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THUBSDAY EVENING. JUiT 29, 1880.
SckBix.
Mr. Schurz's speech at Indianapolis
lias been praised by the Republican
newspapers asa" masterly effort," a
" key note," and various ether things,
tee numerous te mention. It was in
reality a very geed presentation of the
Republican case, in polished phrases,
carefully liammered out in the closet,
by a civil service reformer, who, accord
ing te his own theories, was stealing the
public time in which te de it. But it
contained nothing new,and offered net a
single argument of legitimate force,
lie savs truly and this is one of the
great features of the speech that there
are elements in the Democratic party
which de net entirely agree with each
ether.. Rut these differences relate
chiefly te financial questions, and are
net likely te disturb the harmony of a
party whose sound deliverence in
national convention was made without
a single dissent. Mr. Schurz, however,
admits that the Republican party is
in very nearly the same condition in re
gard te the same questions, and we
can all remember the day, net distant
when Jehn Sherman himself was push
ing the Ohie idea, howling with Carey
ami Allen in the Greenback wilderness,
while Tilden, Bayard, and even Thur
inau were bravely upholding the metallic
standard.
Mr. .Schurz also presents a variety of
excellent reasons why a mere professional
soldier with no aptitude for civil affairs
should net be elevated te the presidency,
and he even had the extraordinary har
dihood te mention Gen. Hancock as fall
ing under this description. New, we
cheerfully admit that General Hancock
is a soldier a soldier se unlike Schurz
that we really de net wonder much at
the failure of the one te comprehend the
true character of tiie ether. If Han
cock's success in the Held is a reason why
he should net be elected te the presi
dency Schurz's brilliant failures render
him pre-eminently fit. Tlie here of Get
tysburg should by all means be thrust
aside for the turn-tail of Chancellors
ville. It must have been en that famous
field thai. Schurz, paddling along in the
mud amid the general rout of the
Eleventh corps, while Hancock with his
steady columns covered their flight,
made up his generous mind that the
man who steed between him and the en
emy was tee geed a soldier ever te be en
trusted with the presidency. Rut after
all Mr. Schurz should endeavor te under
stand that General Hancock is net pre
sented for the suffrages of the people be
cause he is a great soldier, but because he
lias shown himself a great patriot, with
thehighestqualitiesef a civil ruler dis
played under circumstances that tested
his application of the relations of civil
and military power.
Rut Mr. Schurz's most serious objec
tion te the success of the Democratic
party is that they would actually turn
the Republicans out of eflice; which
would be, se te speak, a wholesale viola
tion of these beautiful civil service rules
which were gotten up by Mr. Evarts and
himself at the request of R. R. Hayes.
This cogent argument will answer te
keep the Republicans in power a thous
and years hence just as well as it does
new. If anybody doubts that he ad
vanced it with the most imperturbable
gravity let him get the speech and read
it for himself. He will find that en this
point at least Schurz is in dead earnest.
He considers any proposal te turn Re
publicans out and put Democrats in asa
perfectly diabolical outrage. In anyone
but himself the ambition for eflice is an
offense net te be tolerated. He was, it
may be remembered, at the Fifth avenue
conference, for Tilden and reform in
1S75, but it required only the premise of
a seat in the cabinet te wheel him around
te Hayes and reform of another kind.
The tongue of a Hessian, like the sword
of a Hessian, is at the service of the high
est bidder. If this gallant soldier of for
tune, who fought briefly en both sides in
187(5, and remained with the party which
furnished the best pay and the snuggest
quarters, is following liis usual practice
in this campaign, he received at least
200 for his speech at Indianapolis de
nouncing the candidacy of the man who
held the enemy from his back at Chan,
cellersville.
Tun Democracy of Xew Yerk city
inaugurated the campaign for them
selves and the whole country last evening
with a splendid meeting, distinguished
by the immense attendance, the vigor of
the sieeclies and great popular enthusi
asm. Owing te some technicality with
which right-thinking Democrats can
have little sympathy, Tammany declined
te participate, but will ratify it in its own
way, and the rivalry of the two organiza
tions is expected only te swell the total
vote for the candidates whose election
they are both striving for.
Mr. Tilden presided last evening, as
was right and proper, and his presence
and speech give that prominence te the
fraud issue which it deserves in this
campaign, especially since Garfield
was one of the judicial commission
ers who decided for the wrong after he
has solemnly sworn te adjudge honestly
and impartially. His defeat and the
overthrew of his party will be as Mr.
Tilden says " retributive justice," and
unless their crime is "condemned by the
people signally condemned it will sub
vert the elective- system of government
of which we are se proud, and substitute
in its place the rule of a dynasty of office
holders holding en against the will of the
people."
After Mr. Tilden 's remarks upon tak
ing the chair, Mr. Randall made the lead
ing speech of the evening, a position
which was assigned him, no doubt, by
reason of his high official position, his
leadership in the economies and reforms
of a Democratic Heuse which
have made Democratic success possible,
and because of his position as the next
leading candidate at Cincinnati, when
the solid vote of his Pennsylvania friends
for Hancok made the latter's nomination
certain. His speech was earnest, forci
ble and statesmanlike, and we prefer te
delay its publication iu full until to
morrow, rather than detract from its
merits by making the abridgment which
its length would render necessary in
printing it te-day.
