, to write me the lollowing:
“I have just been informed that there ig now
pending belore Congress a bill ior the appoint
ment ol commissioners in each county here tor
the arrest and examination of persons, and
binding them over lor trial in the United States
Circuit Court. Such a measure would eventu
ate in disaster alone, and only tend to irritate
and wound more deeply the already deeply in
jured feelings ol our people. I pray that we
may be let alone.”
I could read quite a number of other letters
of similar tenor, hut I am unwilling to trespass
longer upon the attention ol the House.
I ask gentlemen from the North aud from the
West to save the people ol the South from tur-
ther inflictian ol wrongs. They desire to be
restor d in good feeling and amity to their rela
tion with the Government. They desire like
wise to be protected' by its laws" They wish
to live in obedience to the Constitution of the
United States. There is not a white citizen ol
my State who has not, perhaps, taken the am
nesty oath. If they desire one thing more than
another, it is to feel that they are again in the
Union and protected by the Government from
its own officers. I trust that the House will not
pass this bill, but will adopt such a policy as
will make the Southern people leel that they
are again in the Union and restored to the con
fidence of the Government.
Small Clippings.
That was a sly dodge ot the Connecticut Re
publicans in having deputy United States Mar
shals at the polls on Monday last in order to
spot New York repeaters, when no New York
repeaters were there to be spotted. It was the
“ Sharp game” over again.—N. Y. Herald.
Between the Red Republicans ot France and
the Black Republicans of America what a nice
little international game ot Rouge et Noir
might be played.—Boston Post.
The Western Female- Cellege, at Oxford,
Ohio, is burned. Several girls were hurt by
leaping from windows. They lost most of their
wearing appareL The loss is $60,000.
A son of the late President Tyler, only
twenty-one years old, is in an uhlan in the
Twelfth Army Corps ot Saxony, and served
throughout the Franco-Prussian war.
The latest outrage on the Democratic side of
the House was the appointment, yesterday, ol
a colored page, named Allred Powell, the first
one ever selected in either House. He was ap
pointed from Virginia by Representative Por
ter, and except some practical jokes which
have been put upon him by some ot the older
pages, he got started very creditably.
Two young men of Selma threatened to fight
a duel about calico, but they made up and
kissed.
An exchange, describing a funeral, says:
“ The procession was tine, aud nearly two miles
in length, as was also the prayer ol Dr. Perry,
the chaplin.”
A Philadelphia paper says of a popular ac
tress : “ She lorms friendships wherever she
may sojourn among the most recherche of her
sex.” She is probably a lady ol the most
recherche character.
Many ol the most profound scholars and able
publicists ot the day are of Hebrew descent.
Among others, says Harper’s Bazar, may be
named Disraeli, Cremieux, Borne, Momefi jre,
Auerbach, Henrich, Heine, Jules, Janin, Grace,
Aguilar, Fould. In music—Heiz, Meyerbeer,
Halevv, Gottschalk. In drama—Rachel. In
the United States—Raphael, Wise, Lillienthall,
Leeser, Einhom, Noah, Isaacs.
Washington, Art! If.—Blodgett and Gold-
taw aile resolutions 1 hied in the Senate—dead
for this session. I
Robertson will ca2 np the Amnesty bill at an
early day.
The latest adviceslrom France state that the
situation is unchange !, except that the Maraail-
les Government is complete na#r of the situ
ation at the bridge of Naoilly.
Outside of Paris aU is tranquil.
The Official Journal says the Assembly favore
a kingdom as a government, hot says that Corn-
maoism ftndNapoleon must perish.
The army of Paris numbers two hundred
thousand.
Washington, April 10—In the Senate to-day
Mr. Carpenter also spoke against seating
Blodgett.
Trumbull, in the course of the debate, called
for the reading ot Blodgett’s credeniials, which
were found defective as to when or by whom
elected.
Cameron called for Trumbull’s credentials,
asserting that they would be found equally de
fective. Trumbull’svcredentials were read, and
they contained a foil statement ol when, how
and by whom he was elected. The little crowd
ot disaffected Republicans had a general laugh
over tire denouement
Washinton, April 10.—The amnesty bill,
which passed the H«cse, excepts only members
Ol Congress, officers*"! **»® »»*y and uavy,
who lelt to goin thejj . b.ilion (so-cailed), and
members oi State Conventions who voted for
secession. The bill passed amid applause on
tbe flower aod gallery.
