Gbobob U. Gooulanobr, Editor.
CIiKARFlKLl,.,P.
WIDMKSPXT MORNINO. FEB. U IITI
kiidir, If ana wool to kaow what If golog oa
la tba baalooaa world, Jaat road oar advortialBg-
solamaa, lb .Voaoto enluma la parilealar.
MAXIM! FOR THE DAY.
No tnaa worth; tba afflaa of Praaldi-nt abnuld
ba wllllni to bold It If aoastad la. or jplaooo! tb.ro
bj an; fraud. V. 8. MaaBT.
I oould aoror bars booa roaoaollad fa tbo olo-Talli-a
b Iho oaiallaal aid of alloc of a poraoB.
k'lworor mpooiablo ta frlaaia lifo, wbo nan
(orator oarrj upon hit brow Iho itamp of fraud
oral triumphant ta Araarican alitor;. No auh
aaquaBt aeltna, eoworor noritorloua, coo waab
away tba lettora of that rooord.
CataLaa Paascu Adahb.
I woald ratbor baaa I bo oodoraoiBeDt of a quar
ter of a ailMlita of Ibo Amtrioaa noopli than that
of Iho LiaiUna HatarniD Board, or of tbo Com
atlaaioa obioh oirludrd Ibo faola and doeidod
tbo qoottioa oo a toobniealitT.
Tsiio. A. HrBsaicKl.
Vador Iho forma of law, llulborford B. Hajaa
baa bno doolarod rraaidi-ot ot tho Uoltod Siaioa
lilalitla roaia upuB diatraoebiirnaot of lawfol
Totora, tbo folao oartlBcatM of Iba Manilng offl
eirfl aotln aorruilir, aad tbo daeiaioa ol a oon
aiiaalua whtoh baa refoaad to boararldoooa of al
loRod fraud. Fur tbo Brat tiaio ara Iba Ataertoaa
ptoplo eoofrooto witb tho foot afa iraaduloally
olralod frtaldoal. Lai it aol ba aadorataod tbat
tbo fraud will bo alionll; aoquloaood in bf tbo
euautr. Lot no boar paai is whiob tho aiurpa
tins ia forgu-.taa.
Aitoaaaa or DauocKATie M. C.'b.
Ona bundrad oara of aaoaaa dapraritj aoeil
aml.i.d ot omiaantratod tnu a oliuax ol nrluio
Harur aa-ala lu ova buodrod joara shall tba; haro
aa opportune tu repaot tha wioog.
Itaoibl W. VooaaBaa.
Tuankb. Senator Alexander and
Jiepre8entalivo Bennett have our
llianko Tor valunblo public documenta.
Mb. Havku on End. From what
hnppencd in Philadelphia tho olhei
day, it ia pretty evident that the de
facto baa turned f lato amanhor. The
appointment of Kx Governor llart-
ranft a Po8tmater. Kx-Govcrnor
Polloek aa Naval Oflker.and the trana
for of Cnlonol Snowden from the Post-
offiio to the Mint, ahowa conclusively
that tho Radical machine ia awfully
out ol time in thocityof Brotherly I.ove
Wi Stand Coi.eecikd. Two woeka
ago wo aeaigncd our member in the
IIouso, Dr. Bennett, to tbo Committees
on Bunks, Pensions and Compare Bills,
supposing that lie, being a Democrat,
would be fi.rlunato il be was placed on
llirco Committees by tho Itadical
Speaker. But since, we notice that he
is also a member of tho Committeo o(
Ways and Means, the most important
Committeo in the House, of which that
old iron-clad rooster, "Lieh" Davis, is
Chairman. Doctor, koep your eye on
him ; he is o mighty clever fellow.
Don't Tak oh So. The Hunting
don Globe rejoicingly remarks : "The
State of Louisiana has defaulted tho
Junuarv interest on her public debt.
Wo aupposo that is called Democratic
reform." Well, what kind of reform
is it we havo here in Pennsylvania,
where we have defaulted cur charity
appropriations, school warrants, Judg
es' pay, etc.? Wo havo had this slate
of ufTuirson bands for over five months,
and you never called attention to our
boasted charity default, or any other
delnult. Those living in class houses
should not fling stones at their neigh
bors. ii
Tit foe Tat. No bull doling just
now, gentlemen, no matter if be in a
Fox. II ay os can bito back as well as
auyboby elxo. lie ia not such a mild
man as ovoiy body thinks. Forinslanav,
old Senator llumlm, ol Maine, baa a
friend named Fox, wbo has been ftr
years collector of customs at Bangor,
and whose name, on Monday, Mr.
Hayes sent to the Senate lor continu
ance in ofllee. On Tuesday, Hamlin,
having been absent when tho voto on
tho Now York Custom llouso appoint
ments was taken, requested permission
to record his vote against Burt, one ot
Hayes' men. Two hours afterward
Mr. Hayes withdrew tho nomination
of Fox. Tho nation enjoys seeing
these olevating exhibitions of temper
in Mr. Hayes.
Moving for 1880. It is ovident
that our party friends are puttir.g on
tho harness for 1880. An Associated
Press telegram from Washington, on
the 7ih,suy: In response loan in
vitation of Senators Wallace and Bar
num, and a number of othor members
ol the Nutional and Congressional
Democratic Committee, met at Wil
lard's Hotel this evening lor consults
lion, their purpose being to arrange
preliminaries pertaining to the organ
Uation ol tho campaign eommittee for
1880. After an Interchange of views
on the question of procedure and the
Host practical method to bo adopted
tho subject of further organiaation was
postponed lor future action, Messrs.
Wallace and Burnum being appointed
a sabeommiitce to consider a report
on the same.
It u All I'lai Now. A year ago
(iov. Hartranll was aoalously urged
ur United States Senator in place ol
on Cameron. The thing took well
r a while, bufllarty" dropped out of
e canvass. Now all can see ho
.latest jumped. The Governor hauled
off after Don promised to make hi
postmaster of Philadelphia, and allow
Don to slip into the SenaUirship. Now
Cameron is Senator again, and"Uarty"
Is postmaster. On Monday last Mr
Hayes sen, to the Senate the following
nominations: Jainos Pollock, to be
naval officer at Philadelphia, vies J.
A. lleisland, a hose commission ox
pires March 1 ; A. Louden Snowden,
to bo Superintendent of iho Pbiladel
phia Mint, vioo cx Governor Pollock
Appointed oaval officer j Jno. F. Uart
rst.ft, to be poatmaelei at Philadelphia,
i A. Loadon Snowden, appointed
JJapertBtcodoot of the Mint.
"HIGH FLIERISM."
Hut a short timo ago lluyoi appoint-
ed that Rartiesf Mcrary "htgS nicr,
tlayard Taylor, ol (. WW county, as
Minister t'lcnipotentinry 10 uermany.!
Taylor die4 iwently, and it is now dis-
covered that hi wile and daugbtorare In'
indigent eircumstances.and the bumano
Senator from Maine, Mr. Hamlin, pre
sented in the l'nitd States Senate tbe
othor day, a letter from the Secretary
of State, bringing to the attenliou of
the Ci mmiltoe on Foreign Relatione
the embarrassment in which tbe wife
and daughter of Bayard Taylor have
boen left by bis death, and recommend
ing an appropriation for their benefit
equal loono year's salary ol tbe Burlin
mission.
Tbedead plenipotentiary has already
drawn twenty-fivo thousand dollars
out of tbo Treasury for about one
year's service, and an attempt s now
made to give the wife and daughter
$17,000 more because they aro poor.