The letters of Seymour, McClellan,
Watterson, and scores of distinguished
Democrats throughout the country, and
the speeches of Gen. Ewing. Randelph,
Tucker, Senators Jenes and Jonas, and
ether men high in the party councils,
made the occasion a signally successful
opening of the campaign.
New for its real work.
TriB English government, which blew
Sepeys te pieces from the mouths of
cannon in India,has found like the acute
Frenchman who went out te hunt tiger
that the amusements of Asia arc net
altogether one-sided. Very fragmentary
information reaches Londen of the re
ported annihilation of Gen. Rurrews's
British brigade by Ayoob Khan's Afghan
army. The survivors who bring the
news straggle in in details which indi
cate that the reported massacre may
have been only a rout, and Gen. Prim
rose, who telegraphs that " we are going
into the citadel, " may have sought safe
ty before he was accurately informed
of the fate of his fellow soldiers. It
would be an awful thing, te bj sure, if
two or three thousand Christian English
soldiers had been murdered by the un
believing Afghans whose territory is in
vaded, and we see no reason te be
lievesuch a calamity has ecciwml. Rut
if, as appears likely, the British cause
has received a serious check iu Central
Asia, we trust it will remain checked
long enough for Christendom te pause
and seriously reflect for what England
with mere territory than shi" can rule
mere debt than she can pay, and mere
soldiers than she can feed, is trying te
tend her conquering arms among a peo
ple like the Afghans.
MINOR TOPICS.
Tun Richmond State has the utmost
confidence that the regular Democratic
electoral ticket iu Virginia can be elected
easily, in spite of all thai Mahone may
de.
Tun Detroit Free lrest declares that
" only ene heuse in a hundred in Chicago
is numbered se that they can be read at
night." " Ne wonder there are se many
divorce suits in Chicago," suggests the
Washington Star.
Tnn list of nanceck converts which we
print has some substance in it. By the
way, suppose some of our local Republi
can contemporaries give us the names of
the Democrats here who are going for
Garfield. Put up or shut up.
Wn are pained te learn that our unobtru
sive friend, Dr. Compten, having made
application te both the new political firms
organized in this county, for admission te
them as special partner, was net admitted
into cither. This was a serious oversight,
as Dr. C. could furnish a reasonable
amount of capital and invaluable experi
ence that would have niade Jiitti a useful
member.
UOSK A3U Ci.TEKVII.LAl:.
"On, caterpillar," said a re-
One lovely summer day,
" Tour constant eating drives me wild :
I wiiih you'd go away.
I really cannot see what ue
Teu and your kind can be ;
Yeu naught but mischief de. and :uv
Unpleasant things te see."
A moment after that saute re-e
Smiled en a butterlly
That stepped te show Ids rainbow ed whips
Ah be was passing by.
Oh, lfbhe only could have knew n
The pretty, dainty rose
lie was a caterpillar, tee,
Arrayed lu splendid clothe.-. !
Harp cr's Yeung Pceph:
PERSONAL.
The Rev. PniLLirs Brooks, of Bosten,
preached in the private chapel of Windser
Castle bofero Queen Victeria during morn
ing service of July 11.
Fourth street, Si. Leuis, is an histericaj
locality made se by the fact that the wed
dings of Grant and Hancock which oc
curred within its precincts.
Themas Hughes, author of "Tem
Brown at Rugby," is expected at Newport,
R. I., next month as the guest of Franklin
W. Smith, of Bosten.
Mrs. Hayes is seen going te Fremont te
put her remodeled house iu order for fu
ture residence. Her son, Webb Hayes?
will, it is said, become a merchant in Te'
lede next spring.
Dr. William Fawkes Lee, son of Chas.
B. Lee, West Chester, aged 23, died yes.
terday after a protracted illness. He was
a-young man of unusual premise, having
just been graduated as doctor of medicine
and a bright prospect of life seemed before
him. He had rare skill as an engraver of
medical subjects, and he had willingly
leaned his skill te assist his professors in
illustrating their work, but this weik
added te his studies overstrained his phys
ical powers and when sickness came he
was unable te combat.
The reports sent te America of the
suicide of Mrs. Annie Wetmeke, the di
vorced wife of a citizen of New Yerk, at
the residence of the divorced English wife
of the Lord Albert Pelham Clinten, in
Paris, are very freely and indignantly de
nied by her friends there. Especially im
probable are the stories of Anglc&y break
ing her heart by breaking his premise te
marry her, since under the deciec di voic
ing Mrs. Wetmere from her husband it
was legally impossible for her te contract
or fulfill any engagement of marriage
whatever.
An Atrocious Murder.
In Chatham, Tiega county, Mrs. Floyd
Whitney and- her mother-in-law became
involved in "an angry dispute ever some
trifling matter relating te domestic affairs.
The women became very angry and after
indulging in het words were en the point
of clinching ene another and coining te
blows. A. M. Stafferd was present and
stepped in between the two women te sep
arate them and quiet the disturbance.
Mrs. Whitney told her husband that Staf Staf
eord had struck her. He armed himself
with a club and followed Stafferd home.
He found him Bitting in a deer and went
up te him and struck bim a terrible blew
en the head with the club, knocking his
brains out and killing him almost instant
ly. Whitney, the murderers is only about
thirty years or age. ihe murdered man
is a brother-in-law of Mrs. Whitney.
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Terrible Hail Storm.
