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Terms 91.60 per Annnm.la Adraace.
. T. SHUGERT .„d R. H FOMSTER, Editor..
Thnraday Morning, January 23, 1879.
WoitTitY OK IMITATION! The
Democratic legislature of South Car
olina transacted till business nnd ad
journed finally within twenty-three
days. Respectfully commended to
the legislature of Pennsylvania.
IT is said the President will veto
tho bill, recently passed in both
Houses of Congress, providing for the
payment of Arrearages of Pensions.
The hill will be found iu nuothor
column.
THE cypher despatches which have
worried the Radicals so iutensly for
sometime, alleging guilt ou the part ol
Mr. Tilden and other Democrats, is
proposed to he investigated by the
Potter Committee. When the sub
ject was before the committee lost
week, the Democrats favored the in
vestigation and the Republicans op
posed it. Charging fraudulent prac
tices "upon Democrats is one thing,
nnd investigating ipiite different, and
certainly not so desirable to the stal
warts a< they would have us believe. "
SEXATOI: TIU'RMAS, in his reply to
Blaine, charged that the Republicans
committed serious outrages at the elec
tion last fall in intimidating negroes
and others who desired to vote the
I)emi>cratic ticket, and otherwise pre
vented a free election. The Teller
committee called upon him for speci
fications, which the Seuator is furnish
ing in instalments. His third instal
ment is given to the committee, and Is
perhaps more than was bargained for,
but the Senator intimates that he has
still more in reserve. The committee
evidently woke up the wroug passen
ger when they demanded information
of the Ohio Senator.
HOYT INAUGURATED.— The magnif
icent spectacular drama of "Inaugu
ration" came off according to pro
gramme Tuesday at Harrisburg. A
description of it would closely resemble
the magnificeut triumphs of Scipio, the
great Roman general, than anything
else. Flags, banners, music and the
applause of the multitude express it
all. General Hoytand Judge Warren
Woodward, of the Supreme Court, oc
cupied a carriage aud witnessed the
many thousand soldiers pass before
them. After a prayer by Rev. Thomas
Newton Boyle, of Pittsburg, and the
oath, put by the Judge, a long nod
egotistic address was read by Governor
Hoyt. The whole concluded with a
brilliant pyrotechnic display in the i
evening.
PEXXSYI.VANU, no doubt influenc
ed by n desire to send her most intel
ligent and brilliant man to the Senate
agnin on Tuesday elected Jas. Donabt
Cameron, son of old Simon, to the
Senate for the next six years. The
only thing appropriate aiiout this that
we can see is that be fully represents
and accords with the average intelli
gence of the party who sent him. The
vote stood thus : Cameron, 107 ; Civ
mcr, 7fi; Agncw, 14; Mcpherson, 2.
Mapes, of Venango, and Wolfe, of
Union, voted for McPherson. Dennis
O'lxr'han, greenbneker, of Lacka
wantin, voted for Cameron. After the
election n committee waited on Came
ron at his residence to inform him of,
his election.
IvTi&Mt excitement exist* in Mnr*
mou circles over the recent decision of '
the Supreme Oourt of the United
States on the subject of Polygamy,
and great effort* are being made by
the delegate from Utah and other* to
avert the disaster which that deci*ion
must bring to the Polygamic*. Two
Hcrmon women reccutly interviewed,
Mr-. Hayes on the *ubject, represent
ing that if the anti-Polyganty law
were enforced it would make, entrant*
of 50,000 women in Utah who now
have happy home* and are honored
wive*. Indeed, this people are to be
com miwe rated, but the law* of the
United States cannot be moulded to
confer privilege* and immunities to
one section of the country that must
be denied to another. If Polygamy
fa wrong in Pennsylvania or
cbiisett*, by divine and legal authori
ty, it i* wrong in Utah, however the
revelation* and creed of Brigham
Young may teach to the contrary.
I.ngmit and Pratt
If any additional evidence wan
wanting of the complete and general
demoralization that ha* seized upon
the Republican party in every portion
of the country, a brief glance at the
record and judgiucut of its representa
tives in two States of tho Union, as
evidenced by their choice of United
States Senator, would supply it. Time
was when this grent |>oliticnl organiza
tion commanded the brains and talent
of some of the noblest men and most
disinterested patriots in the land.
