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FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. ID. 1880.
Democrats aai the Belilers.
The Republicans can hardly afford te
raise any question that will lead te an
examination into the willingness of the
Democratic Congress te measure out the
fullest justice and liberality te the Union
soldiers. A glance at the record will
show that the Heuse of the Forty-fourth
Congress, by a vote of 141 te 46, passed
the bill equalizing bounties Garfield
dodging and that the Republican Sen
ate killed it by indefinite postponement.
It was the same Democratic Heuse
which extended the time for filing claims
for additional bounty from Jan. 20, 1875,
tD July 1, 1880. It was the same Demo
cratic Heuse which put that gallant
Union soldier from Ohie, Gen. A. V.
Rice, into the direction of the general
bill providing pay for arrears of pensions,
which was strenuously opposed by Gar
field and ether Republican leaders en the
fleer. When the bill finally passed the
Democratic Heuse by Democratic votes,
it was given its quietus in the Republi
can Senate. On June 19, 1878, another
Democratic Heuse passed another arrears
of pensions bill, and though it was refused
te restore te its privileges old
saldiers of the war of 1812, who had
served in the rebel army, it was passed
by Democratic votes and only passed the
the Senate after a desperate Republican
effort te defeat or postpone it. The
Democratic Heuse,with rare promptness,
appropriated the money required te carry
it out, and declared the meaning of the
statute te be the grant also of "pensions
en account of soldiers who were enlisted
or drafted for the service in the war of the
rebellion, but died or incurred disability
from a cause originating after the cessa
tion of hostilities and before being mus
tered out."
When the war broke out there were in
the Seuth some old soldiers of the war of
1812, who were en the pension rolls, and
they were at once struck off. Frem the
nature of the case, forty-eight years after
their service, they could net have been
very active in the rebellion. Be that as
it may, in 187(5, sixty-four years after
their original service in the war against
England, it was proposed te restore their
pension ; net te them, nor te pay them
for the time during the continuance of
the rebellion, but te their widows and
orphans. That humane and patriotic
preposition was opposed by the Republi
cans, Garfield's name leading all the
rest. The Democratic Heuse passed it
the Republican Senate killed it. It was
finally passed in the next Congress, only
twenty Republicans daring te vole
against it, Garfield dodging again.
It was a Democratic Heuse which
upon the petition of many soldiers passed
a bill te protect them from sharks and
sharpers by making their laud warrants
real instead of personal property. A Re
publican Senate smothered the bill.
It was a Democratic Heuse, with the
" Confederate brigadiers "' in it, which
gave maimed soldiers the right te an ar
tificial liinb every five years at the pub
lic expense, passing the bill against the
efforts of Republican senators te emar
culatc it of its most vital previsions.
It was a Democratic Heuse which
originated the bill increasing the pen
siens of soldiers who had lest both arms,
both feet and both eyes from 30 te $72
per month, and increasing the tensions
of soldiers who had lest their leg at the
hip joint.
The Democratic Heuse passed and the
Republican Senate killed the bill te give
soldiers who hail lest the use of the knee
or elbow joint $21 a month, and the bill te
increase the pensions of these who had
lest an arm or a feet from $24 te $3G per
month.
It was a Democratic Heuse which
originated the bill te protect pensioners
by limiting the charges of claim agents te
ten dollars. It was a Republican Congress
which passed statute Ne. 1751. direct
ing that wounded soldiers should be pre
ferred in civil appointments, but it was
se shamefully disregarded that only when
a Democratic Heuse came in was a bill
passed directing fine and imprisonment
for these who failed te obey it. The Re
publican Senate killed the bill. It was
the Democratic Heuse, under the leader
of a Democratic Union soldier, who
lest a leg in the war, which repealed the
law made by a Republican Congress that
had stricken from the pension roll every
wounded, armless or legless soldier who
had obtained civil employment under the
government.
It was a Democratic Heuse that want
ed te direct that wounded soldiers should
be selected as pension agents. The Re
publican Senate hemmed and hawed un
til the matter failed. It was en this oc
casion that Senater Ingalls, Republican
of Kansas, was moved te say :
At the ether end of the capitelisa Heuse
which is frequently alluded te as the Heuse
of the Confederate Tragedies. They have
no unconstitutional scruples about declar
ing that Union soldiers shall administer
the pension agencies of this ceuutry. The
men who have served in the rebel army,
and have had their disabilities removed
and have come te Congress, pass a section
te a bill expressly declaring that the pew
ers sura uuxies ei tnese emces snail be ex
ercised by disabled, wounded and honor
ably discharged Union soldiers. But when
the bill came te the Senate, a portion of
the gentlemen of that faith and a portion
of the gentlemen of the opposite political
faith, come together in a body that is os
tensibly Republican, and find a great many
constitutional scruples about the power of
the executive te appoint Union soldiers te
office. The Senate, nom
inally Republican, attacks a section that
comes from the Heuse, actually Democrat
ic. That body, controlled very largely by
the sentiment known as the Confederate
during the war, have sent te us an open,
manly declaration that the duties of these
offices shall be discharged by wounded and
disabled Union soldiers.
If Democrats and Confederates, as they are
called by the public press, can find no con
stitutional difficulty about this matter, it
seems te me that we ought net te be par
ticularly troubled upon the point. See
Recerd, May 6, 1878, part 4, 45th Ceng.. 2d
sess.