A hail storm near Steven's pond, Wis.,
en Monday covered the ground te a depth
of several inches with hail stones of unu
sual size, three efthe largest "weighing a
pound." Shingles were tern from reefs,
hay, grain, hop vines, and ether vegetation
were totally destroyed, and fowls, prairie
chickens and sheep were killed. The less
is estimated at 975,000,
STATS ITEMS.
Our total yearly experts of petroleum
run up te $40,000,000.
J. H. Brown, was appointed register
of Cambria county by Governer Heyt
yesterday.
Patrick Bulger, a miner, was killed in
the Hartferd colliery, near Wilkesbarre,
by the fall of top coal.
Adjutant General Latta orders the dis
haiulmcnt of a National guard company in
Eiieaud ene in Lawrence county, en the
ground of inefficiency.
Daniel Dietrich formerly from near
Pottsville has been found en the Gila river,
Arizona, with five pistol shots through his
chest ; cold blooded murder.
Governer Heyt appointed Hen. Charles
L. Iiailey, a trustee of the state lunatic
hospital te fill the vacancy in the beard
caused by the death of Win. Caldcr, esq.
Herman Hcuman, of Little Falls, N. Y.,
while walking with a lady was seriously
cut about the face with a knife in the
hands of Asa Creft, who was crazy with
drink.
The Western nail association met yes
teulay in Pittsburgh, and unanimously
resolved net te sell nails at less than $3.
The card Kite has heretofore been $3,25,
but sales have been made 15 te 25 cents less.
William Painter, of Franklin, was in
stantly killed by being caught in the ropes
and wound round the shaft of a bull
wheel. He was horribly mangled, no
was engaged in pulling the tubing at the
time. Edward Davis was assisting him
and was seriously injured.
The Grand View garden house en Du-
quesuc Heights, Pittsburgh, was destroyed
by lire last night. It was a popular sum
mer resort for beer-drinkers. Frem the
garden a magnificent view of the city and
surrounding country for miles could be
had. Hence it was the mere visited. The
lire caught in a small passage-way from
the upsetting of a lamp, and everything
was swept away.
lu the Delaware county contest for state
senator ever live thousand votes were call
ed out by the extraordinary contest against
Senater Cooper. He carried nearly the
entire popular vote, and already ever ene
hundred tint of a total of one hundred and
thirty-two delegates are known te be elect
ed in' his interest. He will probably be
reneminated unanimously in the conven
tion, his competitor, William B. Broomall,
having pledged himself and friends te sup
port the nominee.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The American pajtcr makers are in coun
cil iu Saratoga.
The Massachusetts state Republican
will convene Sept. 5, in Worcester.
Eddie, son of Cernell Brown, of Flush
ing, L. I., was drowned by falling into a
cistern, yesterday afternoon.
Baseball: At Springfield Cincinnati 4,
Nationals 3. The manager of the Roches
ter club is missing. Se is a sum of
money $100 belonging te the club.
The census of Minnesota is new complete.
The total population of the state is 780,
0T2, an increase of 340,300 since 1870, or a
little mere than 77 per cent.
Elisha Celeman was shot dead by Enen
Cress, in a quarrel in Emmanuel county,
Ga., en Tuesday. Cress's father was
wounded by Celeman before the latter was
shot.
Near Wilmington yesterday the express
train struck and killed a trackman, named
William Gallagher. He was about thirty
five years of age, unmarried, and almost a
stranger.
Three boys, aged about 12 years each,
went crabbing en Staten Island Sound and
have net been -heard from since. It is
feared that the beat was capsized by a
squall and the boys drowned.
The body of a well dressed man, with
the name " G. T. Silsby" marked upon
his linen, in old English text was found
floating in the i ivcr at Bayennc, N. J.,
yesterday.
Eight huckster, who were en a spree in
Wilmington, pounced upon a tramp and
threw him upon the railroad track, where
he remained insensible. The engineer en
au approaching train saw the man just in
time te save him.
A railroad car from Cincinnati, leaded
with sulphuric acid, was opened at Reck
land, III., last night and the dead body of
an unknown man was found in it. 1 he
'car had been five days en the track going
from Cincinnati.
Menree Robinson, awaiting execution in
the jail at Greenville, Ohie, attempted
suicide yesterday. He cut his threat and
aims with a broken knife blade and bled
profusely, but did net become uncon
scious. At the West Virginia Democratic state
convention yesterday among the prominent
strangers present was General Weaver,
presidential nominee of the Greenback
party. The resolutions reported endorse
the platform and principles of the national
convention. Cel. J. B. Jacksen, of Park
ersburg, was nominated for governor.
In Quincy, 111., yesterday, a lire broke
out at neon in E. C. Pfanschmidt's plau
ing mill in a manufacturing district, and
at 1:15 p.m. the mill was burned down
and Garner's governor works, Bennett &
Duffy's old foundry, Harris fc Becber's
tobacco works and ether smaller concerns
were burning. Pfanschmidt's less is $20,
000, uninsured, and the total less 100,000.
Insurance, 825,000.
In Patrick county, Va., Pink Dehart
met Ames Woelvinc en the read en horse
back, witii Mrs. Dehart behind him. An
altercation ensued between the men, end
ing by Dehait's sheeting Woelvine with a
revolver through the forehead and neck,
killing him instantly. Dehart then pre
cceded te Patrick court house and surren
dered himself te the officers of the law.
Improper relations between Woelvine and
Dehait's wife have been heretofore sus
pected by Dehart.
Mistaking Ills Wife for a Deg.