In the Senate a resolution was passed re-af
firming the revolution of December 12th, 1870,
which condemns the-present Internal Revenue
y stem, and recommending its abolition. It re
quires the repeal oi all stamp and other internal
taxes, and a proper adjustment of rates on
distilled liquors.
The vote on the Kn-Klux bill will probably
lie taken on Thursday, and Congress will ad
journ on Saturday.
Scott spoke anti Blodgett, and Sherman, anti-
Blodgett and Goldthwaite.
In the Supreme Court the Confiscation act
held to be constitutional—re-affirming former
decision, as to personal property aud real es
tate.
London, April 13.—A great oppressive move
ment on Paris expected.
The Prussians have established a battery at
St. Denis, pointing towards Paris.
The Church ot Notse Dame De Lorette has
been pillaged, and the Curi of Madebine ap
pended by the Pannair mob.
Washington, April 12.—Court of Claims in
session. Itgiv<# otlce that petitions addressed
to them should i>c accompanied by all the writ
ten evidence in possession of claimants. It
decided also that priuted forms of the iron
clad oath may be used.
FRANCE.
Paris.—Cannonading betore Paris resumed.
Placards, advising conciliatory measures to
wards the Versailles Government, were de
stroyed.
The women have been invited to organize
into military companies for the defence of the
city.
Washington, Ap.il 11.—House Deficiency
and appropriate bills were discussed.
Brooks advocated redaction of revenue and
taxes to the amount of one hundred millions.
No action taken.
Senate.—Sherman introduced a resolution
instructing the Finance Committee during the
recess to revise the system ol taxation. It went
over till to-morrow.
The resolution to advert Blodgett and Gold
thwaite to their seats, was laid on the table by a
vote of 19 to 17.
The House amnesty bill was read and laid on
the table. Robertson gave notice that he would
call it up before the end of the session, and see
whether a majority would object to its consider
ation.
Connecticut, April 11 —The Board of Can
vassers will meet on the 21st instant to canvass
the vote tojr Bta e^2-ore.
a’arih, April iy,— t
hundred thousand des
perate men are under the command ot the
commune, and are barocading every street. To
carry these bamicades will lead to bloody work
The Central committee are disgusted with
the commune. They say that they must re
sume the power given the latter, and set them
aside. That unless Versailles is overthrown
they and the Republic are lost.
No further fighting reported.
The Negro as an Element.—That the ne
gro was invested with the right to vote that he
might decide elections in favor ot the Repnbli-
can party, is a tact that cannot be successfully
denied; that he has failed to do the work for
which he was enfranchised is fact exually pal
pable, and much more interesting and sugges
tive. In the election in 8t. Louis last Tuesday,
the Radical party was reinforced by an element
that never appeared in oar municipal contests
before, and yet that party was defeated by a
majority larger than the strength ot the new
element. The accession of a body of a thou
sand or twelve hnndred new voters to the Rad
ical ranks was attended by the deteat ot the
party that has managed for eight years to carry
our municipal elections without negro aid. It
was the same in Indiana at the last November
election in that State; live thousand colored
votes were added to the Radical strength, but
the Radical party in spite ot this reintorcement
was beaten ior the first time in many years.
Negroes voted for the first time in New Ham-
shire at its recent election ; and the defeat was
attended by the defeat of the party they voted
with. Even in the South, where the population
in many districts, and in some States, outnum
bers the white population, the Radical party
has been able to maintain itself only through
the artificial and ouside aid, afforded by federal
bayonets and proscription ot its opponents—St.
Louis Republican.
“ The flag of the Commune will be that of
the universal Republic.”—lelegraphic dispatch.
The red petticoat forever. Huzza 1
A lecturer undertook to explain to a village
audience the word phenomenon. “ Maybe you
don’t know what a phenomenon is. Well, I’ll
tell you : You have seen a cow, no doubt.
Well, a cow is not a phenomenon. You have
seen an apple tree. Well, an apple tree is not
a phenomenon. But when you see tbe cow go
up the tree tail foremost, to pick apples, it -is a
phenomenon.”
As might have been expected, the demi-monde
of Paris “ fraternized”—everybody traternizes
in Paris these days—with the Prussians during
the occupation ot the city. The result now is
that when they promenade on the streets they
are pelted with rubbish by the street gamins
amid cries of “ a Berlin !”—just the enemrage-
ing cry of the Paris moil to ach other in the
beginning of the war.