Taylor has spent bis tons of thousands.
Tbo plan of Senator Hamlin is not
half as good as that of Congressman
Wright, who wants tho United Statoe
Government to givo each poor man
(500 and lot him go Wost and squat
on ICO acres of land and enjoy his
(500 pocket money. Tho Taylor fam
ily ask tor too much ; it won I go
around.
m-1-..l ..- -.a j
Nt Uappt. The editor of tbe
Philadelphia Rtcord, In alluding to the
removal of the Naval Officer in that
city indulges in some common sense
remaika: "Tbe substitution of Ex-
Governor Pollock in place of Naval
Officer Hiustand has one grutitying
feature, in that it secures to Mr. Snow
den the Buperintendency of tbe Mint
in this city. But this is all. Tbe officer
who goes out ot the naval office is as
good as tbe officer who goes in. Both
aro exotics who havo no true root in the
mould of ibis city. Mr. Uiestand is the
better of the two.for tbe reaon t hat men
can atill remember a time when be re
linquisbed the publio teat long enough
to take a breathing spell. Tho day
has passed when the commercial in
teresls of this city can be safely in
trusted to respectable figure-heads.
Easy going, good - natured senility,
pocketing tbe emoluments of office
while subordinates do tho work, be
comes in tho course of years a tiresome
spectacle. The people long fur a change,
Tho President turns his back upon tbe
heart and brains of his parly in mak
ing such appointments as Ex-Governor
Pollock's."
Am Inconsibtint Rinatou. Tbe
Philadelphia Timt, in alluding to one
of the Sages ol the Northwest, remarks:
A few years ago Senator Cbrislianry
delivered a speech in theSenateagainst
the admission of Pincbback thai called
a halt in the promotion of carpet-bag
adventurers to the Senate, although
Pincbback bad been elected by what
was at the time a Legislature, recog
nised by Governor Kellogg, and with
undisputed quorums in both branches.
Tbat was when Judge Cbrisnancy had
coino fresh from the bench, where he
had administered law and justice. Now
he has spent four years in Washington,
has breathed the pollution of panu-au
lawlessness, and while holding a com
mission as foreign Minister, be tele
graphs to Washington that bo will
hasten back to vole lor the admissicn
of Corbin, wbo never was elected to
tbe Senate by any pretended Legisla
tive body tbat bad a quorum of any
sort ot members in attendant. How
must tha Judge Cbristiancy of 1874
ostimate tha Senator ChrUtianey of
1879?"
Still Blundirino. Tho Radical
leaders are still trying to prove that
Samuel J. Tilden and his friends at
tempted to buy tbe members of the
Returning Boards in South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana. In attempting
to prove this they establish tho fact
that a majority ot tha voters in all
those States, cast their ballots for Mr.
Tilden, and the electoral votes were
aftorwards cast for Rutherford B.
Hayes, of Ohio. Now, the question
arise', how much did Mr. llayea'friends
pay T If, as ia proven, those Relurn-
ng Boards refused to take 1100,000
from Col. Pellon, bow much did John
Sherman & Co. pay them becan he
got tbe goods and has them yet.
YocumdM. Tho Clinton Democrat
says: ' In throwing out his drag net
Mr. Yooum blindly strikes right and
left. An instance ot this was his ac
cusation against the eleclion board of
Renovo, four of whom voted for him,
as shown in their protest published in
tho Democrat last week, Among the
othor charges be makes is a special
charge that Gov. Curtin, or bia friends,
paid to Dr. U. Stricssley 175 to bribe
voters. Tbe Doctor comes out in last
week's Elk Gazette and says : "I declare
most emphatically that not a red cop
por has been spent in an illegal man-
ner to secure Gov. Cortin'a election,
and I brand the person or persons who
circulated this falsehood as infamous
liars."
HlOHLYCOall'L'MBNTBD Mrs Coles,
daughter of Senator Thurman, wbo is
witb her husband, a naval officer, in
Japan, has just been entertained at the
palace of the Governor. Three days
afterward the Governor accepted the
invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Coles lor
dinner a thing never beard of before
in Japan. This extraordinary compli
ment, it is said, was owing to the fact
that when Minister Yoshida went home
from Washington be said Mrs. Coles'
father was to be the next Emperor ot
the United States."
On Hand. The Chamberaburg Be
petitory seta it up lor 1880 in tbia way '
riisiDtNT,
U. 8. GRANT.
VICB fRKSIDXKT,
J. D. CAMERON.
Now, then, let us see what "stalwart,"
or any othor Pennsylvania Radical,
dart growl or put op any other ticket,
We presume tbat if Don was to be
elected Vice) President, the father would
be routed Into tha Senate again, Just
fur tba fnu of tha thing.
An OrtMso' rot Nam. Conkling
and Hayes are having a st just now.
An exchango remarks: 'Tot calling
Settle black tba Fraudulent Senator
Conkling crying 'Fraud' at the Fraud
lent President Hayes, J art fancy tba
arietocratlo cartoon which Th, AaH
might farniah (or Harpers, If they
weren't all cd tbe aaatt awr
T UK ARMY HOST F. 11.
. ,
Tbe Secretary of War has acnl the
uosc l-.-tirmiiivu . 11'l'"i'7-"iM,,.l,ii,m ,,f In row to crvo in tho V
oy request, a statement .,iuv,.,K "SCour(,, 'n,,, uw really disfranchises
actual sticngiu 01 toe rvguiar urne m
a stated period in each year from the
beginning ot llio Government to the
present tune, Irora which it appears
tbat the strength ot tbo army, both of
ficers and men, from 1789 to 1791, was
about 3,500. From that time to 1813
it varied from 2,000 to G.C00, but in
1813 it was increased to 10,908 in con
sequence with tho war Willi IV real
Britain, and in the next year to 30,
140. Inl815itwas33,434. For 1810
il fell to 10,000, and in tho throe years
following to 8,550. From 1820 to 1838
it averaged about 6,500. For 1839 u
was increased to nearly 10,000, and in
subsequent yeura to 1846 varied from
8,500 to 11,000. In 1847 it was in
creased to 21,686. falling in tbo follow
ing yeais until 1854 to an average ol
about 10,500. For 1854, 15,752, and
from that year to 1801 the average
was 16,000, from 18C2 to 1864 the usu
al annual rcturna of the army were
suspended. For 1865 tbo slrcnj'th of
the army wus 22,310 ; in 18.10, 56,815 ;
in 1868, 51,000; in 1869, 36,771; in
1870, 37,075, and from this period to
1877 it varied between 26.000 and 29,-
000. For 1877 it was 21,000. and in
1878, 25,718.
" Hkbei. Leaders." Tho particular
thin-skinned portion ol this Northern
apnttnn who hivaina la,.mt ao otton
at tbe movements of Ihe' Conleduiule
Brigadiers" had better louk out. The
Baltimore Gazette in alluding to what
is transpiring snys : " II the Republi
can newspapers are to be believed now
the solid South, which a lew months
ago was so madly Democratic that a
Republican could scarcely breathe
within its confines, is now about ready
to sail into iho waters of Republican
ism. Every now and then we hear ol
some Brigadier of grc-t Influence
name not given wbo has made up his
mind to support Grant. The Cincin
cinnati Gazette now reports that a lit-
llo group of Southerners were talking
in Washington, the other day, of the
mixed condition of politics, when sonic
advanced Southern leaders, who have
been characletixed as fiio eaters, "de
nounced the Northern Democracy, pre
dieted the dissolution of the Demo
cratic party and stated that, for their
part, they wore ready to join in any
movement which would cmbruce a
scheme lor internal improvements and
would vote fur James G. Blame fur
President on such a platform." Those
items about "conspicuous leaders,"
"influential leaders," Ac, aro about aa
easy to manufacture as those thrilling
local stories about" certain gentleman
residing on a fashionable street in the
West End."