Ephraim Miller, of Hampton, Pa., has a
great terror of dogs. Recently he and his
wife were returning home from a neigh
ber's after spending the evening there.
The night was very dark. Miller stepped
te put up the bars of a fence around his
yard. Mrs. M. walked en toward the house
She were a white apron. When her hus
band started te fellow her he saw what he
supposed te be a big white deg running
along ahead of him. He shouted te his
wife te leek out for the deg. She became
frightened, and turned and ran toward her
husband. He could only see her white
apron, which he had taken for a deg. As
this came rapidly toward him he supposed
the deg was about te attack him. He
drew his revolver and fired. He killed his
wife.
A lg Haul.
The robbers of the Savings bank at Mid-
dletewn, Conn., took, in addition te the
$8,500 iii cash, already reported, ever $20,
000 in "geed bends," and $40,000 in
Seuth Carolina bends, which are net con
sidered of much value. The cash be
longed te the bank, the bends te indi
viduals. Couldn't Ilury Him.
William Thompson, being drunk, fell
off a perch and broke his neck, at Bergen
Point, N. J., en Monday night. His widow
notified the police, saying that she sup
ported the family by washing, while
Thompson spent his time in saloons, and
she had net money enough te bury him.
Preparing for Contempt.
Philadelphia Times.
The difficulty about the Republican
nomination for district attorney in Lancas
ter seems likely te get into the courts.
Then there will be something te talk
about.
FOB HANOOOK
WHY REPUBLICANS SO DtCLABE.
A Variety of KeaMes for Beacblus the
Small Concleiloa.
A colonel in the United States army,
who has been a Republican, wrote a letter
te Gen. Hancock of date July 3, 18S0,
from which this extract is made :
" I would recall te you a scene of the
war. At Warrenton, in 1862, the brigade
commanders and some of the regimental
commanders called upon veu te make
known te you the great dissatisfaction of
the troops at McCIellan's being relieved, l
was the spokesman. After stating the
situation you rese and said :
" 'Otentleraen. we serve a country ; we
serve no man.'
"reeling that veu are new the same
patriot you then were, should this nation
be placed in your keeping for a time no
man need fear for the result."
In Earnest.
Walter F. Halleck, a major in the army
stationed en the Pacific coast writes: "Frem
my knowledge of General Hancock I think
of him as the poet describes the true man
and soldier :
'The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving arc the daring.'
" I propeso te work en this coast and
wherever I can be most useful iu the cam
paign for the success of Hancock and Eng
lish. General Hancock will lie elected,
take his scat and lie the president of the
whole United States net a section of it.
He will receive a large majority of the
votes of all true soldiers these who have
sense enough te realize that the war is
ever and desire te bring about that friend
ly feeling between the sections se necessa
ry in order te have a united country in
fact as well as in name. Hancock clubs
are organizing rapidly all ever this coast
and I certainly believe the Pacific states
will all be carried by him. I will be cast
before the election anil home in time te
vote the Democratic ticket this year."
One of the " Old tiuard."
Jehn T. Leng, the most intimate friend
of Grant in the West, and a leading St
Leuis Republican, in an interview with si
correspondent has said : " I shall vote for
General Hancock, and believe he will be
elected. I thing he has the qualifications
te make a geed president. He will have
the geed sense te surround himself with
the right kind of advisers. One principal
reason why lam against Garfield is that
he has already shown his intention te be
associated with at least two men for whom
the ucpubhean party has the least pessi
ble use Schurz and Sherman. Almest the
first thing Garfield did after his nomination
was te take a long carriage-ride with
Schurz, a man devoid of all political prin
ciple. The real cause of Schurz's hostility
te Grant is this : When Schurz was sena
ter he asked Grant for 105 appointments
in twelve months, from foreign missions
down. He get eighty-three, but made
himself the enemy of Grant because he
didn't get everything he asked for. I have
never heard Grant discuss Hancock save
as a general, and in that respect he al
ways speke well of him. I am a Republi
can still. 1 have been in correspondence
with many political and personal friends
respecting the political situation, and I
shall vote for nanceck."
A North Carolina Republican.
The Raleigh Daily News has had an in
terview with Mr. W. A Guthrie, a premi
nent lawyer of Fayetteville and one of the
most prominent and influential el the
younger Republicans of North Carolina,
whom his party had been ready te nomi
nate for governor or for Congress. He
says he will vote for and support Han
cock. Further he says: "I believe new
the Southern Democrats are heartily sick
of sectional strife and mean in geed faith
te yield a hearty obedience te the national
authority ; and the election of Hancock by
the co-operation of the national Deme
cratic party will be conclusive proof that
the Seuth is new as loyal as the North. I
don't believe that any man could he found
se stupid as te doubt Hancock s loyalty,
and I am sure that the Union in his hands
would be safe. I think there is special
necessity just new of having sectionalism
abolished and the 'bloody shirt' elimin
ated from our politics. The development
et our material resources and the pros
perity of the country can never be pro
moted by sectional strife. Se long as the
North believes we arc disloyal, whether it
be true or net, we can't expect capital
ists te come here and help us te rebuild
our waste places, i noticed a day or
two age in the News that a Rhede Island
youth was actually afraid te come te Ra
leigh, the capital of our state, te attend
Judge Streng's law school, because his
friends at home were apprehensive of his
personal safety. I believe that General
Hancock is a man of pure private charac
ter! and I knew he was a gallant soldier
We need a man as president of unimpeach
able private character te inspire confidence
at home, and a soldier of national reputa
tien te command the respect of foreign na
tions. General Garfield may be a pure and
upright man, but I am afraid there is some
truth in what has been said about his con
nection with the DeGelyer pavement.