This is a record which cannot be gain
said. Our Republican contemporaries
who tackle it will find that they gnaw
a file. It has only been a few months
since they were assailing a Democratic
Congress for lavishly voting away money
en the equaUzatien of bounties and pen-
sien arrearages. They dare make no ap
peal te the record new te prove that the
Democracy have net been fair and emi
nently liberal with the Union soldiers.
We challenge them te dispute the fore
going. m
His Hide Hug en the Fence.
An incident has just occurred in the
Indiana campaign which has greatly dis
concerted the Republicans, and ever
which the Democrats are very much ani
mated and encouraged. In a speech the
ether night Mr. Hendricks whose geed
opinion of Garfield the Republicans have
been gleefully republishing bitterly ar
raigned the DeGelyer statesman for his
part in the electoral fraud. Mr. Hen
dricks said it was peculiarly disreputa.
ble because Garfield, alone of the
"visiting statesmen," dared te sit as
a juryman en the case which he
had prejudged and the evidence in which
he had helped te doctor. He further
charged that Garfield while in New Or
leans took charge of the returns from
West Feliciana parish, and " in one of
the inner rooms of Packard's custom
house, " manipulated the returns and
prepared affidavits and interrogatories te
make out a case. The Indianapolis
Journal, the organ of its party, edited by
the chairman of the state central com
mittee, a neighbor of Mr. Hendricks,
assailed his declaration as unwarrantable
and untrue, and said if it could be sub
stantiated Garfield " would be dis
graced."
Thus challenged in an issue of veracity,
Mr. Hendricks warmed te his work.
Though net booked te speak in
Indianapolis that night, he sought and
was cheerfully accorded the opportunity,
and such a flaying as he gave Garfield no
Christian statesman has received in this
year of grace. He cited the testimony
given before the committee inves
tigating the electoral fraud, page by
pace, and he demonstrated from
Garfield's own admission the truth
of the accusation which he had
made against him. First Garfield
swore that, in the distribution of the tes
timony relating te the contested parishes,
" I took West Feliciana." Then, " I oc
cupied a room in the custom house in the
corner of the building ;" " this room had
no deer into the hall, it communicated
with another room ;" " there was no
body in the inner room but myself;"
there lie swore that he examined the evi
dence in the case, as if he were a lawyer,
and then he says net finding their evi
dence strong enough
I draughted some interrogatories te
draw out mera fully from some of the wit
nesses the testimony which they had given
rather in brief, and some of the interroga
tories which subsequently were appended
te the testimony of these witnesses.
He admitted that he talked with Gee.
Swsiyzee and fixed up interrogatories te
draw out his evidence, and se he did in
the case of Amy Mitchell, and she an
swered these interrogatories te suit, but
in her testimony before the same com
mittee she afterwards herself swore that
there was no truth in the statement given in
response te GarJieWs interrogatories. In
answer te a question propounded by ex.
Gov. Cox, of Ohie, who is a Republican,
Amy Mitchell said that every statement
contained in the affidavit was false ;
that she did net say anything because
she knew it, but said ichal they told her te
say. Her testimony also showed that
she had been trained in the custom house
te testify before the cemmittee.On his way
home Garfield prepared a brief in behalf
of the Republican side of the case, based
en the perjured testimony he had helped
te fix up ; all the time knowing, as he
testified, that " if nothing but the face
of the returns was te be considered, and
if every vote sent up was te be treated
as a legal vote, Mr. Tilden was ahead ;"
" and if every vote sent up was a legal
vote, and some mere Republican votes
were net found, it was very clear that
the state had gene for Nichells and Til
den." And yet this man who had prejudged
the case, who had been a lawyer in it,
who had helped te fabricate it, had the
shameless effrontery te take a seat in the
jury box and swear that he would try it
fairly. And after he had argued that the
electoral commission, if appointed, must
go behind the face of the returns, he
voted net te go behind these which he
knew would be found te be rotten and
fraudulent.
It is no wonder that the Indianapolis
paper which had challenged Hendricks
te his proof failed next morning te pub
lish a word of it or a line of editorial
comment en his speech, which proved
Garfield's " disgrace" beyond a perad-
venture.
The New Era consistently advocates
the fumigation of " the robber's cave "
of Republican politicians in Philadelphia,
and quite bravely attacks Mr. Quay and
the " miserable bill " which he had passed
te enrich the politicians of his stripe and
te furnish a campaign fund for his party,
against the pretests of " almost the entire
press of the commonwealth." The Ncle
Era will of course net fail te remind its
readers that the candidate of its party in
this city for the Legislature, Mr. De
muth, is instructed te vote for this
same Quay for United States senator.
Dees the New Era include among
" the better class of men " whom it sees
going te Ilarrisburg next winter, these
who will go there fettered and padlocked
in the chain gang that are instructed te
vote for Quay ?
Tne Fotate Jtngs Going Heme.
A curious sight in the counties of Pas
saic and Bergen, in New Jersey, is the mi
gration of the potato bug. Meadow,
wagon reads, and iailread swarm with
these pests, all moving westward. In some
places they are se thick upon the rails of
the railroad as te impede travel of any up
grade. Where obstacles are met they
turn out of their way. Great numbers
are destroyed by the feet of travellers and
the wheels of moving trains, but the gaps
thus made are seen filled. On the coming
of cold weather they immediately go into
the ground. A lady in Hackcnsack avers
that she swept up a peck at ene time iu
her front halL They are a plague in that
section, creeping into houses and entering
all rooms.
Fourteen hundred persons have bee
vaccinated in Trey, N. Y., since Tuesday,
and the number of small-nex cases has di-
minished te 25. The beard of health has
e611'110 construction of several new
, MINOR TOFXGB.