Radical Honesty. Tbe investiga
lions of tho Potter Committee is devel
oping some wonderful things. For in
stance Gen. Brady, Hayes' Assistant
Postmaster General, comes out of tbe
Potter fire witb bis reputation as badly
smirched as some ot the Louisiana
rogues, lie admitted he obtained en
trance into tbe Senate Committee room,
where the cipher telegrams wero stor
ed, and abstracted (stole; certain ol
the telegrams in which he had a per
sonal interest. And it appears he not
only took his own telegrams, but made
copies of those of other persons. All
this time tbe ciphers wore supposed to
be in the custody of tho Senate Com
mittee ; and the Democratic members
were not allowed access to them until
Morion, tho head devil undoubtedly in
the business, bad the Republican dis
patches abstracted and destroyed. Can
common Ireebooters resort to anything
more degrading in morals?
"A Union Saver." Tho true posi
tion for the Democratic party to occu
py i set forth in the following, part ol
an interviow with Senulor Hampton,
of South Carolina: ''Let us put good,
trusty men in nomination, !carletsly
avow our principles, and show ourselves
worthy ol trust by being willing to
take defeat at tbo bands of the people
should they disapprove of onr policy.
A constitutional rule, tclf government and
no sectionalism I should b the sum and
tho substance of our plallorm, fitted to
good, honorable, trusted and tried
standard-bearers, it matters not wheth
er they be from the East or tho West.
I have no patiunco witb an Eastern
Democracy and Western Democracy,
a Northern Democracy and Southern
Democracy. It Is no Democracy al all
that is not as wido as tbo whole country.-
An "Obuan" Too I -The editor ol
tbe Curwensvillo Timet, delivers him
self in thia way, in bis last issue :
BrlloTief bow, aa wa atwa;a havo, that Iho
prioeip.ra of Ibo Hrpabiloaa parly ara onireat
aad that that graar porta baa laado thia Uoloa
what it ia to day tho froo'aat, riohoat ao t moat
iaaporlaut sallua oa aarth wiihoal turmoil
witaia ito aordora a frca ballot to all ita eii lavaa
(rioapt tbo BagroaaJ froa odooatloa aa I aivll
liborty ta svery porooa wa throw off our 1'idu
ptadoat garb aad aball baraaltor baitlo far iba
upholding aad adraaijamaot of tbo Hapublioin
Jiarlj aa U la to-day.
M To oar Hopabltoaa Moodi wa would aay wa
ahall aadoavor ao ai-iha tba fi'maa aa orao al
tba party that ao publio palrwaaira aaa buy off
ar eloaa our aioaih irvaj apoabiag lur tba oauao."
Tba independent feature of tbe
7i'mi-, it therefore discarded and the
"organ " plan adopted.
A Union Sentiment. The Chicago
Timet says that the intermediary be
tweon Blaino and Blackburn, which
caused them to fall on each olhcr'r
necks and weep, at the McCullotigli
banqnet, was a demijohn of Kentucky
Bourbon. Tho Timet always was a
wicked paper, and evidently fails to
appreciate tba pathos and sentiment
of tbat dramalio scene, in which these
distinguished representatives of the
North and South clasped bands over
the whisky Jug,
Il Oovsraar Itartranft haa bwaoaaa a aitiaos of
Philadelphia, hatleff Ubaa up bia poraaasrat
roaldaaaa aa npraoa atraat. ayrea lapa.
It is jnst one square from where ho
now resides that bt banded tbe great
Bute Collector, George D. Evans, of
back pay war funds notoriety, on the
nneljcvcnlhouMnd duVariKWwh be had
borrowed from Evans while Collector,
and never thought worth while to ask
bim fur a receipt. Wa wonder how
many business men play street tricks
of tbat kind.
Mr. George R. Graham, at ona time
owner and editor ol Graham t Uaeia
tine, ia now tilling tbe position of assis
tant editor of a Newark (N.J ) Journal
He bas accumulated two fortunes, both
of which sypra Jost, It la said, lo alock
speociahjofl,
A Kr.uo or RcAU.AWAnai.RY. U ap-
pours that Congress passed on Aft
o lU
every intelligent citizen in many of the
Southern Slates. The Act in qiunlioii
requires every man summoned as a
juror, to swear that ho has nut williuul
duress and constraint, taken up arms
or joined any insurrection or rebellion
uguinst tho United States, nor volun
tarily given aid and comfort to the
unumy. Thii. Uw requires the Court
to discharge any person declining to
laku this outh from serving on the
grand or peilt jury. Tho result in
South Carolina, al tho lust session ol
United Suites Court, wus thai eighteen
ol tbe twenty. lour Grand Jurors could
not take the oaib, and the Court bud
to adjourn. Five of tbo six who wore
ready to take the oath signed their
names witb an A. Tho sixth was
while man who had dudged tiio war,
and could read and write a number
onuscullawag. We notice thai Congress
ia taking steps to abolish this misera
ble test oalh,lhul now only Ioib negroes
and scaljiwas into Ihe jury box.
"KAVmiKn Citizen." Tho 1'hila
delphiu Ledger, Independent Republi
cun, thinks ' even among the renowned
Louisiana type ol political witnesses,
illiistracd by the Andersons, Jenkses
unit Webers, tho last testifier, St. Mar
lin, must take u front rank. He ad
mi is perjury, bribery slid various erotik
ednens, yet he protested before the
Poller Committee tbat he had a 'clear
conscience.' Besides these venal offen
ces, which leave no burden on his con
science, hut which in these atittidos are
Monies and infamies, St. Martin admits
that he has been indicted three linior,
for other crimes yet he says 'be bus
as good a record as any man in Louisi
ana.' What a nice place Louirana
must be fur quiet, ordeily families ac
cording to the testimony of these ol
her tuvured citizens I' "
JUilkoad TaAtric. The immense
freight carried over the main line of
the Pennsylvania railroad can be ima
giued wben we learn the number of
freight cars that have passed over tbe
road the past year. An exchange says
that Duspalcher W. D. Cramer, al Pat
terson, gives the following statistic ot
care passim; that ioint, during the
year 1878 : Cars going eaxl and load
ed livestock, 29 2:6; line cars, 123,
757 : produce, 25 837 ; oil, 18,436 ; coal
and lumber, 178 737; empty, 8,330
Totul, 384,373. Cars west; loaded,
88 408; empty, 205,508. Total, 383,
070. Number of trains west, 8,289
averngo number ot cms, 47 and on j
sixth. Total number of cars uunt and
west, 768.319, buing 118,670 cars more
than in 1877.