It is now stated that the estate left by Baron
Nathaniel de Rothschild, who died last year in
Paris, amoanted to $25,000,000 instead of $9,-
000,000, as originally reported. Quite an inter
esting piece ot intelligence Ior his heirs in this
country (if any there be) to ponder over.
Miss Belie Br>wn, a K:okuk tWl, had her
calling rnr is printea • Beiue Brow.,,” twow-e
tier preitj .riuaa Nell alwaj’s signed ner name
Nellie. Belle’s irieads say they can’t stomach
such affectation.
A young woman's conundrum—Who is our
favorite Roman hero't Marios.
“ I say, boy, is there anything to shoot about
here?” inquired a sportsman ot a boy he met.
“ Well, no,” replied the boy, “ unless you’d like
to take a crack at our school-master, who is
just over the hill, cutting switches.”
The recent explorations in Jerusalem have
excited great interest among the fraternity of
Free Masons throughout the world, on account
ot the discovery ct what are believed to be
“Masons’ marks’’ on a considerable number ot
the immense foundation stones recently uncov
ered under the debris of one of the ancient
temples of that city.
The beet thing out—aa aching tooth.
A Wedding Sensation.—The last sensation
uut in Nelson county is over a matrimonial mis
hap which occurred not long since. The case
is that ot’ sprightly little lady, aged thirty-six,
who, laboring under the mistaken idea that a
husband incarcerated in the State prison at
Frankfort, amoanted to a divorce, a vincolu
matrimonii, without any intervention ol a de
cree from a court having jurisdiction to grant
divorces, gave herselt in wedlock to a gay old
widower of seventry three summers. The con
sequence was that only a tew days ot matrimo
nial bliss were allowed them—they were as
happy as two very large sun-flowers—when the
stern, inexorable 1 aw stepped in and declared
them twain, notwithstanding the man of God
had pronounced them bone of one bone and
flesh of one flesh. They twained accordingly,
and executive clemency has already been
bought into requisition to relieve the lady of
any prosecution for bigamy. The couple are
uow quietly resting on their oars, waiting lor
the next term of the Chancery court to come,
when a divorce will be obtained from the “old
love,” who is still in prison, and another wed
ding gone through wity as to the “new.” The
bridegroom has already given substantial evi
dence ot his affection for the lady. On the day
of their first wedding he dee Jed her two hun
dred acres of land and made her a present oi
three thousand dollars in money. The day fol
lowing he was so well pleased with his choice
that he increased the land gift to five hundred
acres and the money to five thousand dollars.
Should the little lady, to further test the affec
tions ot her lover, make a demand ot a lew mor,
thousads, on the day of their second weddinge
it would add another interesting feature to the
case.
A Curious Discovert.—Says the Carolton,
Wakand county Record, of the 1st:
“ At the Stanley coal pit, one and a fourth
miles west of town, as the workmen were dig
ging through the vain, they come to a rock 5
ieet by 3 aud 4 inches thick. They dug around
it and, finally, removing it discovered a circular
opening thirty-three inches in diameter, from
which a strong current of air rushed. After
procuring a torch they carefully entered for a
distadee of six feet and descended three circu
lar steps to a circular chamber about 22 feet m
diameter. They discovered lying around innu
merable bones of all sizes, apparently of some
extinct race of animal creation; a number of
octagon shaped copper emblems, on which
were rudely sketched the cabalistic words,
‘ Ome Unite, 1696,’ aud on the verse side, * £.
O. L. A.’ surrounded by an equalateral triangle.
A large coppper maliese cross, with irregularly
traced letters, two of which was disciphered,
• A F* ITfilf RflJlTI'h waa maSo tn. nthap
The Late Pcniloa 4et-Aa«th«r IaKal-
Iohs Measure*
Congress lately passed an “act granting pen
sions to the survivors of the war of 1812, who
served sixty days, and to their widows.* The
act was approved by the President February
14,1871, but not until lately have we had the
opportunity of reading it. The act provides
that persons who served sixty days in the war
of 1812 (with the exesption to which we will
hereafter advert), and were honorably discharged
shall be placed upon the pension roll, and be
pud a pension, at the rate of eight dollars per
month, except such persons as are already re
ceiving a pension at that rate, and if receiving
less than that amount the difference between the
amount they are receiving and the above rate.
It also contains a provision in favor of the wid
ows of such persons, with certain qualifications.