Credit Mebilierand legislation of a disrep
utable kind, nanceck has none of that
sort of thing te answer for. As for Gen.
Garfield's military record, I never heard
much of that until since his nomination,
and his friends say he retired from the
army before the war ended and was con
tent te exchange the epaulets for a seat
in Congress.
I have always been a Giant man. Though
I voted for him twice, I never held any
office under his administration nor asked
him for any. I don't aspire te any politi
cal office new, and what I desire above all
things te sec is a reunited country with all
political tricksters and machine politicians
put in the background."
Anether Hancock Republican.
Gee. Wiikcs'H Letter te William 51. Hall, I'ari-s
July 18, 1880.
Garfield pleased me because his name
rese upon the collapse of a horrid spectre
which had frightened the ceuntty te its
very marrow. ; but nanceck fills the bill
an honest soldier who knows nothing but
his duty, and will be sure te leave the peo
ple, unhampered by " policies," te their
own free will. That is the true theory of
the presidential institution.
I have been hankering te vote the Dem
ocratic ticket for ever ten years past, be
cause it is a fixed principle with me that
no party whatever is fit te wield the gov
ernment, its army, and its purse consecu
tively for ever ten years ; certainly net for
twenty. Parties, like certain dishes, need
te be turned ever once in a while te suit
the public palate, nay, the public health,
and heaven knows our gorged and loath
ing country needs a change at present.
But the management of the Democratic
party has been se incompetent for the last
ten years, se confounded with cusscdness
in its leaderships, that I felt forced, in
spite of my principle, te adhere te the
mere respectable rogueries of the Puritan
Republicans.
Hancock, however, fills the bill. He is
"a bold soldier boy, " with a clean name ;
and though since Andrew Jacksen the mil
itary idea has net been a Democratic fancy
it is net for the Republicans te come out
of their hotbed of sabres te reproach us
with it new. They surely cannot clamor
with success about the Mrs. Surratt per
formance of Hancock's bounden duty.
That necessary tragedy has been sufficient
ly discounted by applauding stalwarts;
has always proved te be one of the most
telling appeals te Republican patriotism
during the last four presidential cam
paigns : and I am much mistaken in mvi.
timate of human nature if the same pain
ful incident, with an honest but sorrowful I
soldier as its central figure, does' net again
powerfully influence the unpelitical por
tion of the American people.
I knew Hancock, and I like him. He is
a man of sound ability, and will wear well;
and though, as you knew, I never fancied
West Point much, I must bear it this im
portant testimony : Throughout the war,
en both sides, net one of the regular brand
was known te steal. It was net alwaysse
with the amateur experts of the volunteer
service. There arc two illustrative con
trasts that new pass across my mind : The
first, a volunteer psalm-singing speculator,
whom I need net mention ; the ether, that
grand old Confederate here, Jehn B. Mag
ruder. whem'I recollect as once painted by
a chance correspondent efthe Londen Times
riding at the head of his legions ever the
flowering sward of Texas, looking like one
of the paladins of old, and as I will add
with millions of money had he been se
minded springing te his hand from the
clever at his horse's hoofs.
I well remember hew he stayed Mc
Clellan, and 40,000 of the flower of our
Northern youth under that leader, for
nearly a month at Yorktown, with but
9,000 men, leaving behind him iu the
abandoned walls net a wagon, net a side of
bacon, nor a man.
Right well also de I bear in mind, when
he found -his retreat discovered and dis
puted by these instinctive soldiers, Hoeker,
Hcint.lemau and Kearney, he had stomach
te give battle te the three en the read at
Williamsburg, and te pass through the
toils that environed him, by the lire of his
sword, with the glory of a new Mercau.
What has Grant done that was better than
that? Indeed, Magruder was a grand old
soldier, hut he died without means enough
te bury him a funeral that became a
here who knew hew te make war but did
net knew hew te make money. New,Grant
was a different kind of here a soldier,
doubtless, but net se much of ene as
his blind worshipers would have us
think a silent, crafty, money-making
man, with always an empire te windward
and keenly comprehending that the first
step el" the founder of a dynasty is te make
himself and family rich, aye te the utter
most generation. Our friend Ulysses be
gan his climb te power logically, by tak
ing presents, absorbing strengths in stocks
and heu-cs, and every form of property,
and by distributing l'ei tunes te his rela
tives, from the Cerbius te the Dents, his
last and most clever coup in that way being
the recent side stroke of two or three mil
lions in California for the family fund, in
the way of marriage through the ceckey
and aspiring young Prince Fred. Indeed,
from the day of accession of Ulysses te
what is practically the throne efthe United
States (with its mere than regal patron
age), he has never, se far as my observa
tion gees, refused a rich man's invitation
te dinner nor sat at a peer man's table. If
it were my desire te wound him, I would
refer te sumptuous bnaids which he has
carelessly allowed himself te patronize
that were net entirely weithy even of his
own humble stait in life.
Presently, when he recovers from the
stupefaction efthe recent staggering blew
at Chicago, he will slowly uncoil and
stretch out again for profit.