1 When Sumner, Femcndeu, Trunt
-1 bull and Doolittle spoke for it in the
1 higher branch of the nutioual legisla
ture, nnd Curtin, Unlracr and Julian
were iU exponents and leaders. Those
days are past, and latter-day Republi
canism summons a different class of
i men to wear its honors and write its
achievements upou the pages of
American History. When John A.
Logan retired from the Senate of the
United States it was devoutly hoped
that the people of this country had
seen the lust of him iu a public capa
city. Of all the thoroughly bud men
who came to the surface through the
accident ot war, he was the worst, i
Bold, scheming and unscrupulous, he
was at once the ceutre and moving
spirit of that never-to-be-forgotten
band who made open war upon the
Treasury. A democrat of the most
violent tyj>e before the war, he went
naturally to the other extreme and la
came the frothing organ of the out
rage mill and the shrillest of bloody
shirt shriekers. A failure during the
war and so certified by General .Shcr
mau, who declined, upon the score of
hU utter incapacity, to give him the
command of the 14th corps to which
he was entitled. He entered public
life as a civilian only to emphasize the
verdict of utter worthlcssac** pro
nounced against hiin as a soldier. He
was the sworn friend and faithful
shield of the whiskey ring and its out
spoken advocate in season and out.
And yet Republican Illinois, a great
and prosperous commonwealth, ignores
the claims of dozens of her justly
honored citizens to bestow on John A.
Igan the crown once worn by Steph
en A. Douglass. May the saints de
feud ! And Connecticut, as if desir
ous of even outstripping her western
sister in cussedueas, pure ami simple,
remands one of her most distinguished
sons to the rear and envelopes a man
named I'rntt in the Senatorial toga.
James R. Hawley, the brave and
trusty soldier, the honest and incor
ruptible Congressmen, the mntchleM*
President of the Centennial Commis
sion, honored at home and respected
abroad, cannot be Connecticut's Sena
tor because he is poor and has none of
the supple appliances at his command
with which to corrupt legislators; and
the wealthy nobody, and the vain
glorious, egotistic Jewell combine to
crown money king. So it goes, and
Pennsylvania and New York will re
spond right nobly In-fore the ides of
February, and Cameron ami Conk
ling, the twin representatives of po
litical debauchery, and the power of
the machine, will greet their proto
types from the East and West, and
this is the way K-publieanism re
spond* to the demand for reform and
nn elevated public service.
Tin: White Hat and Black Hat wnr
is ngnin in full title in Philadelphia.
It is to be hoped thnt the old adage
that "when rogue* fall out, honest
men will get their own," tnay lie vcri- j
fied to the oppressed citizens of Phila
delphia, who have so long suffered
from the ring rule of these factious.
THE Teller committee by whicb 1
Blaine hoped to manufacture his
bloody-shirt capital for the President- j
ial campaign has practically collapsed
in New Orleans. They have adjourn
ed, placing the further search for out->
rage thunder in the hands of two at
torneys, one representing each party.
BESATOK LAW HENCE has intro
duced a resolution in the State Senate
providing for an amendment to the
Constitution, abolishing the Board of
Pardons.
The gorernor, auditor general and
state treasurer yesterday appointed
(ten. W. It. Hartshorn, of .iuniata coun
ty, superintendent of public grounds to
succeed W. 11. Patterson.
Senator .lones, husband of the lady
now familiar to the reader* of the coun
try aa the possessor of "Mrs. donee'
diamonds," made bis appearance at the
session of the Senate on Monday,
A large number of counterfeit four
dollar Botnioion of Canada notes are
reported to be in circulation.
Arrearage* of I*en*lon.
The bill providing for tho payment of
arroaraget of |>enion* ha* |MM*ed both
hou*ea of Congresa and 1* now in the
hand* of the Creiiilent for approval.