The exception to which we have reierred
above, and which constitutes the iniquity of the
act, is contained in the following words : “and
who at no time daring the late rebellion against
tbe authority oi the United States, adherred to
the enemies of the government giving them aid
and comtort, or exercised the functions of any .
office whatever under any authority or pretend- 4 born oi that long and painful labor
.V Tti. that set thousands ot men agoing and whiled _a
ed authority of the United States.” This pro
vision excludes the class of persons described
as well as their widows, from the benefits ol the
act.
There is a littleness, a meanness, in this pro
vision, that is repregnant to all the better feel
ings ot our nature. This attempt to punish
and degrade tbe survivors of that gallant band
of patriots, at the South, who bared their bos
oms and shed their blood in their country’s
cause, deserves the scorn and contempt ot every
right-thinking man, be his politics what they
may. It shows the depths ot political infamy
to which the party in power has descended,
and the vindictiveness which rambles in the bo
soms oi its leaders towards a fallen foe. The
first note of the war of 1812 came from the
South, her statesmen were its champions, aod
her soldiers were bearing aloit their country’s
standard, while Hartford conventionists were
plotting treason against it. And now the poor
pittance of a pension is denied the former, and
their innocent widows, if perchance they gave
a cup ot water or a loaf of bread to a confeder
ate soldier. This is radical magnanimity—rad
ical generosity 1 The act, too, was approved by
a soldier—“the most unkindest cut ot all!”
Will the radical press of the South sustain
this iniquitous measure ? If so, let it cease to
prate about peace and conciliation, about its op
position to legislation that does not apply equal
ly to the people of all the States, now jthat re
construction has been consumated. Let it openly
proclaim proscription as its policy, for all time to
come, against those who espoused the cause o*
the confederacy.
chambers but none were discovered. Several
ot these emblems can be seen at the Gittings
House, where the curious ««.n examine them.”
j|It isn’t every judge who can pane a sentence.
—Lou. Couritr-Joumal,
Kuii-lus of Jericho*
This ancient order, we understand, has been
lately revived in this city. The lodge, which
was organized in Atlanta in 1852, has been
re-organized with a considerable membership.
The old lodge room was destroyed by fire dur
ing the war, and its plrce of meeting at present
is Odd Fellow’s Hall, over Hightower’s store,
whole entrance is from Broad street, where it
meets regularly every Monday nihght.
The following officers have been elected and
installed for the ba ance of the term : Rev. F
P. Perdue, Chief; .J. P. Pei due, 'Vice Chief,
Rev. C. A. Bowed, Caplain ; Mrs. N. J. Pil
grim, Princeptress; W. G. Forsvth, Recorder ;
Rev. J. J. Ford, Treasurer; I. F. Reeves, Mar
shal ; E. T. Plummer, Herald ; Miss Georgia J.
Forayth, Preceptress; Miss Carie E. Lambert,
Heraldine; C. S. Clardy, Guard; W. Keltner,
Sentinel.
Grant’s Idea of Government*
The extract which we give below, from the
New York World, presents most truthfully the
leading characteristic idea upon* which Presi
dent Grant has thus far proceeded in the admin
istration oi the Government, and upon which
he also bases his hopes ot re-election. He has
discarded the old idea of self-government by
the people, which cur fathers entertained, and
which they sought to secure by the government
they established, and has adopted the theory
that the people must be governed by a master
wielding the sword:
No impartial person can review the history of
Grant’s administration thus far, from his inau
gural to the last week’s vote, and not see that
he has displayed throughout the views and pur
poses of that absolutism which belongs to mili
tary command. This manifestation has, to be
sure, been little and weak, bat yet sufficient to
show that the only ideas oi government he had
or has, were those begotten not of civil, but of
army life. One often hears a military man,
when vexed by the obstinacy or Dervarsity of a
civilian opponent, exclaim: “ If I only had him
in the army, I would fix him.” So it is with
Grant and his military entourage; they have no
experience or capacity to struggle with the re
sisting convictions or purposes of political op
ponents according to constitutional lorms, but
they fly for help to the usages of war or the ma
chinery provided for times of war. For the tra
ditions of peace they care not at all. And, sad
to say, the great Republican party has surren
dered itself to these military dogmas. Hence
we see constantly in Congress propositions by
the Repnblican majority to make the bayonet
the instrument of all administrative retorma.
We need not particularize. Everybody sees
and must admit the truth ot what we say. This
government, as now in Republican bands, lit
erally has its being in the bayonet. President
Grant has a prepossession that the Bwords and
spears of the army, instead of being beaten into
plough-shares and pruning-hooks, are in the
hands of Morton and Butler to be somehow
utilized, under the pretence of legislatioq to
prevent frauds at the polls of put down imagi
nary Ku-Klnx Klans, to promote his re-nomina-
tion and secure his re-election.