Pabdeb hall, the scientific building at
Lafayette college, Easten, has been rebuilt
handsomer, better and te be better equip
ped than ever. About the middle of No
vember, after the election excitement has
subsided, it will be rededicated-with im
pressive exercises. The new hall is prac
tically fire proof.
Colonel Rekekt G. Inueksell has re
turned from his trip te New England, dur
ing which he made several campaign
speeches. He says he will make one of a
thousand persons who will give two thou
sand dollars each toward carrying the elec
tion for Garfield and arthur. He seems te
think it will take several hegehcads te
carry it through.
In the first delivery of his public lecture
Dr. Tanner, the fasting man, especially
denounced Dr. Hammend and reviewed
the controversy between tbem. He ad
vocated fasting for all inflammatory dis
eases and especially for dyspepsia and
rheumatism, and said that te establish
that system for the benefit of science he
was willing te again uudcrde his arduous
task.
Reiiel outrages are numerously report
ed from the Confederate county of Berks,
in this secession state of Pennsylvania
which Hancock tried te carry ever te the
rebels at Gettysburg. In Reading, en Wed
nesday three attempts were made te burn
American flags. The flags were sus
pended across the street with Hancock's
name en them, and the attempt te burn
them was made by Republican paradcrs.
The Tribune estimates the Republican
majority in Vermont at 25,000. At the
September elections in 187G the majority
was 23.837. There is said te have been an
increased vote this year of 5,000, of which
it seems that the Democrats get 3,837 and
the Republicans 1.1G3. That rate of in
crease will carry every Northern state for
Hancock, except Iowa, Kansas, Vermont
and Minnesota. Next?
The great Pau-Prcsbytcrian council, te
meet iu Philadelphia en the 23d inst., is
net a denominational body, but includes
representatives of all denominations who
have the presbytcrian ever against the
episcepal form of church government.
There is a very large representation from
abroad, many of the members being al
ready there. Among the lay Presbyterian
delegates from this country will be Judge
Streng, Senater Ferry, Gen. McClellan
and Stanley Matthews. The Reformed
church will be largely represented, the
delegates including Rev. Jehn W. Nevin,
D. D., LL. D., Lancaster ; Rev. Jehn II.
A. Bombcrger, D. D., Ce llegcville ; Rev.
Themas G. Apple, D. D., Lancaster ; Rev.
Franklin W. Kremer, D. D:, Lebanon.
Tiik Republicans are distributing here a
pretended fac-similie of an application of
Rebert Hanna, of Seuth Carolina ami
late of the C. S. A., for a pension. We
have no doubt he would be glad te have
it. As he is an ignorant man who can't write
and has te make his mark, he knew net
that the constitution forever prevents such
pensions being granted. Ne Congress
could if it would; no Democratic Con
gress would if it could ; in case of Gar
field's election, possibly Lengstrcct and
Mesby, and Ssttlc and Ileldcn would get
themselves pensioned. Like as net the
application is a forgery, like the naturali
zation papers which Cam Muhlenberg
swore that he aud Jehnsen made in the
latter's back office ; or a fabrication like
the tax receipts made in the back rooms of
the Exmainer building some years age.
Census Superintendent Walker says
that the census gains in the Seuth ever 1870,
arc easily accounted for. That census was
very badly taken and the Seuth was grossly
misrepresented. Its return was run low te
rob it of its due apportionment and by in
competent takers. Of his last work Supt.
Walker says: "The Republican papers
have been making a great deal of ueise
about what they call fraud in the enumera
tion, but they advance nothing tangible in
support of such an assertion. They base
all statements simply, en the discrepancy
between the censuses of 1870 and 1880 in
certain localities specified in Seuth Caro
lina and Mississippi. In some counties the
increase in population is seventy-five, one
hundred, and even ene hundred and fifty
per centum ever the figures given in 1870.
This by no means proves, however, that
the enumeration just taken has been
fraudulent. My critics have failed te show
a single name wrongfully placed en the
lists."
PERSONAL
Mrs. Langtry thinks she has been en
free exhibition long enough and wants te
go en the stage.
Neil Burgess, the actor, was married
the ether day te Miss Stoddard at San
Francisce.
William A. Wheeler visited the
New England fair at Worcester, Mass.,
yesterday, and delivered an address.
Blanche Chapman is with the Ford Ferd
Denham combination who appear in
" Pranks" at Fulton opera house next
Wednesday. She is a great favorite here.
Francis Wayland, of Yale college, was
elected president of the American Secial
Science association, at Saratoga, last even
ing. There is a rumor that Montgomery
Blair may become the Democratic can
didate for Congress in the Sixth Maryland
district, new represented by Milten G. Ur
ncr, Republican.
A rumor has been en the " street " for a
few days te the effect that General Grant
is te be president of the Western Union
telegraph company. Dr. Nervin Green
is said te be dissatisfied and about te re
sign Miss Conquest was hurt by a fall en the
stage at Wallack's theatre, New Yerk, en
Wednesday night, while performing the
part of the Flying Fairy in "Grim Gob
lins." It is asserted that she will be out
again in a few days.
Governer McClellan has been elected
president of the New Yerk uudcrgreuud
railway company. The executive com
mittee was composed of General McClel
lan, Andrew Gilsey, Hugh J. Jewctt, Mr.
Sewall, and . A. Quintard.
Rufus E. Shapley, who was mention
cd as a likely candidate in place of Mr.