It I* officially estimated tiiat it will re
quire $20,000,000 to carry out the pro
viaiona ol the bill. It i* a* follow* ;
AN ACT to provide, that all pensions on ac
count of death or wounds received or disease
contracted in the service of the United
States during the late war of the rebellion,
which have been granted, or which thail
hereafter be granted, that/ commence from
the dale of death or discharge from the
eerrice of the I 'nited Sluice, far the pay
ment of arrrare of pension ur.d other pur
poses.
lie it enacted bo the Senate and House of
[ Tie pre tentative* of the United States of Amen
ca in Congress assembled. That all pension*
I which have been granted under the
I general law* regulating pension* or ruay
; Hereafter bo granted, in consequence of
death from a cause which originated in
tho United Stale* service during tho
j continuance of the late war of the rebel
lion, or in oonscqttr net. of wounds, in
. juries or di#c.i*e received or contracted
, in said service during the *aid war of
| the rebellion, shall commence from the
j date of the death or discharge from said
service of the person on whose account
the claim ha* been or shall hereafter be
granted, or from tho termination of the
; right of tho party having prior title to
I such pension ; provided the rate of pen
siosi for the intervening time for whirli
arreir* of pension are hereby granted
, shall be the same per month for which
. the pension was originally granted.
Section 2. That the Commissioner of
Pension* is hereby author.;.<*d and di
rected to adopt nurh rule# and regula
tions for the payment of the arrears of
pensions hereby granted as will la- nec
essary to CAU* to be paid to inch pen
' sinner*, or if the j>entoner* shall hare
died to tho person or persons entitled
to tho same, all such arreur. of pension*
as the jxMi.ioner may be or would liavc
been entitled to under thia art.
Section 3d. Thai section -1,717 of the
Revised Statutes, which provides that
"No claim for pension, not prosecuted
to a successful issue within five years
from the date of filing the same, shall
he admitel without record evidence
from tlie War or Navy Ivpartrnent of'
the injury of the disease which resulted
in the disability or death of the person
on whose account the ciailn is marie ;
provided, that in any ca*e in which the
limitation prescribed by this section
Oar* the further prosecution of the
claim, the claimant may present,
through the pension office, to the Ad
jutant fieneral of the army or the Sur
geon General of the navy, evidence that
the disease or injury which resulted in
the disability or death of the pernon on
whose account the claim i* made origi- '
nated in the *erviee and in the line of
du.y. And if such evidence i* deemed
satisfactory by the officer to whom it
may be submitted, be aliall cause a rec
ord of the fact ao proved to he made,
and a copy of the same to l>e transmit
ted to the Commissioner of Pension*;
and the bar to the prosecution of the
claim shall thereby lis removed,'' be
and the same is hereby repealed.
Section 4. No claim agent or other
shall be entitled to receive any compen
sation for service* on making applica
tion for arrears of {tension.
Section j. That ali act* or portion* of
lets, so far a* they may conflict with the
provi.ions of thi* act, he and the tame
•re hereby repealed.
(•en. James Shields.
The election of General Shields to the
United States Senate by the legislature
of Missouri, add* another of the many
remarkable chapter* in the history of
(he most notable Senator of the coun
try. iVirn in Tyrone. Ireland, in 1810.
he emigrated to America in 182ft,settled
in Illinois in 1832} entered it* legisla
ture in iH.id; became Auditor ol the
State in 1839; ch*en Supreme .ludge in
1*43; api-ointed Commissioner of the
I.and Office by President I'olk in 184.1;
went to the Mexican war a* a Brigadier
General in 184 ft; became Governor of
Oregon Territoiy in 18H; elected to the
United States Senate by the Illinois
Legislature in 1840. over Sidney Breeae,
the then hemocratic Senator, rejected
by the Senate a* ineligible Itecsuse of
some delect in his naturalization ; re
elected by the same Legislature and ad
milted to tlie Senate, where he served
six years ; became a resident of Minne
sota Territory on hi* retirement from
the Senate; elected one of the first
United State# Senator* Lv the Legi.la
ture of Minnesota in 18.VJ and served
tlie short term of two years ; became a
Brigadier fieneral in tlie Union army at ,
the outbreak of the rebellion and was
the only officer who defeated Stonewall
.lacKsou ; retired front military service
because of disabling wouuda ; since then
been a resident of Missouri; has been
in sunh severely straitened circum
stances as to reuuire him to pledga hi*
swerd, presented to him for distinguish
ed services in war. for his necessities,
and now tie has again oeen chosen to
the United Stales ."senate by the Legis
lature of Missouri to serve the unex
pired term ending on the 4lh of March
next. Ho is the only man who ha* rep
resented two Slate* in the ITnih-d States
Senate since the formation of the gov
ernment, and he will soon enter the
Senate to represent the third Slate that
has chosen liim as its highest legislator,
ills history presents the grandest illus
tration of the attainment* possible un
der our free institutions, and it would .