Tux Oxe's and Two's. Tho Wash
ington Post remarks: -'An impression
seems to huve become tustened UHin
the rural journalistic mind that one
and two dollar greenbacks havo been
ordered to be retired. This is a mis
take. Senator Chuffco recently intro
duced a bill providing for tbo retire
ment, and the siibaliiulion of the stand
ard silver on it. The volumes of the
bills ol this denomination remain the
same as when the act of May last Was
passed foi bidding the further retire
ment of tbe legul tender notes. The
rural journuls probably confess the Nu
tional bank 'ones' and 'twos' with tbe
legal tenders. The resumption act
providing for the retirement of the
former.' "
Tub Cipher Witness. Whala pity
it is that tho Potter Committee cannot
separate the cipher witness Zack
Chandler, Tincr, Foster, Brady, etc.,
so that they cannot communicate with
each oilier during the investigation.
Il it had that power as all judicial au
thorilius have in cases of assault and
battery, stealing chickens, olc, and
used il so that each one ol these wor
thies must rely on his own smartness
instead of comparing notes and bol
xluring up each other, tbe entire truth
no doubt would be brought out, and
stealing the Presidency proven to be
quite as unsafe an operation as robbing
a hen-roost. Day Rook.
Widows to be Made Fbke An ex
change remarks : ' Under tho existing
law, if the widow of a soldier who lust
bis lilu in the military service, re-mar
ries, she forfeits her pension. There
are statesmen at Washington who hold
that this prohibition upon marriage ia
contrary to public policy, and not con
ductive to good morula. A bill has
been introduced in tbo House remov
ing ibis obsiucie to murriago among
pensioned widows, and giving litem au
opportunity to contract new niuliimo
nial alliances without forfeiting the
beneficiary luvor of iho government."
Farewell! On the 4th of Murch
four carpet-baggers will quit the Unit-
I .Slates Senale forever Spencer, ol
Alabama, Patterson, of South Carolina,
Horsey, of Arkansas, and Conover, of
Florida. Of tho lliiity-lwo Senators
from tho Southern Suites it will only
leave one scallawag of ibo foul crew to
recall the infamous daya of their pres
ence, and that will be Kellogg of Lou
isiana. After tbo 4th the tone ol that
body will bo greatly elevated by being
relieved of the prewnce of those men
A CounErr View. Louis Weil, tbe
only Jew ever sent to tho North Caro
lina Penitentiary, has been pardoned
by Governor Vanco, who indorsed tbe
lollowing on the paper : "1 lake pleas
ure in saying that 1 sign tho pardon
in part recognition of tho good and
law abiding character ol our Jewish
citizens, this being the first serious case
ever brought to my notice on the part
of any of that people."
Tni Twenty Second. The Boston
rml stales that the "Democratic Na
tional oommilteo will celebrate tbt 22d
of February In an appropriate manner
by assembling to consider the policy of
tho organisation with reference to the
future. Wo trust that tbe spirit of the
man who owned the little hatchet will
inspire them, and we believe that trust
will not bo betrayed."
Exactly. "Now if you'vo got any
feeding you want done I'm your man,"
earnestly exclaimed lbs tramp who
was at the back door of a Danburj
bouso, Thursday, looking for work and
tho snow four feet docp.
a. Jiar"
About tub IIiumt ISifc Delaware
sod Bhoda Island ara lb sleeve-but-ton
of tba Western Hemisphere.
OUR SCHOOLS
In Alii tml.rm.tnl ltil-M la ttftl Itlli'r .
UeWiii,..gIT;rn71ukeilasouri;oiiiinoi. ';
.. , , " . . .. m
School system. In point ol expense, . ..
it is the most burlhensomo portion
our Government, and it looks now
though some ol our prominent cdiic.-:
tors were about half craxy on thos.ib. j
jeevu, o..ueu.m, noin u.u -j .1 I ol liers il is thought that ihe adiullils
aru " puddling the canoe." The editor: iruiin elmiises this plan to revenge it-
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ol the Philadelphia Record, whoso boud
seems to bo level on this point savs:
' The proposition of Governor Roll,
inson that the Stale ouuhl not to in-o-
vide the - higher" education lor the '""" '"''.' ",u V " 7"",.
lew children ilesirou. of scholuMio at- tltlliuN-W . and Philadelpl ia ap
tainmenu. I... already caused discus "-? hu7 1mw," ".' ' ' '''
sion in the New York Wlalure, and ! ""''l H
the question promises to receive unus
ual uiluiition in bulb New York city
und Stale. In the city there is au In
sliliitiuii known, an Iho College ot the
City of Now Yurfc, whtoh exists lor no
other purpose than to supply facilities
tor securing a so-called ucauemiu cilu
culion lo a few young men. The ed
ucation to be supplied from taxes
should be limited lo that which ia
clearly usul'ul unit necesnury to men ol
every station and degree in life. Any
other system is, to that extent, Sucial
nun. It is no part of the proper bui.
tiese of tbo Slate to supply a man with
schooling tiulculutud Ui lit him for the
work ol a lawyer or a doctor, or uny
other vocation in Ide. Logically lob
lowed out, the proHiliou that every
person is entitled lo a ' high " school
education ut the bauds of tho Stale
will lead to a demand thai tho Stale
take charge of the entire work of so
ciety. A corollary to the proposition
uas already become fart ul the leuis
latum of the country in tho adoption
of the principle thai the Government
should provide plenty of work ut good
wages for me mooring man. in tin
connection, it has been interoshini' to
note bow .Mr. llendrick B. Wi-igh'. has
been scored lor advocating Govurniuuiil
loans to wurkingmun by journuls that
al the same lime demand the eontinu
unco of our absurd navigation luws,
on I lie assumption that the slim build
eis and ship carpenters must bu cared
lur. Mr. Wright is more lugit-ul than
they, in that he sees no dilluruuce, us
a question tulher of morals or expedi
ency, oeiwoeli u i reel ami indiroei ap
propriations lor the benefit of pnvi
lodged classes. Again, he is more kou
est than they, in that bu is unwilling
lo leave llio workinincn in the lurch
utter he has promised tbem tho most
ample protection agulnst thai "pauper
tatior " ot Europe.
Tho application of a false principle
hi uuvisuig a sciieme ol piiDio educa
tion has resulted in schools ailupted lo
the vvuiiis of the lew rather than tbe
needs of tbe many. The primary
sellout, insteaii ol neing what Us name
signifies, baa come lo bu u preparatory
instiiutiuii tor mini auminauin tu, anil
graduation al, the " hiili " school.
while its only proper mission, teachini!
ol tbe elements of learning, is lell to
full into neglect. The plain it judged
by its loliugu and flowers rather than
hy its fruit. So lar has iho pursuit of
error gone thut tho people ol ibis good
city have been asked lo admire and
applaud while the iiainrm of "high"
school graduates are called off, when,
al the same time, thousands of ignor
ant children havo been clamoring in
vain lor mo menus ut acquiring tho
rudiments of knowledge. And this ia
called a " school system." to be com-
mended for the period and noiseless
working; of its intricate machinery !
Surely, wo are upon limes when things
are nut what they seem: when ve-
nooring deceives, eyes tbat once were
critical, and fictions of the mind are
substituted for realities,
Alt'siso His Family. Tbo editor
of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has taken
to lecturing the mumbera of his politi
cal family, lie aaye : "If Iho Lcgisls-
tin u shall approve the bill wbicb pro
poses to muko tbo people of the wbolo
Slate pay for tho ilunuigo done by the
Pittsburg mob, the taxpayers, while
they are taking the money out of their
pockota, will probably have a fresh In-
duoemcnt tu ask themselves whether
it is not worth whilo to try to send to
Ilarrishurg, to represent them, mon
of a rather hotter oualitv than
they have beon accustomed to chooso.
