pLiAiy v'fe-aWWr V. -: 'W-.g t?V' S Wii jr , i'i.ju,i, n J.s.--i.u J-J. - , V' '?..:.1,IJJ!'-1" . V .V,'.JT,'-'J tVJL?J- 3A-'5i. JHPi. rfli -:a - ?. - " - f ye""'- Jt i r '- - "-' '. .-' vv r-:-' 5""Si T. r --'r.Z I . J. '-l 'y l--"-.-3E ' - - r . -. --- - - -- - . " " .- " - :"?-. -v-i-v" -1. .. .-r"-'' "- - ' - . -- i - LANCASTER JDA1LY iMEIXlUKNi 'Ml.IBIDAT; SEPTEMBER 17, 1680. .'."- f.V ' " 5" ..iv. ;' V laifctetet f utelltgencet "VBIDAT EVENING, SEPT. 17, 1880. - A Valuable Place. Somebody has discovered that Garfield is net eligible te the presidency because of the law which make congressmen who have taken illegal fees incapable of there, after holding office under the United States. Ne doubt there is such a law and it is a geed one. There is as little doubt that Garfield comes under its pro pre visions ; but if nevertheless be is elected te the presidency by the people, they may be considered te have practically abro gated the law, and it should be promptly repealed by the Democratic Congress. If the people select for their president a man who has been guilty of the many sins of emission and commission, charged and -proved against Garfield, they should net vbe balked by the law of their choice. This is a democratic country in which the people govern. If they elect a male factor of any degree te the presidency, with full knowledge of his misdeeds, they are entitled te have their will ex ecuted and their man inaugurated. We may set aside Garfield's conduct in the Credit Mebilier matter, in which he has one Democratic friend in Judge Black te avow his innocence ; but we cannot forget that he took a fee of five thousand dollars te secure the adoption of a patent pavement in Washington while he was chairman of the committee that was te appropriate the money te pay for it. This fact is undenicd and unexplained. Ne defense is offered for it. It is simply passed by in silence by the political friends of the Republican candidate. It was an improper thing te de and an unlawful thing. Xe one can contend otherwise. If Garfield is elected it will be with the full knowledge of these who vote for him that he did as congressman what the law forbid him te de and what it punishes him for by making him ineligible te office. They knew that they are voting for a man who is barred, by Ins admitted act, from the high office they seek te elevate him te. If a majority of the people de this they will condemn the moral and statute law which declares that" their, rep resentatives shall net be pecuniarily in terested in the matters upon which they legislate. They will set it aside, as whole some as it seems te be. Hereafter it will be iermitted te all the people's re presentatives te mingle their own inter ests with their constituents',and te make their votes equally available for both. With this understanding the position of congressmen, if Garfield is elected, will become very valuable. The Bad People in Maine. Mr. Blaine's complaint about the Democratic use of money in Maine seems te excite general amusement ; and Mr. Blaine himself has concluded te discredit it by discovering that the Deme cratic victory was net bought after all, and in fact does net exist. The ltepub lican defeat , for which he was in haste te find a cause, net existing, the cause tee must be non-existent. Mr. Blaine's followers, as he new leeks at it, have net been se corrupt as he thought them. The Democrats may have been wicked enough te try te buy them, but they were net vile enough te yield. Mr. Blaine ewes them an apology. Instead of proffering it he puts upon his French fellow-citizens in one of the outlying districts a charge of habitual fraud at elections ; and the ltepublican expecta tion of the election of Davis seems te be based entirely upon the hope e " an honest vote and honest return in the French plantations of Aroostook coun ty." It is singular that Chairman Barnum seems te have no better opinion of the honesty of Mr. Blaine and the Maine Republicans than Mr. Blaine has of the Maine Democrats. If both sides are believed, jwc may safely conclude that there is net much honesty in Maine. Probably the adher ents of each party will be persuaded te fellow the idea of their leaders and te be lieve that the opposite party is guilty of of all the wickedness that is practised up in Maine. Mr. Blaine probably will per suade his fellow Republicans te believe in the Democratic corruption which he charged when he thought he was beaten and which he still thinks may ruin him in Aroostook. Mr. Blaine unfortunate, ly has a reputation which does net en ablehim te threw stones at hisneighbers. The Democrats of Maine may be bad, but Mr. Blaine is net the man te be be lieved in accusing them of evil. Mr. Bar num had this advantage in his charge of fraud upon the Maine Republicans, that it is something which the world will be easily persuaded te"belicve of Mr. Blaine, who is known te be in no way scrupul ous about the means te his ends. TnE sympathy of the young men of America will go out te the young Ulysses en the less of the fair Floed who was te bear him a dowry of millions. Tiiat he did net mere quickly seize his fortune and mere discreetly behave himself no doubt he new deeply regrets. Many ethers have had the same grief before him. It is impossible always te be wise but still when wisdom is te be rewarded with a nice girl presumably she is nice and two and a half mil lions of dollars in addition, certainly the inducements te wisdom are great. But the wise man is net the sud den creation of an hour. The youth gains wisdom by dear purchase as the years move en. Yeung Ulysses pays a large price for his ; we wish for him that he could have had the experience at less cost. We are sorry te see such a flood of fortune pass by a young man who net long age was looked upon as a possible prince, and who some people yet expect te hail as such. Probably old Floed don't. It may be that it is the present gloominess of the im perial prospects of thcGrant family which has caused these riches of the Floods te take wings and pass away from the embrace of