be well for the Republic if all who gain,
its honors eould wear them so worthily
a* James Shields, the battle-scarred
soldier of two wars and the Senator
from three States of the Union. —Tmss,
George Stillman Billiard, a noted
author and politician, died at Boaton,
yesterday, aged seventy year*.
The Kev. Father Joseph M. Kiaeoti,
well known to Boston and Cincinnati
Catholic*, died at Central, Colorado, on
Friday, aged sixty-two year*.
An attempt to thaw out some dyna
mite cartridge* at the (Tan-Powder
Water Works, near Baltimore, yester
day, resulted in the kiifiag of John
Molsan and Michael Betke, demolition
of the boiler house and carrying off the
boiler some fifty feet.
A Chief 4{nallflrntlon.
[Prom tbe Wln|ilii|ff<rti I'wdt.]
"The ability to keep* the South in
check." says the New York Tribune, "it
one of the chief qualification* that will
be demanded or l're*idential candidate,
next year. ' 'i ho ability to support the
Constitution and enforce law* made in
pursuance thereof should lie required of
any candidate for the Presidency. Tbe
Constitution and Iav were not nude
for section*, hut for all the people of all
the state* and territories. It is a gratu
itous insult, calculated to evoke hitter
I feeling, to speak of any section #* re
quiring to bo especially "kept in check."
I'lie equality ol the state* i* gu-iranteed
by th,, Constitution. South Carolina,
Louisiana and Mississippi h*ve precisely
tho stme rights, and demand precisely
, the same duties from the President, ••
Md*Aachu clts, Vermont and New York,
j if there i any one pieco of political
i wickedness and folly or which the
American people *re heartily sick, and
which they nre determined shall he
retired, it is the spirit of sectional hate
j and ui a I ice that crop* out in such
expressions as we have quoted from tin*
! Tribune.
I Tho South demand* that each of the
f state* shall have tlie *ame right* as
. every other state, mid there i no party
| that can elect a President on a platfoim
that denies or abridge# thi# demand. 1
. 1 There i* no interest of the otintrr that
. i* nut damaged by the rnniutennnre of
i ; sectional animosity. There is no jioi
hie good and only unmixed evil, that
can result from thi* perpetual stirring
up of strife, thi* continual hurling of
coarse insult upon the people of n
portion of the Union.
The Peniocratic party could not ask
for a rn're favorable issue on which to
prosecute the next campaign than that
of the "bloody shirt." A* the pnrtv of
peace and tranquility, of fraternal feel
ing between all section*, the Itemoerscy
would antagonize the t arty of hatred
and strife with an abnofirtr certainty ol
success.
But it is due to the fimronn welfare,
1 to the business and social interests ol
the people, to our National w|f respect, i
and to a decent regard for the opinion*
of mankind, that the campaign of 18m>
shall lie made on oilier i*ue ihsti such
a# will array the North and South in
bitter hostility agninst eseh other.
•
Itrnoio and the ( nrtin ( cutest.
The radical gentlemen managing Mr.
Votiim's part of the contested election
c**e. ir, tin* county, have apparently
furnished Mr. Y. with a vast amount of
startling inhumation concerning Reno-
VO, itfaxi which he proceed* fortiwuh to
allege very grave misconduct on tlie
part of the election officers ef that
{dace during then-cent election*. In
ii* niMesr to Mr. '"urtin's notice f con
tost, Novum allege* gross fraud* ui Re
novo; the reception of the ot<* of
many -Annaloralized |>er*oiis ; tlvsA the
election officer* were not legally elected,
chosen or appointed ; that they were
not legally sworn, Ac.; that they re
fusel V sewi the boxes and ilaftfsil
I hem with n magistrate ; that ttsey ab
sented Iheutoclve* from the |>oj l anil
clo-ed the Muse when tbey should have
been open : that tbey allowed *>*u
thorized person* to be present in tbe
room white the election *u being held.