They will simply pay, under the com
pulsion of iniquitous measure, the pen
ally of levied their political duties.'
The editor in question should havo de
livered bimsolt something after this
manner last Summer, then bo would
havo had the carl behind tbe borso,
and might have done some effclive
work.
All Convicted. It is lesa than a
year since tbe great Glasgow, Scotland,
Bank failed. Tho President, Cashier,
threo tellers, four clerks and five di
rectors were all convicted, last week,
of fraud, theft and embeulement, and
were sentenced to eight months' impris
onment. The sentences imposed caus
ed much surprise rn account of thoir
leniency. Lord Justice Moncrieff, the
piesiding Judge, in passing tbe udg
ment ol tho court, said they consider
ed tliti circumstance that the prisoners
had not fali-ified the accounts lor their
own personal benefit, but in the ni
tuken idea that it was for the public
good.
Model Statesmen. For ways that
are dark, and truks that are mean, re
oommend us to a modern Radical states
man. For instanco Conover, the Flo
rida carpet bagger wbo was induced by
John Sherman to vote for confirma
tion ot tho New York Custom officers
on the promiao of future patronage, is
expected to ho made minister lo Italy
Tho experienced and accomplished Mr.
Marsh ia to mako way for the Florida
a -allawag, bet auao tho latter voted to
sustain the civil service ideas ol Hayes
and Sherman, while Marsh happens lo
boa relative of Edmunds who voted
with Conkling. Great is civil service
reform.
The Tana Story. Radical Con-
gressmon complained wonderfully be
cause the Democrats in South Caro
lina, last fall printed their tickets on
red tissue paper, and thereby "inlinii
dated the intelligent (?) colored voter,'
A Charleston printer turned up before
tbe Teller Committee tho other day,
now investigating these facts, who
swore that ho printed thousands of
thoso same tickets lor Radicals, He
swore that be primed lea thousand
tissue ballots for W. M. Mackey, a Re
publican candidates for Congress, who
appears to bare boen beaten al bia own
game. So we go.
Gxttino Ready. Senator Hall, of
Elk county, has introduced a resolution
in the Statu Senate fixing upon the
last Thursday of March for tha ad
journment of tho Legislature. Tho
Senator ha lots ol work at home, and
w bare no doubt he would like lo
have Iho privilege of looking alter It
Qut there are too many In the Legis
lature wbq have nothing of lb kind
op band, awi w will not be surprised
il tbe bod ut sntil June.
'THhrrilLAflKU'inAArrOIM -
AIESTH. I
-U'wUtV. .!' .-omu..nl Ui tn
- fusinnud by the rluinucB luutlc in the
, . , ' j,, jllK, UHl
Frhlav. Bv soma the uctmn of the nd-
uiiiiisiralioii in the mallei' of these ap.
puii.tiiicnts i attributed lo the nnxieiy
"'' M'- "")' t-'l"1'1'' to
TU'MI m .Vui"iiiwi ' ' J
Lull Uhiii Senator Cameron lor lukiug
wiin LonKiing hi iiiu miu sii..g
,v"r luu ". I
1 ol " ! ' """ -' "
is now generally understood that Mr.
Uuyes' Secretary of the Trouaury
means to make himself the Republican
nominee for President in 1880. Ho-
conlly the Grant movement began to
ilev
fulop Biimcieni strengin lo givu me i
wily Sherman serious alarm. Iheeleo-
ion ol Conkling, Cameron aim Jiogan,
lo thu United Slates benate, with lhe,i11(:u hone I
threatened return ot C handler ol .Michi-;
gun lo tbe scat which It was believed
Christiancywotildsoonresign.aronieves
n the Dolilical chess-board li'oin the
Grant side which Mr. Sherman found
il necessary tu check-mate. Tho coun
ter moves ho boa madu consist in the
appointment, uf persons lu till the Fed
em! office in New York and Philadel
phia wbo will not use their plaues to
promote tbe nomination ol Grant but
who on tbo contrary may be relied on
to bend the holy ooinmandinenls of tuej concor,ied, they bavu forgotten more
oivil service rufos Just to tho extent ol lt)un t,at "Solomon's" narrow eon
weuiing Sherman delegates Irom their m.t0( ku will ever permit him U
respective States to the Kepublican
Nutional convention. While il may be
truo that Mr. Hayes took malicious
pleasure in removing Senator Camer
on's lailhtul fugleman, lliestund, from
the naval office, and while be may have
Irnen actuulud by motives of charity in
appointing Hailrauft to the Philadel
phia posloftice, llio man behind the
throne, the Mcphialopbelos of the
whole busings, wbo prumpted und
pushed on thu appointments, had bis
uwu purposes to subserve in the mat
ter. Liilllu doea John Sherman care
for the petty ebullitions of temper which
have characterized the conduct of
Hayes ill reganl lo appointments. Less
null is bu troubled by claims ol candi
dates lor office based un emptiness ol
purse. He is as cold blooded as the
anemone of the ocean depths and like
thut floral gem of thu briny deep only
opens his tentacles in order to minisUir
10 his own selfishness. He bas used
ihe Hayes administration to carry out
his ambitious views not only in reaped
ot appointments to office but in shap
ing the details ol ils financial policy.
11 will be lou nd in duo lime that the
most powerful bunking institutions in
New York and ulsuwhere will actively
ubet the movemeiil ill favor of Sher
man lor President. Indeed Shermuii
is the only prominent cundidntu for
nomination by tbe Republicans who
will bu able lo control the momed in
lorest against Guncrut Grunt. With
iho Federal ollicu bidders und the
banks arrayed in bia luvor other aspi
rants for the honor ot a Republican
nomination fur the Presidency tnsy
well bo up and doing if they are to be
considered in the race. At present
Sherman haa them all at decided dis
advantage. Jlarrisburg Patriot.
Liberal Legislation. Wo notice
that Mr. Jones, one of tho Senators
trota Philadelphia, haa introduced
bill in the Slate Senate which provides
that in convictions of crime or misdo
meaner, where the minimum umount
ol punishment ia within the discretion
of tho Court, it may enter ol record an
order suspending sentence for an in
definite time and may discharge the
prisonor on his going bail to reappear
for sentence wben called upon. We
may be a littlu too enthusiastic on this
point, but it seems to us tbat there
never was a more equitable proposition
submitted upon this point ot our Juris
prudence
A "Government Victory." The
impending conflict between Hayes and
Roscoe Conkling, the Radical Senator
from New York, was closed out on
Monday. Thirty-three Senator voted
to confirm Hayes' appointments of
Morrelt and Burt a Custom House
Collectors, and Conkling and twenty-
three others opposed 'the Government.'
1 ho deloat ia a bad one lor Conkling,
and brings but little credit to tbe con
duct of the de facto government. Il is
truo Conkling will last for six years,
and Hayes only fur two; bat tow for
mer has lost all his local prestige which
be may never recover.
A HluuLira Weiidind. A telegram
from Niles, Michigan, lo thu Chicago
Intrr Ocean, on the 4th, says i "A sud
den wedding in high liJia took place in
tbia city to day, the kigls contracting
parties being ex-Governor Miller, of
Minnesota, a widower ot sixty winters,
and Miss Bessie MacgofRn, nieco of ex
Governor Beriab Mavcgoflln, of Ken
tack, a lady of twenty sum men). Miss
Macgoflin was accompanying Uorcrn-
ur Miller from New York to Minnesota
to be governess in hie ftimlly, and tbe
maloh was made oa tbe cats. Tin
ceremony wa performed by the Rev
Dr. McMurray."