the young Ulysses. Itmayjbe that papa Floed no longer sees the scales balance between his daughter's geld and charms and the young Grant's worth werth lessness and expectations. But the Floods, having the advantage of the sit sit iiatjen, ought te keep cool; which we regret they de net all dq.l- Probably tb old .man is happy and the young jladj. content ; but the son has felt it necessary te feel aggrieved and. thrash somebody. He ought net te have done it. The tone of the Republican journals ever the defeat in Maine is very familiar te us. It is that which we have se often in the past found ourselves compelled te adept ever the discouraging results in the early elections in presidential years. It never saved us though. We might as well have acknowledged the corn and given up the fight. The extraordinary energy which the disaster was te bring out, thus proving itself a blessing in dis guise, never snatched the brand from the burning. It was love's labor lest. MINOR TOPICS. Canai. keats de net ply between Men Men eor, Ohie, and the White Heuse. Plaisted says he will take the stump for Hancock if the Maine Greenbackcrs nominate a separate electoral ticket. Chairman Baknum hat: declined the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth Connecticut district. He prefers te devote all his attention and energies te the Democratic national canvass. Kilpatkick has finally get something. It is a nomination for Congress in a Jersey district, which has a funny habit of giving four or five thousand Democratic majority. Anybody can see what a geed thing Kil patrick has finally struck. General. Weaver new expects the Greenbackcrs te carry Texas and West Virginia, with hopes of support from In diana and Maine. General Weaver may net have much chance for the presidency, but he manages te keep himself before tbc public pretty well. Ouu esteemed Republican exchanges arc certain Garfield will carry Maine in No vember ; but they also had a dead sure thing en 10,000 majority and all the Cen. gressmen last Monday. Still there is no law te step whistling te keep your cour age up. It is rather commendable. Wayne MacVeagii says te Ids Republi can friends : " In the present- contest the intelligence, rather than the passions of the people, should be appealed te ;" but Jehn Cessna says the people ,c vote through their eyes," and that a bloody shirt, a canal beat and a mule will prove mere effi cacious than argument. Consider what Lengstrcf.t and Mesby arc doing for the Republican party ! Theirs arc the same principles of hate and disunion for which they fought for four years, and they arc the mcn that are re warded by Republicans -with fat offices at New Orleans and Heng; Koug te repay them for the defeat they sustained at the hands of Hancock, McCIclIan, Meade, Hoeker, Resccrans and ether Democratic e Dicers and soldiers. Senater McDonald, of Indiana, said, in reply te an inquiry about the Indiana canvass and the probable effect of the Maine election upon it : "The canvass in Indiana is proceeding satisfactorily. I have never doubted our ability te carry the state, and am new mere firmly convinced of it than ever before. The great disaster which has befallen the RcpublicGn party in Maine is a crushing blew, from which it will net recover. Its effect in our state will be te inspire our people, bring ever doubtful voters, and add thousands te our majority." The nomination of Hen. Frank Jenes for governor bythe Democrats of Xcw Hampshire makes a hand-te-hand battle in that usually reliable Republican state in November. He is the most popular man of the party in New Hampshire, and one of the most public-spirited citizens the state can beast of. Be has twice carried a decided Republican district for Congress, and the Maine election has made him ac cept the nomination that he had previously declined. His acceptance means that both himself and his party believe he can be elected, and that is half the battle in a doubtful struggle. PERSONAL. Mmc. Gerster will sail from Liverpool iu the steamer City of Richmond en the 23d inst. for New Yerk. Acklen, of Louisiana, having failed te be reneminated in the regular Democratic convention, will run as a belting candi date for Congress. Ex-Postmaster General Key presided in the United States court at Knoxville, Tcnn., en Wednesday for the first time since his retirement from the cabinet. Iu spite of the denials, the statement proves te be authentic that the engage ment between Ulysses S. Grant, jr., and Miss Feed has been broken off. Mrs. Langtry's popularity in Londen must be en the wane. She is new back in Jersey and says she is se delighted te find herself there that she intends never te go back te the great city. Madame Blanc, widow of Monace Blanc, wants te give te her daughter, the future Princess Reland Bonaparte, the great Pitt diamond as a wedding present. This diamond is new one of the French Crown jewels and Madame Blanc is treating with the government for the stone. Senater McDonald, of Indiana, is East and tells all inquirers there is no doubt but that Indiana will give a Deme cratic majority in both October and No vember, and that the result of the Maine election will have a tendency te augment that majority. The senator denies that there is any dissatisfaction among the leading Democrats of Indiana, but says that perfect harmony exists and abound ing confidence. Lord Beaconsfield, when he was the Disraeli of only twenty-two years, was a remarkable looking young fellow. He had a pale, almost delicate face, jet black hair clustered in curls en a marble brew, beneath which flashed strangely brilliant black eyes. His figure was slender and lithe, and he were a dress coat of bjack velvet, white kid gloves with draperies of black silk fringe falling from the wrists ever his hands, and a waist-coat resplen dent with geld lace. The remains of the late Hen. Frank lin Steele, formerly of this city, who died suddenly in Minneapolis, Minn., en Thursday last, arrived at Washintrten yes terday and wcre interred today in Oak Hill, cemetery. The pall-bearers were Admirals