But te return te the presidential ques
tion. I was always of the opinion, after
what had happened iu 187C, that Tilden
was the logical and proper candidate for
Cincinnati, and still believe he would have
been elected first, because the people
throughout the land were yearning for a
change. e have seen that mysterious
public sense lately work in England. But
beyend the impulse of this slew and steady
revolution against the Republican party,
and transcending the force of all ether
causes put together came iu the nick
of time the audacious attempt of a set of
political highwaymen at Chicago te plant
their knees upon the public breast and
throttle it of its vpicc, in order that they
might establish a permanent government
for their political master and themselves.
They were mad with spoil and drunk with
arrogance and power, and did net knew te
what a :icat extent they were unmasking
themselves till it was tee late.
Was ever such a sight ? The leader,
with his private wire, most blind and mad
of all, had waded te his late from a prima
ry declaration that he would accept a nom
inatien only it unanimously pressed upon
him, and, after a six days light, died with
his jaw upon the bit at ;!0C !
That was the moment at which the
ceuntiy took fire, or. te use our American
phrase, "get mad."' At the same moment
a panic seized the braves who had been
forbidding honest men te speak. The
siege of libcity was raised by the lifting of
Garfield's banner. The desperadoes en
deavored te make the best of their discom
fiture ; but they had gene tee far. The
people new had taken the bit, and the in
sults these Republican dictators had put
upon their respected representatives in the
convention burned every honest cheek iu
the land. Frem that moment the election
of any Democratic candidate who might
he named at Cincinnati was certain."
But the best man was chosen, and 1 re
joice in his selection. 1 de net predict
anything, but I believe Gen. Hancock will
be invited te the White Heuse, in large
part by the very same patriotic men who
sent honest Abraham Lincoln there for
two terms. I shall take great pleasure in
casting my vote for him as a man without
stain and equal te the presidential station
Fer that purpose I will be found at the
polls iu New Yerk at the election in next
November.
.13 ere Ilcturns.
In his Pi egress this week Cel. Ferney
publishes letters from 1). R. Goodlee, of
Washington, 1). C; Richard McAllister, a
I'cunsyivaiiiau at tiie capital; W. W.
Whitmer, of Des Moines, Iowa, and An
sclm Birdsall, of Binghamton, N. Y., all
Republicans, saying that they have en
listed under the Democratic banner for the
Hancock fight.
An Old Soldier.
T. Cadwalader, wrote from the recor
der's eflice in Daylcstewn te Majer J. B.
Roberts of Newtown, Buck county, urging
him te get up a Republican soldier club.
In his reply Maj. Roberst said : "Yeu will
find, I think, this fall, thousands of old
veterans in the Republican paity giving
their hurrahs and votes te Gen. Hancock.
Yeu say should the Democratic party be
suceesful with their candidate, a Union
soldier, yen fear it. will be placing the
boys in gray, instead of the boys in blue,
in power. Captain, were you ever in the
army of the Potomac'.' Who was the
most dreaded Confederate officer, noted
for lying iu ambush and sheeting down
in cold bleed the boys in blue ? Was it net
Colonel Mesby'.' Yes; and today he is
being rewarded by the Republican chief
magistrate as American consul at Heng
Keng, in China. Gen. Lengstrcet, another
rebel officer, is filling the mission of min
ister te Turkey, and hosts of ethers I could
mention. But the war is ever, and has
been for fifteen long years, and I propose
te drop the matter and fall in with enough
mere of the boys in blue te place them at
the head of our government that superb
and fearless Union soldier, General Winlield
bcett Hancock, born a Pcnnsylvanian and
the pride efthe state."
Oilier Notable Vcccsslens.
lien. Samuel II. Tlionipnen, of Mt. Mor Mer
ris, 111., formerly a .staunch Republican,
has declared himself for Hancock and
English.
Captain N. W. Wheeler, prominent as a
merchant in Portland, O., has declared for
Hancock. As he has always been a lead
ing Republican his change of party affilia
tions has created quite a breeze iu the Radi
cal ranks.
The Hancock Legien of Shamokin was
organized with 70 members, about ten per
cent of whom were ex-Republicans.
Charles N. Pee, ex-register of voters of
New Haven, Conn., a prominent citizen
and hitherto a leading Republican, has
come out for Hansek and English. Mr.
Pee served four-years and a half in the
Union army, and feels atheme in the Han
cock column. !
A correspondent of the national Demo
cratic cemmittee writes from Montgomery,
Alabama . " Our colored Hancock and
English club en its third meeting last
night numbered 610. The colored voters
arc a unit for the cause."
A Herse Disease.
Horses in many of the stables of Bosten
and its vicinity are suffering from a fatal
distemper, which is attributed te "the
rainy and irregular weather." The ani
mal's threat becomes inflamed se that in a
short time he is unable te swallow, and in
a day or two the muscles of the body are
paralyzed and death ensues. Ne cure has
been found for the disease, which, however,
it is believed will net become epidemic.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TOBACCO AND IT CULTURE.
A Valuable Manual for tee Farmer.
We have received a copy of a 28-page
pamphlet published by G. W. Haverstick,
of New Providence, this county, titled
"Tobacco and its Culture," being a com
plete treatise en the culture aud manage
ment of tobacco from the seed te the case.
The author, who has had twenty-two
years' experience in tobacco culture, lays
down very clear rules for the government
of the f&ewcr, commencing with the selec
tien and sprouting of the seed, and gemg
en through the whole process of preparing
the seed bed, sewing the seed, managing
the plants, destroying the worms, topping,
cutting, hanging, stripping and casing te-
tobaece.