Too Late I Tho editor ol' t he Venan
go Spectator chides his neighbors in this
appropriate way : "Tho producer ore
now busy entering their protest to our
Republican Stale Legislature against
the threatened tax on petroleum. The
proper timo to enter an effective pro
test was Inst November, and on the
fifth day thereof, from 7 a. m. to T p.
m., but the men who now speak for tbe
wbolo oil region then played into the
hands ol tha Cameron ring and lurnod
their backs on tho mon who had bat
tled lor the rights of the oil mon. This
may be an unpleasant statement, but
il is tho truth."
Cam net Rascality. If Tynor and
Chandler really meant lo sell two In
dian appointments for the benefit of
their campaign fund, and did it, they
were, aa Cabinet Minister, guilty of
corrupt practices. If they deliberately
chose lb word "Indian agent' aa a
cipher to cover aa innocent transac
tion they were fool. Nobody ever
accused Zacb Chandler of being a fool,
and tho lato Senator Morion consider
ed Tyner a particularly shrewd fellow.
A Good Cabo. The re-election ot a
lot of old castaway Radical (inner,
to tbe United State Senate, bas caused
the Washington Pott to publish tbe
lollowing excellent canl : "All' for
given To W. W. Belknap, James
Harlan, 8. O. Pomoroy : Como back,
all has beon torgivon.
John Lou an,
Z ten Cuanlihb,
Matt Carpenter;.
. j t- -i -i
"Conkllpg'i overwhelming dyfct,"
I tbe way everv body call It sine
Uayet pat but ma Into tba New York
Coatom House, and put Conjoin j'l out.
I. KIT t: II mu.n JU.t fun.v
SHIP.
Nkir MiLLruuT, Pa., Vol. i; :S7!.
KuiToa liKfiiliLicAN Dear Sir : 1
looking over tho punt history of Clear
field county, anil n
vunceiiieiil in all
field euuuty, and noting iu steady ed-,
M . i . i
priritlu ami punuc
hjii.ine, I ulieii wonder hn
ever possible for II to att:
kv il was
attain to its
present prosperous coiiiiiuuii wuntiui
the presence and influence of that
"Solomon" editor and publinher, (don't
know how about the proprietorship),
it i hut mil en t sliuel. tbe Clearlield Cit-
IM - VnUM llWIWItlua twannnw
-' A.moi'ltii n nus ..ee-. .
only about lour .uoi.in-, ue i.us aire.uj
discovered a "Court House King, anil
now threaten lo annihilate all llio
ullleiula of the eoliiiiy. lie even pro
poses to enter the Unitd Stutcs Sen
ate and lake the scalp of one ot Penn
sylvania's brightest sous Hon. Will
A. il ui nee. &n uiwnur wuum nut-
. .. . , ., .
MF..II 1 - . I I.I ..... CO
uruny su pposo tuiii, in me uniiiiiuuuu
of thWiLon," Bigler, Wallace and
l'utuin havo never amounted lo any-
thing but boys, and have been playing
m mu(.uuddlea thuir whole life-lime.
ia i, u ondor that tlioro is a
u vti,itu,r ansa oiiui u w a -
left in Fielding's body lor
on" lo t.iek at Ho has
t,j8 '-Solomon'
uulu( 0
W(JIUr ,jsin: (:,, (his "Solomon1
ever lav down to neaceliil slumbers
without being in tour of tbat dreaded
criticism so long as they are competent
to crilicibo, but as a ruin, so long us
there am old dogs about, pups should
refruin from harking. Biglur, Wallace
hi.t UM . ii fi '
and Palton nre old and well ruspectod
,,:,, ,.,. an inini..c j.
learn. I confine tbat it ia almost
a shame to notice the littleness with
which this man, John R. Bixier, assails
our good citisens; but there are times
when forbearance becomes a crime,
and hence we must meet that crime
and hurl it Irom our midst. Reynolds
ville did so, and so must wo.
All that I demand of "Solomon" is
to keep within tbe limits of truth, and
ul least ball' rusjiecl. and then he can
remain among us as long as ('base and
Krutzer see proper to support him. I
do not tear Ins "Greenback humbug,"
at all. Yours, Ac,
Improvements Wanted. Wo notice
that a delegation ol Philadelphia inert-hunt",
headed by Messrs. Hand, Win-
sor and Wright, repaired to Washing
ton lust Thursday, and called Uhjii
Senators Wallace and Cameron, culling
tbeir attentiun lo tbe fuct that the
commercial interests of that city de
manded tho iinprovument of thu Dela
ware river, and the delegation asked
that a liberal appioprialion he made
lor that purpose.
Button's Feat. Mr. Paul Boyton
is courting notoriety by inertsnig bis
body in a rubber suit and paddling
himsult down the Allegheny river,
Irom Oil City to Pittsburgh. Tbe
river was pretty well covered with
slush ice, which adds to the zest of tbe
performance. Mr. lloylon ought to
bo taken out of the waler and sot ut
some useful employment.
The public war over tbe New York
Custom House settled, there are sign
of a private war between Sherman and
Arthur, Shermaa charging the ex
Collector witb dishonorable conduct in
publishing hi privato letters. Tbe
Republic will be grateful if Mr. Arthur
will attend to his profession and Mr.
Sherman tu bis finances. What the
country needs is a rest.
Thu Graphic haa a full page cartoon
which represents a flag bearing the
the i ascription "politics" being hauled
down from the New York Custom
House, and one bearing the legend
" buaiDOss" i going up to take its
place. Uncle Sam stand by making
some approved observation.
ay aw
Gettinu Married. Tba Luzerne
7nioa and the Wilkes Ilurro Leader
have consolidated, and the Sunbury
Gazette and tbe American havo also
gone to housekeeping together. Hard
times compel people to pool thoir in
terests in Oiso of thia kind.
Kentucky Stock. An exchange
say: Four of tbe new United State
Senators-elect Messrs. Vest of Mi
souri, Call of Florida, Walker oi Ar
kansas and Jones of Louisiana are
ea-residenta of Kentucky, and are all
Democrat too.
Spite Dot). One of tho members
in tho House, from York county, has
introduced a bill in thu Legislature, to
fuio and imprison all owners of Spit
dugs. The fine to be not less than $10,
and the imprisonment not to exceed
three months.
Tbe Grand Juryol the District of
Columbia refused to find a truo bill
against the fiery U union for Bending a
challenge to Columbus Alexander.
The re is no harm in daring a man who
won't fight.
A War Relic Stonewall Jackson's
old sorrel war-bon-o, which bore bia
muster under the moon on tbe fatal
night at Cbancelloraville, is still living
at the Morrison homestead, in Lincoln
county, North Carolina.
A Mistake. The editor ol tbe
Whitehall Timet taye: "Tbemsnwbo
wrote tbat "nothing wa impossible"
never tried to find the pocket in his
wife' dross when it was hanging np in
a clothes press.
An Illinois cotemporary suggest
that Mrs. Logan, instead ol the Gener
al, should have been elected to tbe Sen
ato from Illinois, as she is the smarter
man of the two.
Gen. Butler -believe both parti are
going to destruction a fast a possible ;
and a be doesn't happen to belong lo
either, tha Buffalo Exvrtst thinks
ihero I probably no doubt of it.
A bill is belore th Ohio Legislature
to authorise tbe us of a bell punch
ballot box. Tbe Legislature baa a
keen sense of the needs ol Ohio politic.