Peer,. Stanley and Afcny, and Dr. Maxwell, of the United States navy ; Dr. Norris, United States army ; Colonel McCawley, United States marine corps ; Hen. J. J. Knox, comptroller of tbc cur rency, and Mr. Nile. m t..VNDEKS-reKTEi:. The Joint Debate Between the liidUuu Gubernatorial Candidates A Speci men of Hoosier 1'eUticaI Journalism. Indianapolis Sentinel. Never in the history of Indiana politics, in the history of joint debates between men of opposing politics, has anything oc curred se well calculated te sink Republi canism te soundless depths of contempt as the joint debate between Landers and Perter. Landers is superb. He drives straight at the mark. He makes his charges clear, cutting, direct, and then, turning upon Perter, dares him, chal lenges him te reply. Perter is a political sneak. He relics upon his abilities te dodge, te get away into dark cornets, and when attacked with arguments te reply as a coward replies. In no single instance does Perter reply te Landers. His import ed prompters, his clackcrs, his hangers-en, his fawning, cringing, servile, slavish fol lowers have te help him through. He has his flunkeys and spaniels about him, and near him. In every engagement Por Per ter has his lick-spittles and toad-caters around him. It is worth while for the pcej pie te make a note of the fact that Perter has no confidence iu himself ; he has no sand no backbone, lie is a political men dicant. Left te himself, he is a partisan gnat a Republican mesquite whom Frank Landers kills between his thumb and finger. Frank Landers, the man of farms and factories, the man whose foi fei foi tune gives work and wages te the people, the man of toil, who is in sympathy with the great enterprises of Indiana, takes Albert (i. Perter by Jus head and by the feet, and shakes him in the presence of the people, aud makes him odious ; and all the while Albert G. Perter has at least two men te tell him what te say in reply, and but for such helps Albert G. Perter would be of no mere force than a dead grasshopper in a Kansas hurricane. Perter has te be coached. He has a small head, a small neck aud big feet. His hair shows that he is weak. It is neither red, white or gray ; it is net flaxen. Perter is net an Albine but he is cfi'cmiuate. Put him in pautclettcs and he would pass for a dell. He is a parrot. He says what his trainers aud bottle-holders tell him te say. He says words as sewing machines make stitches, lie isa machine. He acts as he Is acted upon. He is in the hands of Republican conspirators, who groom him, curry him, feed him, harness him aud drive him. He is never out of their sight. They doubt him. They rub the legs of his arguments. They supply him with fiction, which he is directed te swear is fact. They think he is a bull because he can bellow and paw dirt. They put the blue ribbons en hint because they say he takes the first prize as a Republican donkey. They point te him as a Republican masculine swine, and invite the people te survey his snout aud hear his sonorous grunt. Land ers puts questions te him and challenges him te answer. Perter replies with as much directness as he would if Landers' questions related te heaven or hell, instead of the record of the Republican party. In deed, he docs net reply te Landers' ques tions at all. It is grand te sec Franklin Landers alone, relying upon himself, self poised, confident and aggressive, while Perter takes with hint a set of prompters, who supply hint with fiction, who pull him, prompt him, preg him, aud supply him with nonsense. These trained boot blacks, who arc expected te polish Perter ; these hired barbers who aic expected te invigorate Perter by rubbing and scratching him ; the quack doctors, whose business it'is te supply him with po litical nostrums, jjettcn up expressly for the campaign, corked aud labeled. Landers is a man. Perter is a mouse. Landers re lics upon himself. Perter upon his clackcrs. Landers isa statesman . Perter is a dema gogue. Landers asks him live questions. Perter comes back with old worn-out bloody shirtisms. Landers is direct. Perter circumlecutcs. Landers is brave. Perter is a coward who docs net meet any issue. lie is a political knave. Landers is of the people, with the people one of the people. Perter had get the dropsy of aristocracy. He is big iu the calves of his legs and in his abdominal enlargement ; but iu his brain pewci his political manhood, he is defi cient. His political acumen is iu his intestines, and his logic comes from his liver. He is fed ensalts,and his efforts par take largely of the cathartic style of ora tory. His hair curls. It is kinky. His ideas, like his hair are a mass of entangle ments. Perter is a political fraud. He lacks soul. Te hear him is like listening te the ceaseless chirp of a katydid, the monoto nous hoetings of au owl or the refrains of a bull-frog. He is as much of a statesman as a bat is an eagle. He is as much of a politician as a jackass is an $ Arabian courser. lie is reported te have discarded his old father iu the days of the old man's poverty ; and when that father wrapped his old coat ever his dirty shirt, it is said that his son Albert discarded him. Such a boy if what is charged is true, and no Republican organ or orator has denied it is net the man for governor of Indiana. SHE STOPPED HIS FAST. Eircct of a Fit at Hysterics en the IJroeKljii Tunncrite. The wife of Charles Livingston, the man who began a fast nine days age at Ne. 5 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, is a head taller than he is, weighs mere, aud has set her face like a fliut against the fast. She ex hausted her persuasive powers of all kinds, however, aud went home yesterday. Pre sently a rumor she was sick with anxi ety and had taken te her bed reached the faster. He still fasted. At 11 p. m. a man ran into the hall aud breathlessly exclaimed that Mrs. Livingstone had com mitted suicide. The faster threw his pledges te the wind, ran out of the hall, get a doctor, and hurried te his home at Ne. 338 Atlantic avenue. He found his wife's apparently in convulsions. A cup