Graham, slated for the Republican nemi
nation of district attorney in Philadelphia,
says: "I am net a candidate for '
office of district attorney, or for any ether
office ; and no one had authority te regis
ter my name as a candidate:"
The local political contest en the part
of the Republicans in Philadelphia has as
sumed an interesting phase. TbeMcMANEs
wing of the party lias left no stone unturn
ed that would tend te cripple the Quay
and Lane factions, and in retaliation the
news comes from Harrisburg that the Cam Cam
eeon men in the next Legislature will seek
te have some law enacted which will re
duced the fees el the delinqcnt tax col
lector, or consolidate the office with that
of the receiver of taxes.
Apropos of milliners' aud dressmakers
bills, there is an anecdote told that, wheu
Mme. Emile de Gikakdix entered her
box at the theatre Francaise en the night
of the first performance of " Heruani,"
her beauty and the graceful elegance of
her costume caused her te be greeted by
the audience with a triple round of ap
plause. He dress was a simple robe of
white woellen muslin with a blue sash and
the cost of the whole was twenty-eight
francs.
In New Yerk, yesterday, Miss Vienna
Demerest, daughter of W. Jcnuings and
Mmc. Demerest, was married te Dr.
Gane, by the pastor of the church of the
Strangers, the Rev. Dr. C. F. Deems. The
wedding was very quiet, but the presents
were magnificent and the upholstery su
perb. The Dcmercsts have filled their
bar'l and solid silver was the order of the
presents. Mr. Demerest's presents te his
daughter consist of a handsome brown
stone house aud a magnificent pair of dia
mond solitaire ear-rings.
m m
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The returns of the San Francisce charter
election complete stand as fellows : Fer
adoption 4,145 ; against 19,207.
Baseball : At Trey Trey, 0 ; Providence,
1. At Cleveland Chicago, 5 ; Cleveland,
3. At Buffalo Buffalo, 2 ; Cincinnati, 0.
On Wednesday night a buckboard of the
Peces mail was stepped by three men, near
Anten Chice, and the mail bags rilled.
There was nothing very valuable in the
mails.
Dan Camery and Sam Shields yesterday
descended into a silver mine, six miles
west of Hannibal, Me., tee seen after a
blast and while a vacuum still existed.
They were dead when taken out.
A fire at Paducah, Ky., destroyed Sa
genfeltcr & Reed's three-story brick build
ing and Viscr's building in the rear, to
gether with a quantity of tobacco, involv
ing a less of 15,000.
The Grand Army demonstration at
Chicopee, Mass., yesterday was a very
imposing affair. It was participated in
by the Springfield, Chicopee, Holyeko
and Westfb'.ds pests, aud by various
military companies aim etiier organiza
tions. In New Haven yesterday a battery gun
was tested that tired 12,828 shots in ene
minute. It was invented by Myren Colo Celo Cole
ncy, and Dr. J. H. McLean, of St. Leuis,
furnished the $15,000 that was necessary
te make the terrible weapon. The gun is
one of a number of "peacemakers."
The official figures, as compiled at ihe
census office, of the population of the Dis
trict of Columbia are as fellows : Total,
177.638, of which 83,594 are males and
94,044 females ; 118,236 arc whites and
59,402 colored ; 160,527 are native and
17,111 foreign born.
Cotten crop reports were made from
Virginia, Seuth Carolina, Georgia, Flori Fleri
da and Alabama yesterday. All make
mention of damage from the recent rains,
the weather being less favorable than in
August last year. Rust injured the crop
in Flerida and Georgia also.
Kate Grimes, a woman often iu the police
court for petty offenses, was found en the
street in Columbus, O., with her threat
cut. A young man named Teal, who was
seen with her en Wednesday night, has
been arrested, charged with the murder.
A bloody handkerchief was found in his
possession.
Charles Miller, of Cincinnati, who at
tempted te commit suicide just as the po
lice were about te arrest him for forging
his father's name te two checks, has recev
ered. He was discharged, his father tak
ing up the checks and saying he had here
tofore allowed his son te sign his name te
similar documents.
At the Gilsey house, New Yerk, last
evening, Frank McLaughlin, a school
teacher, was taking out a piece of bag
gage when the elevator started upward
without warning. His head was caught
between the elevator and the fleer above.
His neck was broken. The elevator boy
heard a stilled cry and reversed the motion.
McLaughlin fell te the fleer dead.
James T. DcJarnettc, en trial at Dan
ville, Va., for murdering his sister in con
sequence of her leading a life of shame,
was found guilty of murder in the first de
gree, with a recommendation te mercy.
The jury was out four and a half hours.
A motion for a new trial was entered, and,
if this is denied, the case will be taken te
the court of appeals.
The New Yerk express train en the Bes
ten, Concord & Montreal railroad met with
an accident en Rum Mill bridge, a mile
below Bath, N. II., caused by a defective
brake. A car containing seven passengers
was overturned down a steep embankment,
but these within escaped with slight
bruises, except ene man who had a leg
DreKen.
The value of the imported merchandise
for the mouth of June last was 60,514,
563 ; same month last year, 38,890,451 ;
for twelve months ended June 30, 1880,
667,954, 74G ; for same period of 1879,
445,777,775. The value of exported mer
chandise for June, 1880, was 70,908,429 ;
same month of 1879, 44,378,684 : same
months ended June 30, 1880, 823,946,453 ;
same period of 1879, 638.340,790.
The police found Jee Emmet, the actor,
"drunk again " en the streets of New
Yerk yesterday. His silk hat was crushed
and his fine broadcloth suit was daubed
with mud. His hair was mussed, his face
unshaven aud his eyes bloodshot. He
clutched the iron railing te steady himself,
and gazed with a silly leer at Justice Wan
dell, who remanded him until he was
sober. Mr. Emmet's son was in court
and he requested this te be dene.
Agent Jehn D. Miles, of the Cheyenne
agency, Indian territory, has arrived in
Carlisle, with seme of the chiefs and 40
Indian pupils for the training school. The
chiefs are of the superior order and have
long been in friendship with the whites.
They arc, Little Raven, head chief of the
Arapahees, Left Hand, Arapahoe and Yel
low pear. Of, the Cheyennes, Big Herse,
Mad Wolf, Beb Tail, Man en Cloud, and
Rebert Bent, interpreter. They will stay
several clays at the school, as they are
among the most earnest advocates of edu
cation and civilization, and have been for
months looking forward te their visit East.
Off the Track.
A passenger train en the Indianapolis &
St. Leuis railroad was thrown from the
track, lour miles west of Terre Haute, yes
terday morning, by the removal of a rail.
Four coaches were thrown into a ditch.
The conductor, Geerge Norris, was killed,
but the passengers escaped injury. A
bridge crossed a deep ravine close te the
snot, and one car went te the verge of the
abyss, search is being made for the vil-
suspected of removing the rail.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Wbieb Tll the Drift or PoUtieal Opinion.
. Anether colored Hancock club has been
formed in New Yerk. t
A great, many Republicans of Sacra
mento county, California, have declared
their intention te vote for General nan
cock. Upwards of forty Germans of Tell City,
Ind., have pronounced for Hancock. They
voted for Hayes but "can't go Returning
Beard Jim."
Mr. Jehn R. Buchtcl, a prominent iron
and coal man, and a Grant elector in 1872,
presided at a nanceck and English meet
ing, at Nelsonville, Ohie, en Wednesday
evening.
Jehn A. McCleruand, a Democrat of Il
linois, lett a seat iu Congress te fight the
battles for the Union and the constitution.
General James A. Garfield left the army
in the midst of the war te take a scat in
Congress.
In Kalamazoo, Mich., a het-bed of Re
publicanism, among the members of a
Hancock club twenty-two are former Re
publicans and two of them colored men.
Similar intelligence comes from every part
of the Peninsular state.
The Republicans are rejoicing greatly
because with all their bullyiug,bull-dezing
aud buyiug they have come out of Ver
mont with their old majority. A negre
went te a horse race and en his return was
asked hew he came out. He said he had
get oft even. He lest a dollar and stele a
jack knife.
Gen. Jno. M. Palmer en Garfield.
" Iu one of my speeches I said, in speak
ing of General Garfield, ' that in October,
1863, after our army was checked at Chick
amauga and had fallen back te Chatta
nooga and was confronted at all points
south of the Tennessee river by the rebel
army under General Uragg; wuen our
lines of communication were strightcned
aud difficult and our supplies reduced, aud
it was apparent that nothing was left for
us but a disastrous retreat or a bloody bat bat
tle with our enemy iu position, General
Garfield left us and quit the army. He had
the legal right te abandon the beleaguered
army, but his conduct demonstrated that
he was without soldierly instincts or sym
pathies.' "
Governer Palmer also mentions the sin
gular fact that General Garfield consented
te abandon the command of troops in the
field, his own regiment included, and ac
cepted the rrcre staff position which he
held in 1863, and when he left the army in
October of that year.
The Ileltrhoevcr Letter.
The Carlisle Volunteer says : "Forgeries
in the politics of this county against Mr.
Beltzhoover are no new thing. In 1874,
when he rau for district attorney, en the
eve of the election, about ene hundred
base and malicious forged letters were is
sued and sent te persons in the ceuuty
whom it was supposed they would influ
ence. These forgeries were of the whole
letter and signature, just as iu this case,
and were boldly sent through the mails.
In 1878, in his contest for Congress,
a forged telegram was sent from
Newviile, bearing his forged signature,
and circulated broadcast through Miff
lin township, a Democratic stronghold.
That this letter is a forgery iu proved
by Mr. Beltzhoover's solemn and unequivo
cal testimony, by the dishonest and fraud
ulent conduct of these who pretend te have
the letter, in refusing te show it or give
the name of the person te whom it is writ
ten, by all the letters and speeches aud acts
of Mr. B. en the subject of pensions, by
the utter variance of its language and
tenor from that of Mr. B. in all ether mat
ters in which he is believed te be discreet
and cautious, and by all the circumstances
of the case."
Republicans ami Iho Soldier.
When the political complexion of the
two houses of Congress changed, the Re
publicans howled themselves hearse
about the discharged of crippled soldiers.
But when the facts came te be known it
was found that all the Republican crip
pled soldier in office had been retained.
It seems, however, that the Republican
authorities of this commonwealth have
less regard for the soldier, as the follow
ing will serve te shew: D. A. White
sell, of Easten, enlisted as a privata iu
the Fifth United States artillery iu Sep
tember, 1861, when net quite eighteen
years of age. He was shortly after pro
moted te sergeant. He was in every bat
tle in which his battery was engaged. At
Gettysburg he fought under Hancock, and
about an hour before the battle ceased,
en the 3d of July, 1803, he was severely
wounded aud lest a' leg. His name
had already been mentioned for promo
tion te lieutenancy and bore the cordial
endorsement of Majer General Sey-
meur. The less of his limb neces
sitated a discharge, aud the commission
did net issue. When Sergeant Whitcscll
was discharged, his papers bore the rare
endorsement, "Conduct bxccllcnt,'- whicu
is the highest grade, showing he had net
received a black mark during his whole
term of service. His was the maximum
record of a soldier. Wheu a Democratic
auditor general and state treasurer de
manded the resignation of one of their ap
pointees for complicity in the riot bribery
cases, Sergeant Whitcscll was appointed
te the vacancy. The complexion of the
beard was politically changed last spring
by the induction into office of the new
state treasurer, Hen. Samuel Butler, and
the result was the prompt dismissal of this
crippled soldier te make room for a Re
publican partisan. The governor and
state treasurer testify ever their own sig
natures te the faithfulness of Sergeant
Whitcscll. The governor told him that it
was only for political reasons that he was
dismissed.
This will serve te show that Republicans
have no use for the soldier aside from his
vote. The shriekcrs against a "solid
Seuth" were in the rear buring the war,
but new they are at front and the soldier
is in the rear where the leaders
are determined te keep mm un
less he was a political brigadier and votes
the Republican ticket. Lengstrcct and
Mesby get fat offices because they have be
come Republicans, but men like Sergeant
Whitcscll who were crippled in fighting
Lengstrcct aud Mesby, arc turned out of
office because they refuse te abauden their
principles.
Pointed Paragraphs.
The monument te the memory of the
late Oakcs Ames will cost about 80,000.
General Garfield ought te contribute
about 329 towards making up this
amount, but as he might want it te "go as
a lean " he will net be asked te contri
bute. Under the policy adopted by Democratic
Congress, the rate of internal revenue taxes
has been reduced ; the total revenues have
been increased 49,505,000; the pension
payments te Union soldiers and their fami
lies have been increased $27,320,000 ; and
yet there has been a reduction in the gross
annual expenditures of 5,050,000.
The Abend Pest, a daily German paper
published in Cincinnati, has in past years
been a powerful ally of the Republican
party by virtue of its immense circulation
throughout Ohie and the Western states
generally. It has new declared for Han
cock and English for the very suggestive
reason that it "cannot conscientiously sup
port nominees of the bad character of Gar
field and Arthur." The outlook in Ohie
docs net grew reassuring, Mr. Jewell.
Even his opponents must admire Sec
retary Sherman's readiness te stand by
his Republican returning beard friends.
He has never failed them from the time he
returned from New Orleans. There was
at that time an amusing story current of
his zeal, ne remarked te a very eminent
citizen of Washington, "Sir, the members
of the returning beard are gentlemen :
I they are honorable men ; they are as hon hen
1 est as lam ; as honest as you are--" "Held
en, held, en," cried the gentleman he was
addressing,." held en, Sherman ; you may
compare them with yourself but you must
net compare mem witn me. 1 can't let
you de that." But this only shows that,
as Mrs. Malaprep remarked, "Compari
sons are odorous."
An expectant country still waits for a
copy of that "brief" in the DeGelyer
case, which General Garfield cannot recol
lect that he prepared as a valuable return
for the present of 5,000 which he received
from the lobby agents of De Gelycr. But
Mr. Hendricks has just been laying before
the people of Indianapolis the story of
another "brief" in the Louisiana case,
which Mr. Garfield confesses that he pre
pared expressly te defeat what he knew
from personal investigation te be the de
liberate lawful verdict of the people of
Louisiana given at the polls. Between the
"brief" which he did net prepare and the
"brief" which he did prepare the Repub
lican candidate for the presidency docs net,
it' must be confessed, present a model of
morality in politics for the use of public
schools.
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"THE KOIIBKK'S CAVE."
Fattening Among the Ample Spoils.
New Era.
The "infamous recorder's bill" once
mere turns up, after having enjoyed a
considerable period of quiet, but it doe:;
net come before the people uudcr a mere
favorable guise than it did several years
age, when Governer Ilartranft's signature
made it operative. Our readers must re
member hew the New Era, along with
almost the entire press of the common
wealth, denounced the iniquitous bill.
The Philadelphia papers were almost
without exception fierce iu their de
nunciation of it. It created an office,
as was then believed, expressly te ac
commodate Parden Mill Quay, and its
previsions were se artfully prepared, that
under them a salary exceeding that of the
president of the United States fell te the
let of the happy incumbent. According te
the original pregramme, Quay was ap
pointed te fatten upon the ample spoils of
the ofiice. The election of Governer
Heyt, however, opened a new field, and
the man for whom the office was created
came te an understanding with another
noted politician, David II. Lane, who, un
der that agreement, whose previsions aie
pretty well known, has held tlie place
ever since.
The people of Pennsylvania weie correct
in the views they formed of this miserable
bill of the politicians. It has been a verit verit
able robber's cave into which the hard
earned money of the people has been pem cd
in an unceasing stream, without benefit te
themselves, the community or the state.
but solely that one el the best workers in
the party and a political favorite shall be
able te feather his nest handsomely. But
the long-suffering people are unwilling
te be despoiled any longer through the
medium of this legal chicanery. The last
grand jury of Philadelphia county has
taken up the matter and has spoken some
plain but honest words concerning both it
and the man who fills it. It has brought
the matter te the attention of the court,
and in its prcscntmcht describes the re
corder's office as being the " revival of an
almost forgotten office, increasing its
sphere of jurisdiction, and creating an ex
tensive and exorbitant fee list for the sole
purpose of putting the people's money
into the private pockets of its incumbent,
there being no need whatever for the of
fice, the proper exercise of legislative duty
calling instead for its prompt extinc
tion." -2 a
As this office of recorder w.u instituted
specially te reward political favorites, it
may be no easy matter te secure its aboli
tion, but we believe, en the whele, that a
better clasc of men will go te Harrisburg
next winter than these who se willingly
lent themselves te de the bidding el" their
masters two ycarsage,and that if this mat
ter is brought botere them as this recom
mends, the recorder's office of Philadelphia
may seen be numbered with the things of
the past something which every honest
man must ardently hope for.
STATE ITEMS,
The statu homeeopathic medical society is
iu session in Easten.
W. II. Waters, aged 23, of Mercer, was
struck and instantly killed by the Chicago
express west en the Pennsylvania railroad,
near Stewart station.
The judges of the Pennsylvania state ag
ricultural fair have partially completed
their labors. It was decided yesterday te
keep the fair open en Sunday
Hen. Jehn W. Ryen, of Schuylkill
county, has informed the editor of the
Pettsville Chronicle, that the story of his
having complained of the acongrcssienal
pension committce is false.
The sophomores and freshmen of La
fayette college had a "rush" last-night,
the former endeavoring te break up the
latter's class meeting. The sophomores
were whipped out aud driven from the
building. The affray, which consisted
mainly in the ability te push the hardest,
lasted some time. After it was ever all
shook hands aud adjourned.
One of the candidates for the clemency of
the pardon beard at the next meeting will
be A. W. Wicks, alias Jehnsen, the
brother-in-law of the deceased forger and
confideuco man, Lewis C. Clerment, alias
Colonel Ralph Rollins, and partner of Rol
lins in the attempt, in March. 1870, te
bind and gag Cashier Mcsscrsmith, of the
Charabersburg bank, and plunder the
vault 600,000 en deposit there.
Henry Strahlcr. twenty-two years old,
had an attack of insanity at his home,
1701 Seuth Fifth street, Philadelphia, ami
procuring a razor, inflicted a deep gash in
his threat. He was very violent in his
conduct and a number of people made an
unsuccessful attempt te secure him. It
became necessary te call in four policemen,
making nine persons in all, te attempt the
task of subduing the violent man. He
had become crazy in love with a young
woman in Liverpool, who premised te
marry him and come te the United States.
She disappointed him and his insanity is
attributed te chagrin.
Writing of His Own Kebbcrlc.
Henry Shcrbahn, of Middlerewn, Pa., a
writer for the Ilarrisburg Independent,
has been taken te the penitentiary sen
tenced te a term of one year for larceny.
Fer several months past Middlctewn had
been greatly annoyed by midnight rob
beries, and no clue could be obtained te the
perpetrators. All of these robberies were
chronicled by Shcrbahn in his newspaper
correspondence, and his accounts were
surprisingly accurate. A few weeks age
au account of a robbery at Middlctewn,
appeared in the Independent ever Sher
bahn's signature, and the crime was net
discovered by the owner of the property
until he had read of it in the paper and
made an investigation. After that Shcr
bahn was suspected aud watched. He was
seen coming out of a store at an early hour
and the proprietor discovered that it had
been robbed. An account appeared in the
papcrand Sherbahn was at once arrested.
He confessed his crimes before he was
tried.
Flerida Orange Crep Destroyed.
Washington Star.
The recent gale which was se disastrous
te shipping swept ever Flerida, stripping
the erange groves of the nearly ripe fruit,
and, se widespread was the storm, that
there is no doubt that the Flerida orange
crop this year has been destroyed. The
season had been unusually productive, the
fruit being entirely full grown, but new
lies en the ground worthless. It was es
timated that the vield would be about a
million of boxes, and it is doubtful whether I
there is enough left te make a shipment
for the Northern market. The lass is es
timated at 1,500,000.
Iu Crpty te Sherman.
Baltimore Cictti.
At a I).::u uratie meeting iu Phifculel;
phLi the ether night Speaker Randall made
a brief Let i::vineing reply te Secretary
Shci man's pretense that Democratic suc
cess in the presidential election would in
volve the pa ment of Southern claims. In
the first place Mr. Randall pointed out
that the fmutecuth amendment te the con
stitution, which the Gazette has quoted .
several times in answer te the stalwart
outcry en this point, forbids the payment
of all such claims in the most unequivocal
terms. This amendment, said Mr. Ran
dall, has b.'eu acquiesced in by all the
people, "and nnvhere has it be:n mere
emphatieali. and sincerely accepted than
by the people of the Seuth."
Iu the second place Mr. Randall showed
that the only Southern claims that have
ever been seriously entertained are these
which have been paid by Republican Con
gresses. Oa this point he quoted from a
speech by Congressman Lockwood, of New
Yerk, as fellows : " Mr. Speaker, I think
it cannot be denied that every law or de
cision of the ceuits under and by virtue of
which Southern claims have been paid,
and under which payment is new claimed,
was originated ami enacted by a Republi
can Congress and interpreted by a
Republican judiciary, all the offices
of the government since the clese of
the war prier te the Forty-fourth Con
gress, legislative and executive, having
been held by the Republican party. In
addition te passing nil laws under which
payment could be made, we find that the
Republican party, prier te 1876, had act
ually paid of the Southern claims mero
than 100,090,000." In a speech iu the
Senate Senater Morten, of Indiana, the
famous leader el the stalwart wing of the
Republican party, advocated the payment
of these claims en the ground that it would
tend te "build up a loyal party" in the
Seuth. Tlie claims were accordingly paid
up te the return of the Democrats te
power iu the Heuse of Representatives.
Since then the payment of Southern claims
of every kind has ceased. The facts iu
the case fully justify the indignant words
with which Mr. Randall ended his speech.
" Hew unjust and untruthful," said he,
"are the Sherman allegations against the
Democratic party in the particulars I have
called te your attention. The truth of the
record sweeps aside the secretary's asser
tions as the hurricane sweeps the dead
leaves from the trees iu autumn, and this
distinguished citizen stands convicted of
the most unjustifiable misrepresentation."
Where the Ciii.il float Ueitge Won't Werk.
Willianipert ilaimcr.
Judge Wf-Si'ill, of Luzerne, has been in
terviewing Superintendent Bishop, of the
Delaware canal company, as te the poli
tics of the b.) itineu employed en the canal,
lie says: 'Tluie arc 100 beats in motion
en every 18 miles of the canal daily.
This giv. s a total of 600 beats continually
moving. Tliero"are also 100 lying light or
leaded :.t cither end of the canal, and
about 50 beaU carrying general freight,
or a grand total of 750 votes. The beats
average two voters each, or 1,500 voters
nearly as many as the county of Pike.
Bishop estimates the vote for president
and vice piesidcnt as follews: Hancock
and English, 1,375 votes; Gailield and
Aithur, 125 ; the freight men nearly all
voting the Republican ticket, while the
coal men, h.mly sons of toil, stand by the
Democracy. The employees of the com
pany stand i.i about the same ratio as the
boatmen. A man can travel all day en
their weiks and net find a Garfield and
Aithur voter." Let the chairman of the
Republican stat.s committce issue seme
mere pictures. That first let did'nt pro
duce geed results. About four out of ev
ery live beats that pass through this city
lly the Hancock colors
Heuiedics for JMnrrhwa.
The following arc collated for thoEclee theEclee
tic. Jfediml J.n'rmtl by L. II. Washington,
M. D.:
Aromatic syiupef rhubarb and petassa,
1 ounce; pulv. catechu, 6 te 8 grains.
Mix. De.-c 1 te 2 tcaspoenfuls every
three lieiisf. This docs net suddenly lock
up the bewcls,but gradually and certainly
checks the diarrhic.i in a few days.
Of special value in diarrhecaef consump censump
tives: Subuitraie of bismuth, 5 te 15 grains,
three times a day; or tannate of bismuth,
10 te 20 grain-, two or three times a day.
Syrup of rhubarb, paregoric, spts. of
camphor, equal parts. Mix. Dese 1
teaspoon ful every two or three hours, as
needed.
Fer diarrheea of infants due te indiges
tion; Powdered ipecac, 1 grain; rhubr-b,
2 grains ; bicarbonate of soda, 5 grains.
Mix and divide into 12 powders. Dese
One every four te six hours te an infant 1
year old.
Valuable te cheek the premonitory diar
xhcea during cholera epidemics: Tincture
of kine and simple syrup, each one-half
ounce; laudanum, 2 drachms; chloroform,
1 drachm; peppermint water, 1 ounces.
Mix. Duse Tenspneiifnl in a little water
whenever the diarrheea is troublesome.
The SteriiiH.
The storm along the New Jersey coast
was very severe yesterday, the wind reach -ing
a velocity of from 50 te 60 miles an
hour. The tide at Leng Branch and
elsewhere was the highest for many years,
and there was great destruction of
bath houses along the shore. Much
wreck stud" was washed upon the
beach. A portion of the New Jersey
Southern railroad, between Highlands sta
t ion and Seabright, was washed away, but
the break was repaired in a few hours.
The heavy rain iu Virginia, which has
new lasted three days, causes fears for the
safety of the unsecured crops in the river
valleys. Jt is said the tobacco crop has
been greatly damaged in many localities.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
HrlckcTVllle Correspondence.
That black eat, whose presence in a
bread chest se frightened a young lady re
cently at Elizabeth Farms, is evidently of
the opinion that it struck a big bonanza in
the pantry, as it. was again found en
sconced in the receptacle for rations of the
"staff,"' but this time it did net frighten
anybody veiy badly.
There was another party held en the
premises of mine host Zartman, in Biick
crvillc, en Saturday night. There was
geed music and an abundance of "fun"
with seme fighting thrown in by way of
evci hires. Sonic cads, who won't be al
lowed te vote for three years, were hurrah
ing for Garfield, and when some ene
hurrahed for Hancock aud English these
juvenile Republicans showed fight ; they
sailed in aud get what they deserved a
drubbing.
In noticing the state fair the Philadelphia
Recerd of te day says : "Mr. Celin Cam Cam
eeon, of Lancaster county, Pa., exhibits
Lilly Black, a 7-year-old chestnut marc,
by Black's Hamblctenian, dam by Scclcy's
American Star, and a yearling filly named
Shamrock Maid, by Shamrock, he by
Rysdyk's I Iamb Jctenian. The daughter of
Black's HambJetenian is a bloed-Iiko look
ing mare, finelv put together, and should
be very valuable Ibrstockpurpescs. Sham
rock Maid is ene of the most attractive
youngsters en exhibition, and she appears
very premising.
The Clese of the Light.
The bright light seen in a northern di
rection fiem this city en Tuesday night
was caused by the burning of a house be
longing te Henry Bchmer, and situated en
Owl hill, about a mile and a half from
Lititz.
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