Ac., Ac., Ac., ami Anally that tbey
drank lis'imr* in the room, and lenaw
grnsssly intoxicated and wholly unit to
hold the election. All this, of co-iese,
• ill prove iw-asto the parsons compos
ing the election hoard, and to tbe citi- i
sens of rSssvo generally.
Amidst all Ibis hue and cry from
thrae God-anil-Bad**llly chap* about
' gross drunken rvaw. Ac., on the part of
the election oflk-VM of Itenovo, it is well ,
to remember that tbe election returns !
show Kenovo'* majority lor Bill, '4Jj|
for Curt in, 27 ; for Barker, thereput.lt- J
can candidate f.,r Sheriff 115.
Surely, f'any •• the candidate* "veve
damaged by tut* alleged bed conduct. !
|it was neither Yoeuni nor Barker, for j
they both ran batter than their paliti- !
cai merits deserved, t fusion Item-cat*
IVlint ilabama Think- About It,
Moznaiair, Ala., January 10.- The
Senate yewteiday adopted the follow
ing:
WIIKIMA, 1 nA-irference by olTlcre* of
tbe United Htetm in popular elei-lton* to
justly regarded by the p-q.tc of this-State
us an evil of grew! magnitude ; and,
Wlirsxo, The luaaifwl purpose c£aa*)l
interference, tn part at l>-at, t# to ntu
ence, and rentn l the action of th* ikats
in seloetong eh-i'or- fcw the I'roitint and
\'iie-I'r uideiiA of the Unite-l twin
therefore,
Heat <•>, Th*B the Committee or feder
al Itelndnn# be instructed to tnqu've into
the expedient--* ot providing by 'aw for
the oeiretton of ole< lw* for Prssiibni and
Vice-Vreaident hy General Assem'dy walil
the aits of trttngrese authorising inWrfer
ence by Fedevat authority are repmUd.
WAM iXiitMt, January 20.—lathe Sen
ate to-day Mr. (hckrell inttwiuesd a
hill U> provl a aniform rutwaq, to
ret foe the note* of national bank* and
to prohibit their incorporation and
their issue of note*; to utRAw silver
and silver coin and to provide for the
re issue of coin and bullion eartilcate* ;
to provide lor tedentfition oc payment
of bond* of lit* United SISM, and the
! issue of bonde bearing In tear rates of
ileret, and to provide fos the expan
sion and contraction of paper rtirrenny
to meet tbe tmsines* internets and wanU
or the country. Laid n*i. the table at
; the regmwt of Mr. GoekraU, who desires
| to submit BUM remarks A* favor of the
BUM*.
Mr. Morgan submitted the ouKaUtute
agri-wl upon in the iHwntuimUo caucus
Tor Mr. Edmund*' resolution concern
ing suffrage and the Mint Conatitutiofr
al iwcmimi'n U.
The uhtilute, while reengaging the
binding force of the amendment* nam
ed, regard* Senate* Kdmunda' re*olu
lion aa proposing legislative action in
conflict with the decision# of the Su
preme Court, particularly in the •'Cruik
ahwtk" one, holding the Constitution
dom not confer the right to rote on
asp one, bnt simply onfera the piltl
legc of freedom from any diacriminn
tion on account of race, color or nrevi
on* condition, and that the regulation
of suffrage belong* exclusively to the
severs! State*.
Chasing the Cheyenne*.
TUB ei'RSl'IT TO UK BBSI'MBI#—THE DEAD
**D DVIXO AT CASK.
HOMT Roainaoa, January 11.—There
b * un " temporary calm in military
movement* the past ten or twelve hour*,
the fleeing Inutile* intrenched thern
•elve* on a mound on the While clay,
foiled the troop*, and at night, their
lieigg no a<cq uoto h.rco to either corn
pel them to autuiiMwion or keep them
front running away, they escaped.
hen the troop* next came up with
the desperate hand the latter h id tak
en possession of natwrai mound* or
protection on the north fork of Indian
. crick, llcro the troop* abandoned the
pursuit, returning to Fort Kohinon to
day. General Crook ent |o*itiv or
j tiers that the pur*uit of the Cheyenne*
I he continued, and Compnny E, I 1 plain
, I.awAon commanding, Jeft lor 11w front.
Tomorrow Company Jl. Captain We.
m-U commanding, will go forward, join
tlie force*, and then, under command
; of the Insinuated oflicer, the pursuit
will he resumed. The troop* will he
| supplied with six day*' ration*. There
I are fifty.two buck*, two squw* and
[children in the fort prison, of these
thcro ure fourteen wounded. One old
| squaw j. dying to night from the efleet*
■of six gunshot wounds. The captives
| state that while they had no hand in
pUiinitig the escape they arc yet ojs
posed to returning to the hated south
ern lenervation. Here they claim they
were told when surrendering they could
remain, and here their parents are bur
ied ond there children Were horn. Thus
tar no order* have been received for
their removal, Id. Cook and Ifick
Ifecr were most prominent, doing their
share of the killing of buck*. Jtut one
scalp i. reported, ursd the credit of that
given to the citizen*. five soldiers have
been killed or have died from their
ound* and eight were wounded.
Thirty-two Indian*, *f whom twenty
two were bucks and the remainder wo
men and c.uldren. have been killed,
and twenty six were b tried in one com
mon grave. It is bela-ved that about
lifly Indian., including fhill Knife,
have escaped. Wild Slog, ffld Crow
and one other savage .-.as in irons in the
• amp one mile from Robinson.
The .Sioux at the I'inw Ridge agency
have, lu yet, made no demonstration
other than in the indulgence in an ex
htbition of grief over their slain rela
live*. It is not hrlirvisf among army
t-Bcer* here that an oJtbreak will be
laa-ie, but if no better' management
prevails in restraining tlx# fSotst from
SB' indulgence in a war-<Vtnce than was
ex.b>bt-'l In the capture- of thrCher
,-i m me capiurw-oi inet-ney
-MM there ran U no **f~-predtoto a*
to the result. The Nioux any tbey can
feci the Uheyenoe* if th —govemaaetii
can- not. They would wwimp them
•elves rather than see their relatives
starve. 11 will require evidence to pmve
that tbe bosiites were ner permitted
to e tamper. < V.tnpann-* B sjf- D, of the
Third Cavalry, left Fort I amtnte this
ntormtig, exuininJel by Csptsin John
son. They are arooti>|tanieo-by a pack
Inns. They will endeavor '• intercept
tbe -Thoyenoe*.
Yesterday noon < ai-tsi Umsa,
rYiniazaoiling • on*piny tL, of the Third
(atrmitf, sisrtod in pursuit of the flreeng
savage#, who are said to be -making a
detovr in the direction of Pine Ridge or
the 146* bud Indian (amp, -Wtb yen#
{•eels of reaching the wigwa naof their
*> mpathicinf re.l brethren. The sarv
ages have a good thirty hou a start f
the l.eop*. and should they unwed in
stealing eno*%h ktoei to mnai '.hem
selvre it is a<4 improbable that they
will make their eemje and girn*ds
the young wartoiv of the jxiwvvfal
Soux nations to dig up the liMSehet and
avengo thaw wrong*. Tbe prevalent
iu|HTMMI here is that we rwe on the
eve of a l imit Indian war. Tbe mad
carrier- just arrived from 1' toe Rhtge
Agency lUdGnuifi new locavSr>n,a4a*e
that since She new* of the hsysase
outbreak and its results have become
known- tn Bed (loud * peopfo Uterv is
much weeping and wailing ataeng them,
and tbvr say their hearts nrw Wt.
Captain W#soli sSarteii with his eimi
ntand at t wclock Uri morivng for In
dian Greek, where he will take up the
trail.
Nrnaw TU-rrtmsw'* letter IM lfosno
eradtc (lab.
Ceis aata G.. Janstary B. bout three
hundred |*.roas sat down to a banquet ,
given to-iMgbt by the Yonng Men'*
I'coverall* Clith. Ihiring the evening
a letter ftootw .Henator rii.srtnm was
read. He regrete hi* inability In be
present aad oflbe* a few rr-htotien* on >
the toast "JaekMsman ltemserney." the '
th rae on wbieh be wa sypoiatel to
ipvak. Me rvfor* to the tint* when
I rxikson was a aandidate for the Press- j
d<wcy, and any* that the Jeanne racy
were then eminetitly. if vet pre-ems
nently, fotingu-M by thsir devotion
t • the l,"hion of the States, Secondlv,
the party was equally dbl.ngwtobed by
its love of the Constitution. It sought
to preserve it in nil its vigpp and beaft
aence hy giving to it a .national ami
rational interpretation, "hardly, the [
Jaoksonian Democracy ware tbe deter .
ntinivl foe* of aaonopoly. ha this paint
Mr. Thurmaa say*;
"They craaid not be othoewiae. foe the
very foundation of the party wee the
doctrine oj equal right*. By whatever
name* they may have been called, there
have been, and pcrhape ever will be,
but two great parties ia Amerka— the
Ifomocralio party, asking nothing but
eiyml right*. and an. apposiw party, '
whose leader* have aver sought, and
ever will seek, special privilege* created
by law. Who can fotget the great bat- ;
tie fought by th# Ifoaioaracy. under the
lead nf Jackson, against the Bank of
the United Slates; aad who rnn fait la
MM that a desperate struggle against a
for more powerful tornHnotion or cash
tal and privelege then waa presented hv
that institution in now impending ?
Will the Demoenwy of today follow the
example set by hetc fathers, of inßsxi
ble opposition to speoial privilege, or
will tliey prove secreant to the prinai
pie*#, the bisteoy and the tradition of
their portv T This is a quretina that
must ere long he answered. Xy own
belief is that H will be answered aa it
ought to he# ami that the Democrat* of
to day will prove theinselve* to be what
their fa the is were—true men. They
will be earnest, but not rash ; drier
mined# hut nor unreasonable j destruct-
Ire of wrongs and abuse* atone, and
conservative of all tbal should sxist in
a free republic,"
Ma, liars* says: "It is the objcet of
the Government to always deal fairly
with the Indians." Undoubtedly that
is the object of a rast majority of fit"
voter* ami taxpayer*, who, under owr
theory, constitute the governing poweg.
Hut it ha* hsppend that tnosl of the
instruments sel<-ctd to carry out tbie
wise ami humane purpose have signally
failed. The Indians bare been system
atically plundered and subjected to
numberless indignities. When they
bare resisted tyrannr, they have been
rrmrrilesaly slaughtered, the innocent
being shot down with the guilty. In
deed, it has more than owe* happened
that, in order to jfive the red tnsu a les
son in our superior civilization, the old
men, women and children of one of
their cHasp* or villages tmoe been at
tacked ami put to death whUe all their
lighting risen were off on llitr war-path,
fo puni h the acts of one trHte, or sec
tion of a tribe, another tribe or section
has been attacked. The same line of
| policy wouid justify the barging of
-lone*, of Jtoston. for a crime commuted
by Smith, of fWltimore. Treaties have
I been broken m every cose wh te the
interests of the whites have demanded
'heir violation.- We could cite cduaib*
: of Mich violations of solemnly plighted
faith. There is no doubt that the wild
tribe* are cruel- in their revenge,
that their modee! warfare is full of hor
ror*. We sympathize with the IrotHier
; —tilers e*jK>#e.l m their ferocity, 'tut,
the example and influence-of the whites
have not been seek a* to restrain or-re
form them. Ibmis no more ►hum -fob
chapter in modem history than the
record of the treatment of the Indians
b.v the reprc-entotive* of the Govern
imwt of the United States. We do net
I 10-liere that tins wrong cannot lie
rig'.ited. If we did. we shall almost
favor the immediate extermination of
the Indian* from (retire* of humsnit
Heller iiotiifJiuie death than a fulurw
j like the |mt. —/Vtz/ery /W.
— ~
A t*VA*K.Ai.it array of figure-, fiti'r- ■
porting to show the nunitier of Unite-
States !>rpiity Marshal* used by Attor
ney ( en era 1 Tafl In carrying the elec
. tion of l*7fi for the Republican a, is
printed" in some of the import. It i*
j said thu*. by the Attorney General's
own report, it up [-ear* that twelve
tbousa wf Ave hundred and seventy
nine persons were employed in this
work. Their apport'.nncoewt would
►eem tcshare been or. the simple basis
of partisan necessities and without any
regard efcaterer to cotCs legality or pro
priety. in South Carolina there were
nearly ftftu* hundred oa da<y at seven
teen preeinets; in Ixxwsiano, seventeen
hundred for one hundred and twenty
precincts-; in Virginia, two horsdred and
fire for thirty five precinct* ; in Dels
ware, onehundred and tbirtyfcrefor ten
precincts-; in Maryland', twelve hun
drel and twenty two .drone hundred
and fifteen preeinets. and so on. the
doubtful -Hates hsrir g rwpawed the
moat loc *ng after. Tver* is no doubt
] ot the great prostitutioceof this branch
•of the peblio service to partisan ends
j during General Grant's -administration
! and even since. The ftfuee if Repre
| aentaiivew-1 quite right in wishing to
: have a bit of particuksna and despite
, tleneral f arMd si nex pi i table abjection
jit ought to-hare it. T |-artsann hire
ling* are thw* fastened upon the gov
j ernment. with the view of inflbencing
j the jx-opl# in the choicwof their ruler*,
it is itr.pbe justice rlsal Use people
should ki ow exactly who they are, ex
actly what ther have dm* and exactly
what the service costs the cevmtrjr.—
| Pkdaidrlpf.io
Koi months the N rr Yoe* Trtiwv
j and other- organ* of the "stalwarts"
; hare dared- Use domoowia in rangrcM to
investigate-the cipher dispatches. Mr.
Potter h* taken up the ihaHsngo, it i*
j believed at the instanceof Ms. Tilden,
and he rtt offer a resolution next Mon
day. Hot the zeal of'the republican*
for inrcsUustmn has suddea.gr cooled
off. In the Potter cowmiuee when the
resolutioate investigate was beeegbt up
the rcpt.kbrwn matchers declined to
rote, and it ia now anticipated that the
republicsna of the houae will pursue a
similar course and Uses prevent a quo
mm. 1 case a quor <ui oaa be secured -
on Mon lay n two-thlids rote will be re
quired for the passage of the resolution,
and this the republicans can prevent.
From one end of tha-lsnd tthe other
the republican organs bar* sought to -
blacken- the reputation o! Mr. Tilden
by connectiag him with there alleged
cipher diapelchse. .lie foul charge that
besought t procure by corruption the
greet office to wbichhe vase elected by
the people was imogined te fie a good
set off te the open and palpable frauds
through which Mr. Hayes r sac bed, the
presidency. Hut saw when the demo
crats ia congress impose to accept the
challenge that has-been noisily dinned
into tho ear of thepubfco for n oath*
the reausers of Mis T>Ud*n shrink, from
the iaaise.—Wrmjuy ftnig.
IWMMTIUTOX axpraeea constituted
the sntoec.t of sen si deration La both,
houses Thusrday. In the senate Mr.
Kr we trout intviduesd a joint.resolu
tion to proridc 'hst the expenses of thw
inauguration of the gerernnr elect shell
not exceed one thousand dollars. The
revelation ftinber provides that the
seeounls shall be settled by the auditor
general in the usual man nex and ha ia
.required to draw separate warrants en
die state treasurer Ira- each amount so
settled. In presenting the- resolution,
.Senator Ktmrn trout submitted an ex
hibit from the auditor general's office
showing thoexpenses of termer inaugu
ration*. tkireinor Hacker fc cost fc£2U
Governor Curtin's first inauguration
cost Nib llis second cost !.<** The
expanses of Governor Uearv'a fizal in
auguration ware #l.3Qou His second.
lI.HOtt Governor Havtrsnft's first in
auguration cost the state UNA, and
his second, ft '.','.?. Senator Krnfiiffi*
trout's resolution was ordered: to lie on
the table in the nheenon of standing
committees. The same disposition was
made of a similar resolution offered in
I the house by Mr. Sherwood of Nor
thumberland rouu-y. —.f forrtdar.j Pa.
tmt,
It i*generally concede! that Mr. Quay
i wiU be Secretary of the OaaunouwvulUi,