St. Iaonla Redeemed-A Democratic News
paper on tne Great Victory.
[From the St. Louis Times.)
St Louis sends greeting to the Union.
For the first time in over ten years the city of
St. Louis, lately disfranchised and dishonored,
elects a Democratic Mayor, and by a vote tba:
indicates her permanent redemption from the
thraldom of Radical tyranny and the spoliation
of Radical venality.
Her gallant Democracy have met the “ re
united” Republicans at the polls and pat them
to overwhelming rout. The home of Grant re
pudiates, by a signal majority, the policy of his
administration. The great principles which he
has abandoned and betrayed have been tri
umphantly vindicated in the chief city ot the
West. The voice ot St. Louis is the voice oi
Missouri. Against the further proscription of
honest citizens; against the worse than Russian
role of the bayonet which the Radical party has
inaugurated; against the infamous Ka Klux
legislation; against the San Domingo swindle;
against the fraud, corruption and folly that per
vade every department of the Government, it
yesterday proclaimed to the country the em
phatic protest of freemen determined to rescue
their country trom the sway ol the reckless par
tisans who have so long trampled upon the lib
erties and trifled with the vital interests of the
people.
The victory which the Democratic party ot
St Laois, by dint of bold and legitimate effort,
n the face ot.desperate and unscrupulous odds
—backed by the promises, bribed with the
money or dictated to by tbe menaces of the
Washington junta—carries with it a significance
that will felt not only in the length and bredth
ot the Mississippi valley, bnt sweep, like the in
spiration of power, throughout the reactionary
elements of the country, from one end of the
Union to the other.
It is an assurance to the friends of political
liberty everywhere that in the great national
struggle ot the year to come the Democratic
party of Missouri will be found shoulder to
shoulder with the Democracy ol New Hamp
shire and Connecticut—ot the East and South
and West—true to the principles of their com
mon faith and faithful to tne destinies of a re
stored, regenerated Union.
The Slow H«>.
It is very easy to have respect for speed. We
all show ready deference and give choice of way
to an express train. There is something super
ficially respectable in whatever brings the means
and the end very close together, whether it be
swift jugglery, swift crime, or swift vengeance.
On the other hand, we are very apt to laugh
at slow results, and display a mild vanity in
making a half boast, half confession, in some
such lorm as “ Oh! I never could do that;
that’s entirely too slow lor me,” which, being
in modesty and ending in complacency, sets ce
lerity up as a standard of excellence. Yet it is
most worthy of note that all rapid action, it it
is to achieve anything, depends upon previous
slow labor and tediously accomplished result
We mention the locomotive engine, with its
thundering train, sweeping down from the dis
tance with an impetus as it it were being hurled
from the clouds, rolling the land in dust, wind
and smoke, and vanishing from sight and hear
ing belore the frightened brutes have ceased
flying trom it We dofi our hats and stand
aside; it is, tor the time being, eminently re
spectable; bat we forget the boy Watts and the
story oi the tea-kettle—and many a man bo-
sides him has gone up and down through half a
lifetime with some such slow but puissant con
ception gradually taking form and developing
method in his patient mind until a day at last
came that men had little looked for, and some-
myriad ot wheels; and then when tbe hubbub
came, the world had respect—lor the hubbub.
All the pains, the failures, the privations, and
the years, are less than nothing in the eyes oi
the throng; the egg is bat a spoiled egg until
the chick is hatched, and then—the egg is gone
and the chick is wondered at.
Bat all this is the surface view. The alow
movement, the slow result—these are the truly
remarkable It used to be a fashion to illus
trate Almighty power, by citing the creation of
the world in six days; now that fact is very
doubtful—so much the better. The Power that
mode this universe—what were time or haste to
Him ? It reveals something well to remember :
that all these eloments and forces, all these ma
terials and agencies, with which we make such
haste and which we adapt to all our Bwift -pur
poses with so little though of how or whence
they came, are the results of causes so solemnly
and mightly slow in their majestic action that
all the lives of all the sons ot Adam are but a
minute to the day of that grand task. A man
throws np his arms with a cry—he has found a
diamond or a nuggett— therefore shout, ye peo
ple—but think whether it is greater to find the
diamond or make it.