MacMahon ought to come lo thia
country and travel until 1880. By
that time the movement would be
booming, and he might jump right in
to Gravy' shoe.
John Geia, a wealthy farmer In
Auglaiae county, Ohio, was feeding
pigs wben a ram came np and butted
him in the back till be died.'
Idea are Imperishable ; word, like
the pulsations of tbe air that transmit
them, ar evanescent.
Qejaonl b barman ia oa a (oar of
1.
peotlon in Georgia.
SOUR CIPHERS.
I
York Inhane and
When the Now
its MMilcJerati 'i' 'iKilorwj: " '" n" j wiieii tiieio will he a Jaeiiiw-raiie ins
investigation of the eipher dispatches juiily ot seven, do the cumu tiling re
ihey could hardly havo imagined lliali (U t.a0 Hl,, r Bl,ui Hutk-rY Tho
" Tl t r T ,v I b. T , " V ""Vtr
vieii a "null on the first tlat ol lhuii.ytiir.-a K.ie i hoieiu t undr i ... i
examination. Not Mr. Tilden, whom j
they have sought to cover with oppi"-
briiim, bill two uf Grunt's ettbiiiet illl
curs, Chandler and Tynor, aro iliscov-j
creit lo have been in telegraphic cor
riiHpuiiilonco, the onjeoi ni wnn-ii
lo corrupt tho election lu luiliiina
through the sulo of federal offices. In
limit agencies were put up for sale us
a means of raisuiu: campaign lilinN,
anu tuia siiaiiicnH iaei, in piutv.i i-.-i
telegraphic dispulcbes uf thu two
., : . . ..I I,., II,,.
cabinet ministers. Ol the vat nni'S
ol dispatches uf this character of 1870
the Democratic ciphers were carelull.v
ollectcd anil sent to the A uw ioik
...
VVitune fur narlisan uses while the re-
, . . ,.,,, i i,
1 - " ' "
....J ....... ,
id fraud and corruption from coining
to light. Bullock, olio of thu ugeu'.s
to seixu und destroy thu Uiipulilii uii
. , , , . ., ,
'l'. '"1."1 ut V,' '1
" reward ol bis services. But the
contents of these dispatches w hich Mr,
'"""'"' "uu"" "u "
Mr. Floyd Grant, a confidential clerk
il W l'"'.,n ''1
lies VUrV UlSlllli liy lir me leu ft. ,,
corronpondcnco between Chandler and
Tyner. Tho latter telegraphed lo
Coandler on the ove of the Octobur
election in Indiana that he must make
two appointments in the interior do
purtniunl, lor which live thousand dol
lars would bo paid, and that the money
must bo deposited in Now York so
thut it could be drawn in Indianapolis.
Chandler answered tbat he had done
as directed and tbat tho money had
been deposited. It was further staled
in Ihe telegrams that the money w as
to be used tor election purposes. The
meaning ol tin transaction is that
these positions in tho interior depart
ment were to bo sold ; thai tho person
named would pay twenty live huinlred
dollars each fur them, and Chandler
must collect thut amount ot iiionoy
and send it to lndjana to bo u-ed in
the campaign. One Cabinet Minister
made the appointments and thu oilier
acted as broker tor ibe sale. It appears
from an admission of Mr. Tyner thai
the positions were Indian ugencies.
and when the immcino fortunes have
been made by Indiun agents tin stnull
salaries are taken into conider.iliim
the price ol five thou-emd dollars for
tho two agencies is extremely low.
Tbia is tho first nugget that has
been discovered in tbe investigation of
tbo cipher dispatches. Anticipating
investigation and probable discovery
of the most industrious effort wei'ii
made by the Republican managers to
destroy theevidenue. Mr. Tyner made
application to the President of tho
lelegrnph Company for permission lo
withdraw certain dispatches ana the
originals were returned to bim. If;
they were not compromising in their I
character why this anxiety lo destroy I
them ? The evidence elicited snows;
that all the campaign dispatcho wore
gathered together and sent to the
Senate, where they were carefully
overhauled by Morton and bis clerk.
Such a were thought to be useful as a
means of attack upon the Democrats
alter tbe 1 residency wus stolen Irom
them were industriously collated for
tho New York Tribune while the
Republican ciphers wero dcsiroycd
throuirb the agency of General Brady
of the Postoffico Department, Evans,
a Republican ex member ol Congrcsi.
trom lnuiana. ami duiiojk, .Mor
ton'a confidential clerk. When il was
believed that all proof of Republican
rascality in the purchase ot the lie
turning Boards of Louisiana and
Florida wero removed by the whole
sale destruction ot telegrams the 7'n
bune opened up it revelations ol tbu
Democratic ciphers. This assurance
that there was no danger that the
cipher ot Chandler, lyncr and thu
rest ot the -conspirators in the great
electoral Iraud would ever return lo
plague tbeir authors Is what Inspired
tho boldness of the Tribune. It felt
perfectly safe in translating Democratic
cipher and giving them any desired
perversion, with the knowledge that
Bullock and Brady and Evuna had put
a match to all that could compromise
the Republicans. But tho lailhtul
memories of trustworthy telegraph
operators which registered ibceviiloiicv
ol the iniquity ol thu Kepuiilitiin con
spirator were left out of the calcula
tion. Harmburg Patriot.
WILL THE PLOT SUCCEED t
Tbo Radical plot to capture ihe
United Stale Senate of 181 by a
bold roup, I pretty well laid Dare by
ibo minority report of the Committee
on rrivilege and hlucttons lu the
Duller Corbin case. There is no pro
tome of reason lor reopening the que
tion of Senator Build's right to bia
seat. He has been adjudged entitled
to il by a voto of tbe Senate, and bas
taken bi sest. 1 he only excuse tor
it ia that the Radicals mutt have the
Senate in 1881 by fair means or foul,
and the most ready plan is to unseal
Mr. Butler and seat the carpet-bagger
Corbin. The Senate after the next
fourth of March will stand lorty-two
uemocrala, thirty-three Kcpublicani,
and one Independent (Senator Davis
ot Illinois), but should Corbin he
seated it will aland forty ono Demo
cral and thirty lour Republicans.
Now in 1881 tho terms of Randolph,
Eaton, Kernan, Wallace and Thiirmun,
all Democrats, will expire, with the
strong probabilities of Republican suc
cessors. This would, if Corbin be
seated, make tbe Retire stand thirty
nine Republican and thirty seven
Democrats. The Democrats on the
other hand would probably gain a scat
in electing jirnre a (urcessor, which
would mako the Senate a lie thirty
eight to thirty-eight, with Senator
Uavid Davis on the lenco. This la the
objective point of the Radical strategy,
ana the re-opening ol the Butler I ur-
bin caso which baa been decided and i
now ret adjudieata, in only on the
ground that tho Republicans hare jusi
now a majority in the Senate and can
perpetrate this wrong to hold on to
power, senator Hill in hi minority
reKrt fur the majority report ol the
committeo favors sealing Corbin
say: ".To charge ot Iraud bos been
made against tbe former derision. No
allegation tbat testimony was before
excluded which ought to bave been
admitted, or that testimony wan ad
milled which ought to havo been ex
cluded ; no request by either of Ibe
parties to produoe testimony has been
denied, and oo pretense that testimony
then offered and excluded can now be
produced. Tbe jurisdiction l the same,
th panic ar the same, the subject
matter of contest Is the same, the facta
are the same. The petition of Corbin
ia a mere naked proposition that the
Senate at a subsequent session ahall re-
vote on tbe Identical questions, lacts
and issue on which tbe Senate vou-d
and decided at a former evasion" Now
all tbat the Republican need do is to
vol lor the majority re.rt or the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
and ao'acat Corbin. Tbe abornc of
Conover who voted for Butler be
tore and th presence of Sharon w ill
giv tbe Republican the necessary
strength provided the lull pari)
strength can be counted on to pvrpr
visiw auis wrung.