containing insect powder was handy en a stand near the bed. The ambulance was summoned te remove Mrs. Liv ingston te the hospital, but Livingston said that she should net go. Dr. Stuart said that there was nothing the matter with Mrs. Livingston, and that, although she appeared te have taken poison she probably had net done se. Mrs. Living ston grew better after her husband said that he would stay at home, and it is thought that she will be all right by this evening. She was once a female pedestrian known as Mme. Waldcr. STATE ITEMS. The registry of Allegheny county shows 77,6S3 votes. Themas II. Palmer, of Bradford, fell down a flight of stairs and was instantly killed. A little child of Rebert Patterson was run ever by a wagon in Pittsburgh and killed. Mr. Henry Kcinard, residing at Forge Hill, Lewer Windser township, about one mile below Margareta Furnace, committed suicide by hanging himself in his bed. room en Monday afternoon, leth inst. Near the village of Garfield, Berks county, there is a family in which there arc six daughters, all of which rejoice iu the name of Ann, as follews: Mary Ann, Lizzie Ann, Sarah Ann, Catbarine Ann, Julia i Ann and Elmira Ann. ;In a family at Lincoln, Lancaster county, there are five Anns REPUBLICAN ROGUERY. DESl'EEATE EFFORTS TO BEVERSE THE RESULT IK MAINE. After a Warm Telegraphic Correspondence With the Successors of Z. Chandler, Blaine New Claims the Election of his Candidate as Chan dler Falsely Claimed a Majority for Hayes iu IeulsIanaia November. 1S76. Plaisted Says lie Will Take his Seat. Whatever be the real facts as te the election of Plaisted or Davis, the action of Republican county and town officials in holding back the returns gives foundation for the charge that the Republicans mean te seat Davis as governor by fair means or foul. They claim that returns from all but 26 towns gives Davis a plurality of 246. Allowing these towns the samojvetc as last year. Davis would have a plurality of 146. The Maine Republican papers te-day claim Davis's election, and deprecate any doctor ing of returns. This is just what the Democrats, however, claim is being done. The Augusta Standard says editorially that the Republican managers are holding back the correct returns either te manipu late them or weaken the effect of the crushing defeat. Private advices at Au gusta from 425 towns give Davis less then 70 plurality. The towns te be heard from gave last year a Fusion majority of 120. Gen. Plaisted says he will net be counted out but will take his scat if he has but one majority. The constitutional amendments arc adopted, making a plurality elect the governor. The governor and council must within thirty days, count the vete en the constitutional amendments. The vote for state officers is te be counted by the Leg islature at its meeting next winter and the Republican Legislature will" doubtless de clare that the amendments, already de clared adopted by the present Republican governor and council, will be eperative ft out their adoption, and will held geed for the election just held. Blaine's despairing cry te Garfield, con ceding the election of Plaisted, seems te have been far less acute than was expected of him. Te-day he repents of it. He has received great quantities of telegrams from Republicans in all parts of the country. A private despatch received here says that Colliding, Cernell and Jewell were in close consultation in New Yerk te-day, and that they were in constant communication with the Republican manugers here. The Re publicans have the entire machinery for counting and the case is desperate. But they must make the majority for Davis, a small one at best, and the fact remains that there has been a less of nearly 15,000 Republican votes since the election for governor in the presidential contest of 187G. " Evidence is accumulating that the Re publican managers are manipulating re turns te show a plurality for Davis. Meas. urcs will be taken te obtain copies of the records in each town and city, and if the result shows that a plurality of the votes as cast were for Gcu. Plaisted, he will be inaugurated governor. The opinion is be coming general among the Democrats here that a repetition en a small scale et the fraud of 187G is under way in this state, and the public excitement is rising te a high pitch. James G. Blaine, it is freely charged, controls the press despatches sent from the state. The News in New Yerk. The Democrats were net se much alarm ed at the news ofthe possible counting out of Plaisted as might at first be supposed. They leek upon the matter very quietly, and there were net a few who hoped that Plaisted would be "counted out." If this were done, it was said, the Republicans would lese thousands of votes in Indiana. Ohie, Pennsylvania aud New Yerk. " I only hope Davis will be declared elected" a prominent Democrat remarked last night te a Herald reporter. What de we care who is governor of Maine ? The ofiicedocs net amount te anything in a political sense, particularly as the Republicans are said te have control of the Legislature. If Plais ted were declared elected he could de us no geed. The idea is, however, that if the Republicans count him out the people will be very apt te rise en masse in Ne vembcr and avenge the wrong." The subject of the election is still the leading theme of visitors te Governer's Island, aud then the talk usually branches oil" into prophecies of Democratic victories in ether states regarded heretofore as far mere doubtful than Maine. Telegrams arc also being sent te General Hancock en the subject, of which the following are samples : Majer General W. S. Hancock, United States Army, Governer's Island : Maine redeemed, our new star in the East shines brightest its name Hancock. Bayonet net fit instrument for collecting freemen's votes. Well spoken High Chief. Eugene Casseklt. Te this dispatch General Hancock scut the following reply : Eugene Cassekly, San Francisce, Cal.: Your dispatch received. Result en At lantic front is very encouraging. May it be equalled at least en the Pacific coast, te which I am