To speak of lesser things and apply this prin
ciple to human relations: if offers a very clear
explanation ot tbe impulsive and universal re
spect paid to the man who makes money; for
money is coined success; it is labor condensed,
distilled, utilized, and so poised that we can
give it just so much ol the ever-respected swift
ness as may suit us. So, in a comparative de
gree, we like all rapidity; a fast vehicle, a fast
lime, a fast man. Nothing is more prepossess
ing to a people generally than a ceriain amount
ol fidget. And > et these high-pressure men not
the salt of tbe earth by more than ball They
pick up half understood plans, they run away
wita ill-developed schemes, they run a mile to
jump ten feet, they spurt, they Bparkle,they fly;
it they mind the conclusion of men of slow
motion and slow thought (who, we concede,
have to have the last men to carry out those
conclusions) they succeed, but if not, they fail;
bat in neither case does the slow man get any
applause.
There is, certainly, a sort of a slow man we
do not mean ; he who is portrayed so perfectly
in the person of the good Sir Thomas of the
Ingoldsby family:
“Now, sir Thomas the good, •
Be it well understood,
Was a man of very contemplative mood;
He would pour by the honr
O’er a weed or a flower.
Or the sines that come crawling ont after a shower;
Black beotles and hnmble bees, bine bottle flies,
And gnats were of no small account in his eyes,
Wh'lc an old daddy long-legs, whose long legs and
tnigns.
Passed tbe common in color, in shape and Is size.
He was want to consider an absolnte prize.”
And yet our meaning is not as far from even
this as might be expected. We prefer, there
fore to drop the individual and put our proposi
tion as follows: there is no labor, study or re-
serach, (except the trifling of a learned fool,) let
it be ever so tardy in results, but has its use and
deserves esteem. The nameless man who comes
to the village, and sallies ont every morning to
catch flies and bugs; the silent frequenter of quar
ries, gathering bits of dull rock and bottling dirt;
the needy-looking and possibly garrilons inhab
itant of some dingy laboratory, steaming and
compounding among his retorts; Franklin fly
ing his kite, Audibon hunting with his blow-
gun, and many another slow man, half specta
cles, halt dust, pitied by the housewiie, smiled
at by the warfarer, gazed at by the children and
often watched by by the landlord. These are
the slow men, and their labor, not understood,
and therefore ridiculed, is that slow work npon
which alone the fast man can build success. All
honor be to them. Despising, or at least forget
ting the simple deductions ot “so-mnch for
so-much,” they leave into the darknesB ot hidden
things sacrificing themselves to the peradven-
tures ot what iheir love and ardor and toil may
reveal, though even their end came belore the
revelation.—New Orleans Picayune.
The Lawyer and the Irishman.—While a
number ot lawyers and gentlemen were dining
at Wiscassett, a few days since, a jolly sonl from
the Emerald Isle appeared and called lor din
ner.
The landlord told him he should dine when
the gentlemen were done.
“Let him crowd among us,” whispered a
limb of the law, “ and we will have some fun
with him.”
The Irishman took his seat at the table.
“You were born In this country, were you,
my friend ?”
“ No, sir; I was born in Ireltnd.”
“ Is your father living ?”
“ No, sir; he is dead.”
“ What is your occupation T”
“A horse-jockey, sir.”
“ What was your lather’s occupation ?”
“ Trading horses, sir.”
“ Did your father cheat any person while he
waa here?”
“ I sup; os i he did cheat many, sir.”
“ Where uo you suppose he went to ?”
“ To heaven, sir.”
“And whai do you s’pose ha’s doing there F’
“ Trading horses, sir.”
“ Has he cheated any one there ?”
“ He cheated once, I believe, sir.”
“ Why did they not prosecute him ?”
“ Because, they searched the whole kingdom
of heaven, and couldn’t find a lawyer.”
An Instructive' Scene.—As Senator Sum
ner was emerging from the Capital tbe other
morning, he was confronted by an aged fif
teenth amendment, who, bat in hand, and bow
ing and scraping, remarked:
“I believe dis Massa Mumner ?”
“No, sir!—there is no masters in this land—
I am Senator Sumner.”
This nearly sqnelched the old darkqy, but he
rallied with the remark “Ton’s done a heap for
de culler’d race.”
“I am proud to hear you say so,” responded
the magnificent Chawles.
“Denigg eis ail speak of yon in de highest
elevation.’^
Sumner bowed and smiled his acknowledge
ments.