mil alter all would it be a wmnir
ithout a remedy T Woald not Ihe
Mcnata by reoiiening the question of
th Butler Cor Wn coutest, establish a
preoetieat by hivl it eeekt be re
opeeed again t II tbe 8eat oboe Id
now, upon praatNiaa tha nam) tacts
whicli it adjucuud belore, reverse n
decision, wny cotiia not thu Ncnaie un
mediately utter the fourth of lUr, 1,
atituiion tho judge of the election n,
(itniHealioii or lis own members, ami
,on, n dei-iiion ihi-re is nu appeal,
'j'(lllt t, Incoming Democratic riu.uuj
wj IUVU ,,u numerical power lu do
this is iioyonu ui-puto. j hut u, Ul,
doing the wrong to Senator Butler and
tu iSmlli Carolina, it would bavu the
noiiil support of the country is equally
lire. This should muku Iho liudiiuU
l ., - I I .,
puuu mm iiiiiih over lue tiling oat-o
IMUI,,. HnUimore Sun.
fUH CIPHER DISPATCHES.
Tbo inquiry into the mutter of tU
cipher dtpulchcs bus already uiiruv.
ed the mystery of their publication.
A greut buU-li of dispatches, some
thirty tliou-und in number, were de
livered by the Western Uiii .ii Coin-
I hi ny to thu Senate ('oinmitlio nu
'nvileges ami Elections. Some one
in thu confidence of this roitmiilite
abxlracled a large number of ihe ulu.
gruuis an delivered, and they were
llien, ul'ler being copied and given iu
a city journal lur publication, plaed
secretly on General Butler's talile.
few of tbo dispulches wero carried off
by cerium ttepillilican olllcials who
feared they would bo criminated by
tbetn, und have never since been seen.
There mem to be no doubt that tbo
whole body of dipalches surreiideri-il
by the telegraph company lay iu luu
conimiltee loom tor several weeks, ue
Ovssiblu lo any one who wus on friendly
terms wilh llio Clerk of the CoiuiiiiUe,
Senator Morion's brother in-law, ami
Willi Ihe Messenger, u iiiiin liainisl
Bullock ; and ills equally clear thai,
in the whole buoinc, the lu-piiblii-uus
hud un udvunlugu lo which llicy were
nut entitled. Tiny could at will pult
oiil tttiil uiukeuwuy Willi iliu evident-?,
if such existed in the telegram, of an
inlrigiio lor stealing tho I'rcsideiiey,.
w hile lliey could manipulate all tele
grams Irom Democratic sources in any
way whatever likely to advance lln-ir
piirll-illi IlileleM. It Hill be dlltii-lilt,
if not imp-HMiile, lur the Cumimut-u
or its subordinate lu explain away the
dipuTuceful features ot this utterly in
tlftensitdo atl.nr.
But it will be even mute ilillii iill,
wo imagine, for the A Iminislralion tu
junlify iu action in appointing lo an
unpin tittil ( iiusulate Ibe poison wbo is
shown to have abstracted the ilia
patches. This man. Bullock, wu a
mere incetieiigcr to the Comitiiltee, of
ordinary attuitimonts and without
social standing, and yet ho was mads
Consul at Cologne, over tbo beads of
applicants infinitely bis superiors in
every particular. Why ? No po.ir.ihle
reason for so extraordinary an ap
pointment can be imagined than thut
he paH-ictl the damaging cipher tha.
paichi-8 from iho committee loom into
the hands of persons ublu w hen tiny
got them to make public use of them,
out uiiocouni not anoru to ou cnargui
wilh taking llicin themselves." And
this is a " lelorni " Administration,
which pretends lo make capacity and
integrity the standard of ull appoint
nicnl in Ibe consular ami diplomatic
service.
THE PLYMOUTU CHURCH.
A writer in the New York Herald,
who evidently has considerable admir
ation for tho Rev. Henry Ward Beech-'
or, has published a lengthy sketch of
the great Plymouth pai-tor, in which
he shows that in thirty years of intel
lectual luhor thu old gentleman has
earned nearly .2,1)00,000. A state
ment is given of llio earnings of this
monumouiul money-maker, liissulury
as a pastor for Ihe first ten years of
luhor is set down al tiO 000 ; tbo sec
ond ten years, fi 00,000; the third,
S.!00 000. 11 w lectures in thirty years
foul ii j) a profit of (170,000. His novel
of " Norwood " and " Life of Christ"
brought him $ 45,000 and his editorial
and journalistic work in thirty years
netted him $100,000. His receipts
(mm sermons, hymn books, weddings
and copyright of various kinds are
lumped at 1:10,000, while tbe grand
total is swelled by aid received during
bis celebrated coiilrover-y with Ttllon
to the extent uf (100,000. And yet
Mr. Boecher snys thai bread-aiid wa'er
diet is good enough lur poor men. Tho
Herald writer says thai the old gen
tleman bas spent his earnings freely.
He bus a small army ot relative de
pending largely on his bounty. So has
his wile. Fitther, mother, sisters,
bml hers, children, Iriends, patishioncrs
and stranger havo been, aru and ul,.
ways w ill lie recipients ot his gene.tw
iiy. lie owns a fair but not a tang.
n-licent house nn Columbia Uvighlai
and a hirin in I'eekckill. On ih littler
he has recently built for fiiesm:!! and
ull his wms, married und snire, a grand I
rividnicu tliul cost a fortune and so
long as he lives will be a resort lor
swarms of friends. I'is ittlcresl in Ihe
Christian Union is nut epeoiully valu.
able and, in fact, his one remunerative
property Is that from which all Ins.
money has been coined bis activoj.
fertile brain, backed by a slunly
physique that has endured a straits
greater than that ordinarily horns hy
a score ol men.
ilruf 3h'tft.srmtnts.
WANTED.
100,000 SHAVED SHIXCLES,
t B Oiinthon'i Oroearjr Ftort, tconl ftrtt,,
rw-rllt li. IV W.S If.
SELLERS' GOUGH SYRUP ii
Ovat I. earn, saw mim wa. tt u tha am sor
BaaliSH? 2-' '"""' -a-lIB. f ami t,
aa.KxaJ.B. aiut.u tbhiiitim li ku
WiaaawM. 11 a Imu la aaa fur Ae a rmtwra. ix-
lura rvmm.n.l IL J. .. Tot..., L.R l , lu,
aaia: -ll.j m, ,,,K.r koaa ihTf.." t I.
Siaaao, of BKn-, lis., al-a t. : "h ,ll mr
Mn..f,,,.. Tafcw aa ottha-t-t
mr. Oa rrnta. SB rraita. Bail ai-04) nrr bulll-.
.LhaUAstai at Ma, rr ntuomnk. r
for aak ty II. B. RoukaMa, CUarHala. fa.
CURES?!
HUMPHREYS'
HOMEOPATHIC BPEOTICS
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rwr amir h, all laraiaitlala.
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