warmly attached, with which I am identified by early associations, aud whose interests I understand, and in any sphere of life would always endeavor te promote. AY. S. Hancock. The next telegram is from Mr. Jeseph Pulitzer, of St. Leuis, and is is sent from that city : GenkkaIj Hancock : Yeu will greatly oblige your numerous friends here by telegraphing your opinion about the effect of the Maine election. Please telegraph at once. Jeseph Pulitzer. The following answer was sent by Gen eral Hancock : Jeseph Pulitzer, St. Leuis : Your telegram received asking what I think the effect of the Maine election will be. I think it will lead te pure and effi cient administration of our public affairs, te burying sectionalism, cementing the Union and perpetuating representative government. But instead of permitting us te relax our labors it imposes the neces sity of increasing them. Te resist the des pcratc efforts of our opponents harder work than ever is required of our friends in the crowning victory. W. S. Hancock. Apropos of the Maine election General Hancock has received the following tele gram dated at Banger, Me., from Mr. Plaisted, the alleged newly elected Demo cratic governor of Maine, in response te tire one sent te him and published yester day: General W. S. Hancock, Governer's Is land : Thanks for your congratulations en the glorious victory of our plain people in op position te class legislation and te a sixth term. We fused and wen a Union vic tory. H. M. Plaisted. Among the earliest visitors yesterday was Senater Bayard. His Southern trip and campaign speeches in Virginia aud Seuth Carolina seem te have improved him wonderfully in health, for he leeks mere robust than when he called en General Hancock several years age. He and the general had quite a protracted conference. Like ether leading Democratic politicians he feels very buoyant ever the Maine election, which he regards an indication of a growing desire en the part of the people for a change in the adminstratien. He things the Democratic tidal wave has set in in earnest and that there is very little doubt of a most triumphant victory in No vember next. TTnn.lilnfmiAfl fAVVtlM.rk 1,A te4- 11 beautiful trotting stallion, wjll trot at the Harrisbnrg driving park en Wednesday ana inursaay next. TO TOTE IN OHIO. Tea Days' Lcare With Fay te Men Who Were .Refused Fay for Lesal Holidays. The following appears in the Washing ton National Republican; ft "A report was received from a commit tee stating that the voters in the govern ment printing office and the bureau of engraving and printing would he allowed ten days' days' leave of abseuce with pay, giving them an opportunity te deposit their votes. The work of sending docu ments is being carried en in a thorough manner. The meeting adjourned till next Tuesday night." It is undoubtedly true that the scalpers will be patronized. The campaign com mittee cannot afford te pay full fare for the boys. What is noteworthy about the item, however, is that the employees of the printing office and of the bureau of engrav ing and printing are te be allowed "ten days' leave of absence, with pay, giving them an opportunity te deposit their votes." Last Christmas, New Year's and Washington's birthday the government printing office and the bureau of engraving and printing wcre closed, because each day was a public holiday. Fer these days Pubiic Printer Derrees and Cel. Irish re fused te give their printers their wages. All the ether employees of the govern ment had their holidays and were paid as though they had worked. Defrccs receiv ed his pay, and Cel. Irish, head of the bureau of engraving and printing, received his, but they refused te pay their working men and women. This injustice was rem edied by the Democratic congress, which en the Cth of April, passed a joint resolu tion declaring the days named, with the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving te be legal holidays ler the employees of the government printing office. As Decora tion Day was coming round. Defrccs or dered that the office sneuld be closed en that day without pay te the employees. Again the Democratic congress rebuked him by passing the following : " Whereas, The superintendent of the government printing office has ordered that said office he closed en said day with out pay te the employees ; and, " Whereas, All employees of ether de partments are entitled te pay for said day ; thorefero, "Resolved by the Senate and Heuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all employees of the government iu the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be and they arc hereby declared te be entitled te payment for said 29th day of May. When the Bureau of Engraving aud Printing was removed last spring te its new building there wcre a number of days when the employees could de no work. Fer these days of enforced idleness they received no pay. Many of these employ ees are peer women, and cannot afford te go a single day without their earnings. Nevertheless, Colonel Irish insisted that he could net pay for a single day or hour during which work was net actually done. This had also been the plea of De- frees. Notwithstanding these assertions these two worthies new offer ten days' holiday, with pay, in return for votes iu Ohie. Did they lie te their peer employees when they said they could net pay them for holidays, or arc they new defrauding the geverment in the interest of the Re publican party ? Garfield and the Great Fraud. Sew Xerk Sun. And what are the facts? When it be came known in 1876 that the pcepls in Louisiana has chosen the Tildcn electors by eight thousand majority, Garfield was selected, with ethers, te go te New Orleans and induce the returning beard te threw out the Tildcn majority, and falsely ecrtify the election of the Hayes ticket. The work was divided among them. West Feliciana was assigned te Garfield. It was the most difficult job of all. Fer eighteen days he sat in an "inner room" et the Custom-house manipulating evidence, tampering with negre witnesses, and writing out interrogatories