“What 1 was coming at, Boss, is dat de
winter’s hard and de times pretty rough to de
old woman and I, and if you could spare de
old darkey half a dollar—”
Sumner stopped no farther, but with a ma
jestic wave of disapproval from the Senatorial
hand he moved on, while the venerable colored
brother muttered something about “don’t ap
pear to keer much for the niggers, cept to vote
and git der names up.” Just then Sam Cox
came along and gave the poor old darkey a
dollar. Cox is called a copper head.
Love Under Difficulties .—An interesting
case was »tried last Thursday, in tbe Criminal
Court ot New Orleans, in which Gabriel Law-
son was charged with feloniously breaking into
a house. The evidence disclosed the fact that
the accused and the young lady of the house
were in love with each other, and that the ma
ter families was opposed to the suit He was in
the habit of going to her at night and climbing
in at the parlor window. The mother detected
him in the act ot getting into tbe house, and
bad him indicted tor felonious entering. As
may be imagined, the trial was a very interest
ing one. The defendant succeeded in getting
clear, although appearances were decidedly
against him.
Unveiled on a Street Car.—Yesterday
afternoon a well-dressed, close-veiled lady
stood on the corner of Jackson and Walnut,
apparently inspecting the occupants of each
car as it passed. Apparently her scrutiny was
rewarded, as she bailed a passing car, and took
a seat therein. Opposite her sat a gentleman
who glanced quizically at the lady, who in turn
appeared to be peering at him through her veil.
He grew uneasy under this scrutiny, and about
the time the car reached East street, he arose
from his seat, and going to tbe lady, suddenly
clutched the veil, and iiitiug it up, exposing a
flashed, handsome and indignant face. The
man was right in his surmise. From what fol
lowed the passengers in the car inferred that
the lady was a jealous wile spying a truant
husband. The gentleman held an auimated
conversation in a low tone with ihc lady, and
at Second street both letl the car. Visions of
curtain lectures, reproaches, deuiais, tears and
forgiveness arose as the mysterious twain de
parted.— lAniisville Commercial.
A Little Story on Grant.—The Roanoke
(Va.) Times publishes the lollowing :
A good story is told by one oi the Methodist
ministers now in this place attending comer—
ence. Wo do not recollei . of ever seeing it in
print, and we think it too go d to be lost. It is
as follows:
During ibe war a “Coufe.d.” wru captured bv
the Yankees, and happened to lie tak- u i. ; Goo
Grant’s headquarters. Alter being questioned
by the General, the old “ Oonfed." asked him
where he was going.
“I am going,” says Grant, “ to Richmond, to
Petersburg, to Heaven, aud it mav be I will go
to hell.”
Alter eyeing the General for several moments,
the old “Conied ” said:
“ General Grant, you can’t go to Richmond,
for General Lee is there; \ ou can’t go to Pe
tersburg, for General Beauregard is there; you
can’t go to Heaven, ior Stonewall Jacksou is
there; but, n3 to going to hell, you may get
there, for I know ot no Confederate iu that re
gion.”
“Do you think,” said one of the second joints
of the High Commission to a Washington lady
a few days ago, “it Yshouid pass six months in
New England I could become a cute Yankee?”
“I will answer your question,” the lady said,
“ os a‘cute Yankee’ would, by auot’uer. Do
you think if I should remain six months in
London I would become a cockney ?” “Ah 1”
remarked the young sprig of nobility, “ I think
it’s becoming warm here.” “ Why don’t you
s^tj” returned the lady, as he moved away,
i s growing ot N. Y. World.
Ten Thousand Dollars Wortu of Stock
Sold by One Farmer.—Mr. N. O. Hopkins,
who resides near Linden, sold Bertram &, Tate
$10,000 worth ot stock last week, which they
shipped from Phelps City to Eastern markets on
last Monday morning.
This stock consists of 109 steer=, which aver
aged 1,?15 pounds, and a lot of hogs which
were raised principally on Mr. Hopkins’ farm.
Mr. Hopkins is one of our oldest inhabitants and
best farmers. He settled where he now resides
some 33 years ago. Devoting Iris time exclu
sively to farming, with the exception ot serving
one term in the Legislatuse, he has built a model
farm of a thousand acres.—llockport, Missouri
Sentinel.
A Queer Letter of .Resignation,
The Union Times (S. C.) says:
The County Commissioners of Union, two of
whom can’t write, while the third can just
scratca his name at the foot ot a bill, are said to
have sent to Governor Scott, the lollowing res
ignation. •
“To His Excellency, R. K. Scott :
“In accordance with Special Order No. 3, K.
K. K., I hereby resign the office of County Com
missioner.”
_ Governor Scott refused to accept the resigna
tions, and the Union Times (our authory) says
he acted perfectly right. The Times savs that
the resignation, as presenreir; vere mrttntffigYo
the Governornor, who would, no doubt, be glad
to get rid ol the incapable trio if their resigna
tions were put in proper shape.
A 'Whole Family Saved by a Dos.
Springfield, III., April 5.—The fine resi
dence ol Grover Ayers, near South Grand
Avenue, was burned to the ground on Monday
night, the family barely escaping with their
lives. They owe their escape to a watch dog,
Who, by his continued and peculiar backing,
aroused Mr. Ayers, who, happening to look out
of the window, saw the back part ot the house
in flames. He had just time to awaken the
children and sister, who slept up stairs, and
none too soon, for they had just escaped from
the room when the flames burst in where a mo
ment before they wei e sleeping.
A gentleman lately from Edinburgh told me
some anecdotes oj Lord Lorae, tlie espoused of
Princess Louise, that rather account for tlie
“paleness aDd nervousness” one paper remarked
in his wedding lace, and for the “inaudible res-
sponses” commented on by another According
to my Scotch lriend, there is a highland inn
upon the prettiest bit ot the Campbell estates,
and dwelling therein is an old-lime retainer
of the family, who keeps the Lome arms. Du
ring one ot ihe vacations oi the young lord, a
granddaughter of the ancient host come to live
at the inn. The lassie had the loveliest liut-
white locks that ever grew on Scottish head,
and very shortly there grew up a strong affec
tion between the beautiful Highland lass and the
noble young lord For years lie 1ms been de
voted to this Agues, who, upon hearing of the
proposed marriage, took to her bed and refused
to be comforted, aud lias led tbeabitious noble
man a lite of it since, as very properly she
ought. However, that's the scaudai concerning
the Lord ol Lome and Agnes. It Mrs. Louise
Lome reads the itepubiican, as an intelligent
Princess should, I shall be the instrument in ihe
bands of Providence of making her young lde
happy.—M. H. B. in St Louis Rep.
It is tolerably well established that Governor
English is elected in Connecticut, which result
shows a large Demociatic gain from last year;
and as evidence that the movement against Rad
icalism is not going backward we have tlie
Democratic victories in Missouri and Michigan.
Detroit city and Wayne county, have gone large
ly Democratic, and returns liom the State, so
tor as received, show extensive gains on the
same side. Tne cities have mostly elected
Democratic Mayors, and tbe result, as a whole,
is highly encouraging, following so swiftly upon
the footsteps of New Hampshire and Connecti
cut. The St. Louis election has an unusual na
tional significance. The Radicals made the is
sue on national questions. The leading party
organ claimed that Victory at this time meant
success next year, and that failure would “have
the contrary ana disastrous effect.” On this
platform they put their best men, and met with
an utter defeat, which according to their own
admission, is a defeat of the national Republi
can party in the State. Radicalism has ruled
in St. Louis tor eight years with unchallenged
power, and this result is greatly significant.
Grant fob Re-Election.—The. remarkable
speeches of Senator Morton and Vice-President
Colfax, at Washington, Saturday night, are the
bnglo-notes oi the political battle of 1872. Both
these gentlemen have been named in connection
witb the Presidential contest ot that year, but
each declares that Grant i3 the man under
whose banner the Republicans ought to muster,
so that Morton and Coliax may be put down as
committed. Any inside opposition to this se
lection is to be met with prompt rebuke. Thus
the Indiana Presidential spokesman declares
that “ those (Sumner and Schurz) who attempt
ed to impeach him (Grant) ol high crimes and
misdemeanors have been impeached themselves
of supreme folly.” And the impeachment, no
doubt, will be followed in due time with ban
ishment from the party, or other suitable con
dign punishment.
The Vice President is, perhaps, a little more
guarded than Morton in his advocacy ol Grant
tor the succession, but nevertheless he is plain
and direct enough to indicate that whatever
hopes he may have nursed heretofore have
given way to the conviction that nothiDg can
beat Ulysses for re-nomination, by reason,
doubtless, ot the po \ er which has been and is
about to be givtn him. His defence of carpet
baggers and scalawags shows that these two
classes are expected to have not a little to do
with the coming political events. So we may
put it down that the Republican watchword is
“Grant and victory.” (?)—St. Louis Republican.
The man who didn’t believe in advertising
has gone into partnership with the sheriff, and
the totter is now doing the advertising.