The following extract is seasonable and
give an idea of the scope and character of
the work.
Topping Tobacre.
On thin land where the plnnt docs net
have a vigorous growth, top it at lrem six
te eight leaves, but in ordinary land, where
the plants leek thriving, you can it your
tobacco has net been planted tee late, ina
turc from eight te ten leaves ; ind in very
strong rich land, from twelve te feurtcc-u
geed leaves en the stock, but in no case
should it exceed that number as you will
learn, I hope, before we close, by following
up the method given m this work before
we get te the case. I would prefer
te top just after a ram, but it
is peer policy te wait ler a
rain until your tobacco sheets, before
topping. The plant which
you think, at first sight, will mature ten
leaves, top te eight, and the ene you
think will bear twelve top te ten, aud se
en, but iu no case let mere than fourteen
leaves, besides the three lower ones, en any
one stock, and the sooner the topping is
done after the stock has attained the re
quired number of leaves, the better able
will it be te drive te maturity. Anether
very important point in topping tobacco is
this : de net run ever your patch, but
when your tobacco is ready for topping,
take it clean as you go aud top each stock
en its own merits according te the advice
given. Tep each stalk for itself regardless
of the next one, as for various causes they
inav net be of the same size. If the
stock be small, top it at any
rate. it will give bigger and
better leaves, if net se many of them, and
they all have the same time te mature in,
and will ripen mere evenly. This is far
better than te have the small stocks two
weeks later, which would give you censid
crable trouble when you come te cut your
tobacco. It your tobacco be all topped at
one time it is sure te ripen, and it is better
te have leaves en one size than stocks.
Anether advantage : Your tobacco when
topped at one time, or nearly se, will ripen
and euro much mere unilermly in color,
a -:j q'iC grower will see seen af
ter lopping, especially in a wet scaseu, the
sheets or suckers appear, which must also
be attended te : however, de net give
yourself any trouble about them
until the first six suckers appear
which will lie en top et the stalk
then they should be broken off very care
fully, se as net te injure the plant. Suck
ers de net retard the growth of the plant
materially until they become large. Yeu
will find that each and every leaf will send
out a sucker, which must be broken eli in
time before getting tee large. The stalks
begin te threw out suckers at the top or
where the bud stem was lirst broken en,
and continue te go down the stalk until
they get te the lower leaves which deter
mines the time when the stock is ripe
Yeu can with safety cut when
the lower leaves send out suckers from
two te live inches long, and the leaves
thicken up and become brittle. There is
mere injury in letting your tobacco become
tee ripe than by cutting tee green. Yeu
must, however, guard against both ex
tremes as neither is geed.
Equally minute and explicit rules are
giving for cutting and harvesting the
crop, and many ether useful hints are
given in the pampclet, that cannot fail te
be of great advantage te the amateur to
bacco growers, in whose interest the little
work is mere especially Avritten.
TI1K CAMPAIGN.
Tlie Democrat Agree en a Uniform.
At a general meeting of the conference
committees of all the Hancock clubs held
last evening, the following style of uniform
was unanimously recommended for adop
tion by the clubs of the city for the com
ing campaign :
Cap Style, navy ; plain white oil-cloth.
Siiiht Dark blue canton flannel, with
light blue shield, containing number
of ward en breast, in white muslin
net less than G inches iu length.
Buttens white.
Tie White, knit.
Belt White oil-cloth with "Hancock
and English" printed en back.
Touch Glebe, 0-inch wick with 4-feet
pole.
Frem the large number of samples
shown the committees the above was
adopted for recommendation te the ward
clubs, by whom it will be considered and
reported back te the general conference
committee. The uniform is tasteful,
unique and cheap.
Paving North Queen Street.
A letter received by the chairman of the
street committee niis morning from Cun
ningham & McNichol, states that the last
ship lead of Belgian block for paving
North Queen street, has arrived at Phila
delphia, and will be immediately forward
ed te this city. A large proportion of the
blocks have already arrived in Lancaster
and been unleaded at the crossing of the
Harrisburg turnpike. The work of dig
ging up the street preparatory te laying
the new pavement will probably be com
menced en Monday next.
The Presbyterian Organ.
Samuel Belder, the organ builder of
Reading, is rebuilding the large Buffing Buffing
ten organ in the Presbyterian church, this
cjty. He is adding five new steps, greatly
increasing the power of the bass, putting
in new valves, new bellows and rcveicing
the many reeds and pipes in the compli
cated instrument. The work will be fin
ished in three or four weeks and the build
er and ether competent judges think that
when it is completed, the instrument will
be ene of the very finest in Lancaster.
TEXT AKD TABERNACLE.
Bellgten la the LaadlaTiile Greve.
Special Correspondence et the IxrxLuencrR.
Wednesday Evening, August 28.
The children's meeting is one of the
most important services of the camp, and
is usually attractive and largely attended.
The singing is geed and the addresses are
generally deeply interesting. The first of
these children's services was held at 1 p.
m., led by Prof Ellenberger, Prof. Sweeny
at the organ. Addresses were made by
Revs. J. Lindcmuth and J. Mills. The at
tendance was large for the first meeting.
The weather has been delightfully pleas
ant and makes the sojourn in the weeds
enjoyable.
At 3 p. m. Rev. E. Potts, of Salem, Pa.,
held forth. Text, Genesis, xxxv., 1 :
" And Ged said unto Jacob, arise and go
up unto Bethel te dwell there," &c. Man's
forgetfulness of Ged isone of the evidences
of human depravity. Points : 1. Ged's
kindndss unto Jacob. He becomes an
cxile alone in the wilderness. Ged draws
near te him and manifests His presence te
him, and befriends him. 2. His obli
gations of gratitude te Ged for His
kindness. Jacob acknowledged the claims
of Ged, and paid his vows unto Him ; Jacob
had his Bethel and se have we ; Ged meets
with his people ; nis previdence watches
ever them and blesses them. The preach
er is modest and retiring and speke with
much plainness and sincerity.- He dealt
heavy blows at ministers who seem te be
fearful in preaching the truth. Last year
he shrank from preaching himself ; this
year he determined te be mere bold and
faithful.
The sermon was short aud well received
and was followed by an exhortation from
Rev. S. 11. C. Smith, of Lancaster, and an
earnest prayer-meeting followed.
The spirit of the meeting is gradually
rising, in a few days it will doubtless
reach Heed-tide. Several ministers ar
rived in the afternoon train, among them
Rev. A. L. Heed, from Harrisburg, and
Rev. R. McKay, from Tiega, Philadel
phia. There was no service at C p. in. Prof.
Sweeny gave a delightful concert of music
at the public stand te the enjoyment of
the people.
At 7$ p. m. Rev. Win. Aspril, of Mt.
Jey, preached en Jeremiah vi., 16 : " Staud
ye in the way and see and ask for the old
path." These words were addressed te
the Jewish nation. They had beceme cor
rupted. The prophet exhorts them te re
turn te their obedience te Ged.
The text is applicable te us, pointing
out the way we should take. The lan
guage is figurative and points out the way
of life. Twe things noticed. 1. The wag
recommended. 2. The premise annexed.
Religion is represented in the scriptures as
a way. It is the way of repentance ; of
faith ; of holiness. It is a way distin
guished for its antiquity and excellency ;
it is the old path and the geed way. The
premise of the text was urged by way
of application. The sermon was plain aud
readily understood. . The preacher
is vet a young man and premises well for
the future.
The sermon was followed by a short and
earnest exhortation from Rev. II. Wheeler
and a prayer-meeting continued te the
close of the meeting.
The congregations during the day were
moderate. By the close of the week a
large influx is expected. The evening air
felt quite cool and thick coats and shawls
were called into requisition. Thick blankets
will feel comfortable te the sleepers at
night.
Jehn Maxton and Jacob BIctz from Col
umbia and S. Miller from Lancaster have
been appointed gate keepers.
ITiurtday Noen. On rising this morn
ing everybody you met reminded you of
what everybody knew, that the air is coel:
these who had plenty of covering slept
well, while ethers who were net se fortu
nate shivered with the cold. It is never
safc te risk coming te carapmcctings with
out plenty of thick clothes and covering.
The morning is splendid, and premises
well ; the air is balmy, and we feel like
snuffing it in freely. There is nothing
mere free than air ; corporations de net
control it, it belongs te the peer as well as
the rich.
The prayer-meeting at Ca. m. was led by
Rev. Brady in the tabernacle.
The prayer aud experience meeting at
8J a. m. was led by Rev. J. Lindcmuth at
the stand. The spirit of the meeting was
geed.
Rev. A. L. Heed, of Harrisburg occu
pied the stand at 10 a. m. Prayer was
offered, by Rev. H. Wheeler, of Colum
bia. The preacher took his text from Remans
i., 1G : " Fer I am net ashamed of the
gospel of Christ," Jbc. This is no new
text, it is old and familiar, but it is always
geed and in place. The gospel is precious ;
we may net always appreciate its prcc prcc
ieusness. Its power te save,
te renew and te comfort has
been fully demonstrated. The theory dis
cussed was the superiority of the gospel.
This was shown iu its erigiu. It is the
gospel of Christ, and as such it is above all
human systems. It directs men in all the
relations and duties of life. It teaches men
moral honesty. It enjoins equity, sobriety
and virtue. It is a power the power of
Ged the power of Ged unto salvation.
The gospel acts as a sweet lullaby te rock
some people te sleep. The Saviour said,
"What, could ye net watch with me one
hour." Hew encouraging te the preacher
te speak te sleepy hearers. The sermon
was somewhat lengthy, and it gave but lit
tle time for exhortation and prayer.
Rev. S. II. C. Smith closed the meeting.
PICNICS.
St. Antheny's anil St. Catharine's atQearry-
vllle Zion Lutheran atMcCall'a terry
PrivatePicnics at What Glea.
The excursion train for Quarryvillc this
morning consisted of six cars, and had
aboard a large number of the congregation
of St. Antheny's church this city, who, iu
connection with the congregation of St.
Catharine's of Drumerc, are te-day hold
ing a picnic at Hcss's weeds near Quarry
villc The excursion train left the King
street depot at 8:10. and was followed at
9:45 by the regular train, which also had
aboard a number of the picnic party. The
whole number of tickets sold was about
300.
The cougrcgatieu and Sunday school of
Zion Lutheran church, this city, are to
day picnicking at McCall's Ferry. They
went there by rail via Columbia and Pert
Deposit railroad. The number of tickets
sold was 256.
Yesterday a very pleasant private picnic,
consisting of about twenty-five couples of
young people, was held at What Glen.
Te-day another private picnic is being held
there under the management of Messrs. .
R. D. Stewart and Harry Carpenter.
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