te be pro pounded te them by Madisen Wells of the returning beard. The ether visiting states men were engaged at the same business, and when the mass of perjuries and for geries was completed they left Louisiana, assured that the beard would complete the crime, and certify the election of the de feated candidates. At Bellaire, Ohie, en their way te Washington, they received a dispatch that the work was done, and that se far as that state was concerned the con spiracy against the presidency was suc cessful. When the electoral hill was under dis cussion in the Heuse Garfield freely de clared his opinion that under its previsions the judges would be cempclcd by their oaths te go behind the certificates of the returning beards te ascertain aud declare the truth. Yet when, as a member of the commission, he had taken a special and solemn oath te render a "true judgment," he voted every time with the iu famous eight, net te examine, net te leek at the cvidcuce of fraud, net te go behind the false certificates, net te disturb the work of his ewii bauds during these eighteen days of secret labor with the wit nesses in Packard's inner room of the New Orleans custom house. Here was the manufacturer of the evidence sitting as a judge in the very case which he had him self made np, and repudiating his own in terpretation ofthe law te save the fraud which he had himself fabricated. This is the true account of Garfield as visiting statesman aud member of the commission, which Mr. Hendricks draws from the rec ord, and substantiates by Garfield's own testimony. He might have added that, when the decisions ofthe commission were imperilled by the refusal of the Southern Representa tives te go en with the fraudulent count, this honorable judge crawled down from the bench iute midnight conference, as the special agent of one of the parties before his court, and there made a corrupt com pact by which Packard, the man who lent him the "inner room," and the whole Republican party of Louisiana were basely betrayed and surrendered te their enemies. Such was his judical honor and such his personal gratitude. s VIRGINIA DEMOCBAT3. The Efferts at Compromise. The Virginia Readjusters' committee in session at Richmond yesterday, rejected the plan of compromise offered by the Democratic state committee of which an eutline was published in the Intelligen cer recently, and which provides for the formation of a mixed electoral ticket, te be made up of five of the conservative electors and five of the rcadjustcr electors the eleventh elector lobe named by the Democratic national committee or chosen by let. They reject the plan proposed by the conservative committee, net out of any indisposition te unite the supporters of Hanceck and English, but out of the belief that the proposed plan is net calcu lated te accomplish the object sought ; yet in consideration of apprehensions which exist outside that a division of the party may result in the lass te the Demo cracy of the electoral vote of Virginia, which apprehensions arc net shared in by by teo readjusters, they propose that the electoral ticket question be settled by a primary election, te be held en the l(Jth of October, at which all persons shall be allowed te vote who pledge themselves te vote for Hancock and English. The reply will be submitted te the conservative com mittee this evening. Jehn Carr, a brakeman, while cutting a train of cars at Pittsburgh, slipped and fell upon the track, the wheels passing ever one arm, cutting it off near the wrist. The right leg was dislocated at the hip joint and the flesh was tern from the bone. He died of his injuries. THE WAX OF THE WIRES. The American Union and the Western Union Election. Notices of the election te cheese direc tors of the Western Union telegraph com pany were issued yesterday. The election is te be held en October 13, and the trans fer books are te be closed en September 20. Accompanying the notices sent te stockholders are proxy blanks requesting stockholders te authorize Nerviu Green, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, E. D Morgan and Augustus Schcll, or any ene of them, te act in their places at the election. The San says : The request of the present management for proxies indicates that opposition is expected, for it has net been customary toniakesucha request. The opposition te the present management, which is that of the Vanderbilt party, is te come from Jay Gould. Ever since Gould started his own telegraph company, the American Union, a year age, the fight between the two companies has been bitter. Attempts te head off the new company have been made at many points. The most important suits in opposition where theso in the matter ofthe Page patents, and the series of suits relating te the possession of the wires along the Pacific rail roads. The street has at times been filled with rumors te the effect that it was enty a question of time when the new company would be absorbed by the Western Union, but these rumors have been less frequent of late. It is generally believed that Gould desires te bring about some sort of an alliance between his com pany and the Western Union, and seeks te obtain a voice in the management of the latter as a means towards that end. Several friends of the Western Union have sold a considerable number of shares of the stock recently, aud the shares delivered en the sales de nt stand in their names, indicating that they bor rowed stock with which te make the de liveries, and are holding their own stock till after the transfer books have been closed, seas te be able te retain nominal ownership and vote en the same. Western Union stock Ins been borrowed en all sides within the past few days, evidently for election purposes, as there is no great short interest. Yesterday one-sixteenth of 1 par cent, per day was paid for the use of the stock, and one-eighth of 1 per cent, was paid for proxies. A well-known Bread street brokerage house is advertis ing extensively for proxies. The Angry Floed. San Francisce is .excited ever a len len len contre between Mr. Rebert E. Culbrish and Mr. J. C. Floed, jr., a son of the mil lionaire of the Comstock lode. It is un derstood that Mr. Floed charged Mr. Cul brish with the authorship of the follow fellow follew ing: " A pretty well authenticated rumor is going the rounds in railroad aud bullion society in San Francisce at the present time, te the effect that young Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant has received from Miss Jennie Floed the largest kind of a Mitten, with a big, big M, all en account of his iack of loyalty te that young lady. The story gees that Buck came here a few weeks age ostensibly te visit his fiancee, but as she was oil' in the Sierras when Buck arrived, this very premising scion of the house of Grant laid himself out for a geed time,te accomplish which he brought into requisition all the advantages which his supposed engagement would naturally give him. These who whisper that Geerge R. Wells, Floed's private secretary, was the Mcphistephclcs ofthe occasion, doubt less de him a great injustice. Ner de I believe that the plot had its inception in the brain of J. C. Floed, Jennie's as tute father, who, finding that General Grant had net received the nomination for ,a third term in the presidential office, con cluded that the ' Grants were net such great shakes after all,' and se concluded te get rid of Buck. I repeat, I de net at tach any importance te these rumors. That Geerge R. Wells led Buck astray at the instance of the elder Floed, I cannot believe. It may be that the plot had its inception in another quarter. Floed has a very wicked partner James G. Fair who is known by various ether appellations. Fer instance, some people call hint 'Truth ful James.' Others mere worldly minded call him 'Slippery Jim.' I can't bclieve it possible that his services were called into requisition, and that he put up this unholy job en young Ulysses. Whoever did it ought te receive the execration of all true patriots. In the mean time Buck will fin ish the writing of a charming society novel entitled. ' Hepe Deferred ; or, the Busted Alliance.' " If reports printed in Eastern newspapers are true, Miss Floed is te be congratulated en the rupture of the engagement. If young Grant appeared in public with a girl whose social standing rendered it im proper, she had no ether alternative. Miss Floed's dowry is estimated at $2,500,000. LATEST NEWS BY MAC. The town of Seymour, Outagamie county, Wis., was nearly destroyed by fire Wednesday. The less is estimated at $10, 000, partly insured. Baseball yesterday : At Trey Worces ter, 0 ; Trey, 2. At Providence Bosten, 10 ; Providence, 7. At Buffalo Cleveland, 0; Buffalo, 1. At Cincinnati Chicago, 17 ; Cincinnati, 9. Gee. Ambrose, county commissioner of Frederick county, Md., committed suicide en Saturday last by sheeting himself through the heart. lie was a successful farmer and leaves a wife and eight chil dren. A small beat containing hat and account book, with the name "Henry B. Smythc, Ne. 8 Pine street," in the latter, picked up in the bay at New Yerk yesterday by a schooner, gives a clew te the mysterious disappearance of a young broker by that name, and the police believe he has com mitted suicide by drowning. A tramp was found dead in a freight car at Wilmington, Del., en Monday even ing, having been killed by a blew en the left temple. Twe ether .tramps, named Geerge Russell and William Smith, who profess te have found the man in the con dition described, have been detained. Rus sell, who is a negre lad, stated that he had worked until a few days age for a Dr. Wharten, of Philadelphia. INDIAN MARKS.UANSIII1. Sheeting NicKcls and Glass llall While Blindfolded. San Francisce Call. Glass ball sheeting aud various ether ex hibitions of skillful manipulations of par lor rifles arc at present attracting consider able attention both in Europe aud the United States, and the telegraph reports almost daily some wondcreus achievement, se that the sport has received fresh im petus en our coast, and has been attended with some really geed sheeting, jiarticu larly in the case of Otte, a seu of Jeseph, the Nez Pcrccs chief. A representative of the Call availed himself or an invitation extended by Captain McDonald te wit ness an exhibition of fancy shoot sheet ing by his ward, and was amply rewarded, as the following will attest. It may be well te state that the scene of operations was a room sparse ly lighted and the general circumstances rather unfavorable for successful sheeting. The incidentals for the sheeting exhibition consisted of a triangular wooden frame at the apex of which a.bill pester represent ing the figure of a man had hecu pasted, a piece of glass about one inch square in serted for an eye, and at the ether corners of the triangle a set of brass knobs were inserted in the frame. On cither side, above and below, slanting iron plates were fixed te cress bars, and numbers of glass balls hung at various distances from each ether. At the back of the apparatus a gong occupied a central position. The first experiment consisted of blindfolded sheeting. A nickel five-cent piece was glued te the figure, and the young sharpshooter, blindfolded, turned around in various directions, and was fi nally placed iu a direct line of the object, with a rifle minus a sight, and at a dis tance of te'.no twenty-live feet. The first shot scut the nickel flying around the room, aud en examination an indention was found en its very edge. The second test consisted of placing a small piece of tinted paper en the glass used as an oye for the figure, aud then placing a large piece of card -beard in front of and touch ing it se that it was completely hidden from view. Tnc shooter was again blind folded and the first shot shattered the class, the bullet having passed through the very centre of the tinted paper. There were various ether tests, such as breaking three swinging balls with one shot and breaking a ball immediately behind the attendant, the ba!!, owing te previous contact with the brass knobs or iron plates, taking a cir cuitous course. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE DK.UIA. "The 1 our .Season at the Opera Heuse Last evening C. L. Graves's "chosen coterie of favorite aiti.its" appeared before a small audience at Fulton opera house, in the "$3,000 prize comedy" of "The Four Seasons.' Popular favor of late has run strongly toward light variety entertain ment, aud theatrical managers have taken advantage of the fancy by erecting the framework upon which specialty actors are afforded the op portunity of displaying their serio-cemic and clever kicking accomplishments, which before had been almost exclusively confin ed te the variety stage. All the merit of " The Four Seasons" which is nothing mere nor less than an inferior re-working of the old idea popularized by such admi rable organizations as the "Troubadours" and "rekes Family," is condensed into the third act, iu which a number of variety peo ple arc introduced aud serve te brighten up things and relieve the tedium and inanity of the remainder of, the performance. There is no plot te speak of albeit a little love story is enacted in which Mr. J. II. Howe sustains tins role of the stalwart and homespun lever, Mr. DcGcz supplies the place of thcpeifidieus heart-smasher and harmless villain, while Misses Wakcman aud Rhodes figure in the interesting char acter of sweethearts. The piece moves sluggishly up te the third act, when the song aud dance people, comprising two pretty girls in short skirts and three men in the customary picturesque attire ofthe variety stage, are introduced te en liven things. Up te this point they had figured as M'rvants aud even in that ca pacity contribute whatever of zest there is in the performance thus far. In this act, or the "Summer" season, we find them masquerading as a baud of strolling comedians, the range of characters including, Irish, French, German, negre and Yankee eccentricities. Geerge B. Rad cliff was quite entertaining in his Ethiopian eccentricities, and Mr. North is a funny Dutch character actor. 3Ir. Wm. F. Can oil, who was hilled te supply the Hibernian element, and who has quite a reputation as an Irish comedian, was conspicuous by his absence, having sever ed his connection with the company re cently, but his place was acceptably filled by another. Miss Lulu Dclmay made a charming aud vivacious little French dam sel, singing aud dancing well, and Miss Gcergic Parker, the Yankee dairy maid, was also quite attractive, and is a graceful dancer. This Litter young lady is the heroine of the recent sensation in a Phila delphia theatre wheicin a rejected suitor revenged liini.-elf by throwing an egg at her while she was informing en the stage, and subsequently compromised the suit that was entered against him and seethed the young lady's injured feelings by paying her $300. JHAIXC. Kilr.KlK from Iriate Letter. We are permitted te make the follewi extracts from two private letters recei from Auburn, Maine, the home of Cn" gtcssman Fiye. (Auburn is a city 0''" cast side of the Androscoggin, epJ5 Lcwisten, en the west bank the tvcties having a population of about -ie,00. In the iirht letter, written en Sept, "-, afew days before the election, the wrir"" y8 : " We arc in the midst of the lyttet po litical campaign I have ever sceiiyins, what is uuusual, the Democrats are ss wild as the Republicans. I never savtftcni se stirred up, and I am hoping te f a geed result Monday. I cannot see V we shall Iieln ':Liniii" 7.1 at Ieasfc in UkVatV, Unless money takes them from us Jhe Repub lican election officers are jet putting our men's n i:ies en the pell-lfati They left oil" ever -iOt in Lewistei Our men find G2 Democrats net ' the lists in Auburn, and net one JUifbiean name off this our final canvass sb-wJ. I presume we shall get them en, buO'eu see it takes work, and the Republic undoubtedly supposed we would not'iake a final can vass (we never had cferc), and they would thus lieat us t of many votes. - s x- i;ijijciiadc a speech here this week, in which heaid howeuldcarry the state by 11,000." The second letter vas written en the 14lh, the day alter t election, when it was conceded en fi sides that Plaisted was elected. The yitcr says : " Hew de you K the news from the Diri'je state ? It i what I hoped for, Jmt did net expect. Jmcw that if we get our vote out we shuld whip them. They beat us here in ,uburn and Lewisten by Ieaviii" our vetrs' names off the poll lists in Lcwi.sn ever 200 names but it's all riglit nw ; it insures the election of Hancock, :d the next time we meet them i". e. net state election we shan't have a theiwnd or two office-holders te fi"hr. "I see tltt Jim Blaine telegraphed te Garfield tltt the wicked Democrats bought thestatc. Peer, virtuous Jim ! howyeur oer soul must be stirred up te think tint any one should ttse money in Maine th didn't go through your hands ! "I thiiK we shall elect the Fusion elec toral ticJct in this state. I have heard of seven prsens this morning, who voted for Davis, sav they will vete for Hancock, and I (eubt net there are hundreds, if net theuwnds who will de the same." Think It Unreasonable. Tae Harrisburg Independent says : "The Irrsisidcs baseball club el Lancaster nave vrittcna letter te the secretary of the Pacific club, in which they state they will play at no place but Columbia en Satur day next. The Pacifies have net yet de cided whether they will play there, as they deem it a very unreasonable request. While they, the Pacifies, are obliged te pay car fare for twenty-five miles, the Lan caster club has only about ten. They de sire a square thing all round, and that the Ironsides don't seem disposed te grant them.' ;t.ndles' Fair. A ladie' fair is being held in Ephrata te-day and will continue till Saturday evening. Tableaux, music, chancing, voting, &c, are among the attractions. The excursion train which runs te Phila dclphic te-morrow will, en its return, step at Ephrata about 9 o'clock p. m., and take aboard j-asscnges for Lancaster and inter mediate stations. Police Court. This morning the mayor sent ene drunk tojailferlodays. One ether drunk and a vagrant were discharged. fcl "T-wr: