DEMOCRATS IN THE WAR. The Republicans have been bank ing on putting down tlint "infernal re bellion," until, as Gen. Bteadman said, "almost every man who belongs to the party believes he is a patriot and liero." This claim is to la* question ed, nod brought face to lace with the facts of history. Thereat the Gazette is troubled. It gives the individual Democrats credit, but says the party, "as such opposed the war," ami singu larly enough cites Met,'leilair's noiui illation in IMI>4 as evidence. McClel lan represented the Democratic senti ment in regard to the war, and wo would ask no better exponent, lie believed the war was for the over throw of the secession heresy, the pres ervation of the Union, and the main tenance of the rights of the States unimpaired. The overthrow of slave ry was an incident of the conflict, and very likely an inevitable result once the sword was drawn. Mr. Lincoln bit the nail on the head exactly when be said he would save the Union no matter whether slavery was destroyed or maintained. Nationality was what the people were fighting for. The Democrats opposed the civilian con duct of the war bv Republicans, especially their corruption, inefficiency and jobbery, which found its strongest illustration in the brood of shoddy patriots, and they carried the North with them on this issue in the elections of l*ti2. The liepuidicans in civil office, and the great army of contract ors, quartermasters, commissaries, ami paymasters, used the war as a means to an end; that end was ttenliwj. The fruits of these thefts, their shoddy aristocracy, vulgar display, and ah >ve all things tlieir monopoly of "loyalty," insult even at this day the honest com mon sense of the peoide in evorv sec tion of the North. \Ve know men in this State, high in rank in the Repub lican party, who make constant boa-t of their superior loyalty, wbo-c only service to the Union cause was cheat ing the Government of huudred- of thousands of dollars in contracts, se cured by the connivance of the robins in office. We are getting tired of the assumption of these fellows that they carried the Union cause on their shoulders, and that they and they alone now represent fidelity to our form id' Government. They took ad vantage of the necessities of the < ov crnment to rob it; they gathered for tunes by sending the soldiers on the field rotten clothing ami tainted food. Napoleon and Wellington hung such people. They are to-day high priests of the Republican party, and blatant as donkeys in their professions of loy alty. They sent Don Cameron to the I nited States Senate from Pennsylva nia beeaifse of the fortune he made in mules during the war; and they "nev er went hack" on old Simon for the reason of his corruption in giving out contracts induced Mr. Lincoln to kick him out of his cabinet and congress to lbrmnly censure him. These are sam ple Republican heroes. That Mr. Lincoln well understood the character of the greater portion of the men who voted for him, General Stead man showed in his speech to the Ohio Democratic convention, in this anecdote, which is good enough to re peat: I make another statement here to day—and there is a living witness in the State of Ohio who was present when Mr. Lincoln made the utterance. The first I ever saw him was after the battle of Chickarnaiiga, when I was ordered by telegraph to report in JKT son to him. [Applause.] I went uj> ami called upon him, and James M. Ashley, who is living, heard the con versation. Mr. Lincoln took mc by the hand, greeting me warmly, and told me he was glad to see me. .Still holding me by the arm he said to Mr. Ashley: Brother Ashley, wnat would have be come of us in this war had it not been for the fighting Democrats from the North and West. [Prolonged Ap plause.] With a shrug of the shoulders Mr. Ashley said: "Mr. Lincoln, I don't know." Mr. Lincoln replied: "I lielievc our rebel friends would have their flag floating at the Capital, sir." [Applause.] lie said: "The truth is, brother Ashley, that our party is made up, to some extent, of the religious ami sym pathetic, and thev don't make first class soldiers. [Laughter and ap plause.] "They don't make first-class sol diers," was Mr, Lincoln's shrewd ver dict as to his own party. It was true at least as regards the free soil and ab olition element. They wanted the Un ion dissolved and not maintained. Those long-haired gentry hud no fan cy for vilininous saltpetre. At their New England adversaries their favor ite text was there ran be no honorable war as there can he no dishonorable peace. Massachusetts made up its quoto of soldiers in the federal army by emptying its coffers ami sending agents into the border states to buy up negroes as substitutes. The fighting Stale of Kentucky placed its quoto of men in both the federal ami confed erate armies, and sold—yes, sold Mas sachusetts enough darkies to help the Yankees out of the draft. There was a million majority in the country against Mr. Lincoln. If the fighting element of the Republican party, throwing out the long haired gentry, had set about suppressing the rebellion on its own account, as Mr. Lincoln said to General Kteadman, fresh from the bloody field of Chick nuiaugn, "our rebel friend* would hove had their Jiag floating at the Capital." It was the Democrats of the North and West, in the iiriny as private soldiers, that saved the union cause. Without tliem the rebellion would linve been successful. Whole regiments went to the war without a Republican in the ranks. Democratic New York city sent more soldiers to the field than Re publican Massachusetts, ami while there were few Republicans in the New York regiments, the Democrats had more than their fair proportion in those of Massachusetts. Governor Curtin tells of a (lag he presented to a regiment from the Democratic "Tenth legion," of this State, in which there were not a single Republican in the fourteen hundred men in the ranks. They were all Democrats. The Republican politicians at Wash ington and in the States controled the bestowal of honors, ami his being a Democrat was a bar to au officer's pro motion. Armies were sacrificed rath er than success should crown the head of u Dcmocrntiu General. When it came to award contracts, and the quar termaster, commissary and paymaster places, with there contingent stealages, only Republicans were found fitting, ami it is these heroes who have been most industrious in cultivating the idea that "old ('hiekauiauga" annihi lated at Columbus, that the Rcpubli can jmrty is the only loyal party in the Union. Said .Steadman, ami it is a good point to keep before the jwople : Now 1 say here to-day, fellow Dem ocrat.-. —ami I defy contradiction when I make the statement —that at the close of the war with two or three hon orable exceptions, every soldier who had won distinction, who was in com mand of any department of the army, or of a corps, was furnished by the Democratic party. [Great applause.] R nienils-r that the men who failed in the war and brought disaster to the Union cause, and brought disgrace to our country, were not Democrat-. It is time, high time, tellow Demo crat.-, that the Democrats of this coun try assert their claims—their right to the full measure in the honor ami glo ry of the success of our armies in the late war of the rclicllion. [Applause.] The war put down by the men of iron nerves and fearless hearts—men who come from all the vocations of life. It was not Republican |s>iiti ciatis who did it and they have no right to attempt to throw this -tigma uistu the Democratic party which furnished its full measure of all the Soldiers that ls>re our arms t<> victor**. "Did Hickory**" Death Bed. FrutD fh Cincinnati (Vturner*tal. Mr-. Wilcox was present at Gener al Jackson's death, one bright ami lieautiful Sunday morning in June of 1-545, and she describes it a- a scene never to 1m- forgotten. He hade them all adieu in the tcndcrcst terms and enjoined them, old and young, white and black, to meet him in heaven. All were ill tears, and when he had breath ed his la-t the outburst of grief was ir repressible. The congregation at the little Presbyterian church on the plan tation. which the General Had built to gratify his deceased wife, the morning service over, earne flocking to the man sion as his eyes were closing and added their bowailment to the general sorrow. Shortly after this mournful event Mrs. W. encountered an old servant in the kitchen who was sobbing a- though her heart would break. "Die missus is gone," she brokenly said to the child, "and now ole niassas gouc; day's all gone, and dey was our liest fren's. And old masr.n, not satisfied teachin us how to live, has now teached us how to die." The jswir, unlettered crea ture did not know she was paraphras ing one of the most beautiful passage* in Tickcll's elegy upon the "Death of Addison He taught u ho* h* lif, arvt irh. Tim hifh Tb p*tr fur knovNgaj taught ue h to 4te. What is I'nt Into letter Itoxrs. From t* Bmtom lfnW. The carriers who collect the mail from street boxes sometimes find queer dejsisits therein. ISHMO- silver coins and loose |M>stiige stanqis are among the principal discoveries, while a car rier the other day brought in a hank hook containing $H. r in hills, which lie had taken from a lamp-post IM>X. The most remarkable instance of absent mindedness in this direction was the ease, not long since, of a young man who daily carries two leathern hags— one for mnil ami the other for monev, etc. He deliberately, in a fit of ab straction, walked up to the box in the Boston post-office, and emptied the contents of one hag, containing several Imnk books and bills and checks, amounting to thousnmls of dollars, into the mail Isix, and did not discov er his blunder until he went into the hank and handed the receiving teller a hunch of letters. That young man's face, it is said, grew so pale as to frighten every one who saw him rush ing through the streets, eyes distended and heart thumping in his wretched bosom. He was made a happier and a wiser tnnn on receiving, at the busi ness office,the hank books nnd money, in place of which he gladly tendered his bundle of mail matter. TUB llailroad Gazette says that the world apiM-ars to be provided with works sufficient to produce almut thrice as much irou in a year as llie world has ever consumed in a year. KWINH AM) KICK. A Washington correspondent of the i'hiladcphiu Record drawn the fol lowing excellent pen picture of (ten* t rain Kwing and Kico, the Democratic Htundnrd bearers in Ohio: "From un Ohio standpoint it muit l> admitted that the Democratic ticket i n strong one, however much one may ilitl'er witii itn political complexion and meaning. I'eraonally Kwing and Hice are toth excellent men. Politically they are both strong in Ohio. Togeth er they will undoubtedly poll the full strength of the-Ohio Democratic vote, for while there are many hard-money Democrata in Ohio, the financial creed ol Sherman ami hi* proxy Foster in, if possible, more objectionable to them than that of Firing and Hice, and per sonally both Kwing and Kico nre popu lar with Ohio Democracy, Itoth are in the prime of life; Kwing will not be fifty ur.til August, and Hice will not be forty-four until November. Itoth are natives of Ohio. Itoth were educated at the Fast, Kwing at lirown t'niversity, Providence, It. 1., where lie graduated in IK.M, and Kico at I'nioti College, •Schenectady, N. Y., where ho graduat ed in 1860, itoth served with conspic uous gallantry ill the I'nion army, and both earned their promotion Hice to the rank of iirigadiei General and Kw ing to the rank of Major General. Both enlisted at the beginning and served until the end o( the war, and Hice h-ft a leg on the battlefield to attest bis loyalty, Iti view of these records nnd the fact that the head of tin- He publican ticket never faced the South ern bullets, but devoted the years of the war to getting rich by the sale of groceries in the peaceful shades of Fo turia. it is hardly probable that the !!<•- publicans in Ohio will make tin* bloody shirt and the new rebellion prominent issues in the pending cnvas. Kwing is a lawyer, and has been t'hief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kan* is, to which Stale be went after he left < "i b-ge. Hice started out to be a lawyer, but in \pril, I if,l, he left bis law iM,k for the battlefield, and sinee tin- war lm been manager of tin j rivate bank ing bouse of ''. 11. Hice & < '<*., at 1 t'.tawa. ' Uiio, bis borne. Most of bis time, however, since the war, lias been spent in politics, and he has served two terms in Congress. Kwing was elected as a Democrat to the Forty fifth t'otign and is now serving bis second term as a member of the Forty-sixth. Physical ly, the two men are very dissimilar. Firing is tall, five feet elevrn nt tin least, and of the massive, imperturba ble order of men. Hice is short, of wiry build and nervous temperament. Imperturbability is Kwing'* tnoi strik ing characteristic. Ho is almost the eipial of Grant in this regard. Nothing excites bun. Nothing throws him off bis balance. Nothing disturb* bis equanimity. Hice, on the other hand, is of the enthusiastic, excitable order. Kwing lias brown hair, clear gray eyes, a pallid complexion and wears a close to-ard and mustache, well sprinkled with gray. Ills bead is large, especially 011 top and about the temples, and well balanced. His face is tlatisb. but bis nose is of the generous type, and his lips full and ti'tn. He i a hard student and a cogent debater. His voice has Wonderful |>ower, and be is accounted one of the strongest campaign •|ekcrs in the country. In Congress lie always commands the attention of the House both by reason of the matter and man tier of bis speeches. lie seldom M*eaks except on financial matters, and always speaks well. Personally be is one of tin* most agreeable and enjoyable of men. genial, whole souled and true as steel, there is no taint of super ciliousness or hauteur about him, nor yet is ho one of the hail fellow well met with everybody class. Ho is always dignified, always quiet, yet always ap proachable. In his faintly relations bo is exceedingly happy, in bis personal habits temperate and and abstemious. General Hice, as I have said, is a smaller, more wiry, more nervous, more enthusiastic man than Kwing. His hair is dark, his eyes ditto, and both hair and beard have a tangled, negli gent look, which conies of fits habit of running bis hands through them when excited. He walks with a cane, has a decided limp, and the general air of a locomotive under a full bead of steam. He is a good talker, though not so good as Kwing. and is |>ersonal!y an exceed ingly popular man with all who know him. He is not quite such a radical (ireenbacker as Kwing, but is an earnest silver man and essentially an advocate of the 'Mlhio idea." Together, tbev certainly make as strong a team as could be found to pull that idea to vic tory in October. ♦ Iteer Printing in the I nited Slates. From lli ric if. For some years past a decider! incli nation lias been apparent all over the country to give up the use of whiskey ami strong alcohols, tiscing as a sub stitute lieer ami hitters ami other com pounds. This is evidently founded on the iden that beer is not harmful ami contains a large amount of nutriment; nlso that bittern may have some medi einal finality which will neutralize the alcohol it conceals, etc. These theo ries arc without confirmation in the observations of physicians and chem ists where either hits lieen Used for any length of time. The constant use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of nil the organism, pro found nnd deceptive. Fntty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestion, nnd perversion of function al activities, local iutlammntions of both liver ami kidneys, are constant ly present. Intellectually, n stupor ntnounting almost to pnralvsis arrests the reason, precipitating nli the higher fat ultics into a mere animation; sensu al, selfish, sluggish, vnricd only with paroxysms of anger, thnt nre senseless nnd brutal, in his general np|K*aratico the beer drinker may lie the very pic ture of health, hut in reality he is the most incapable of resisting disease. A slight injury, severe cold, or shock to the body or mind, will commonly pro voke acute disease, coding fatally. Compared with inebriates, who use dif ferent forms of alcohol, he is more in curable, and more generally diseased. Ihe constant use of beer every day gives the system no time for recti|>era tion, hut steadily lowers the vital for- f ces; it is our observation that beer- 1 drinking in this country produce* the [ very lowest forms of inebriety closely i allied to criminal insanity. The most dangerous CIIIHS of tramps and ruffians in our large cities arc hoer drinkers, j It is asserted by competent authority ' that the evils of heredity insanity are j most positive in this class than from alcoholics. If' these facts nre well founded, the recourse to beer us a sub stitute for alcohol, merely increase* the danger and fatality following. In hitters we have a drink which : can never become general; hut its chief danger will he in strengthening the disordered cravings, which later j will develop a positive disease. I'uh- i lie sentiment and legislation should ! comprehend that ail forms of alcohol are more or h**- dangerous when used steadily; and all person* who use them | in this way should come under sanita ry and legislative control. A PKNNSVI.t IMA ItOMAM K. Ivvcrv day prove* the veritv of that trit<* old saying that "Truth is stranger than fiction." llcrc now we have from our own Slate and front Ti- ' oga county one of the wildest regions i of the State, a story romantic enough for the foundation of a novel, and one which we condense as follows; Kate Hanson, a girl of' odd luaseiiline ways and only 18 years old, disappeared from her Tioga hmuc twculv-two years ! ago. Sh<- Used to spud much of her j time in tin* woods, being fond of bun- j tin r and expert with both rifle and : rod. and otic day, taking the rille pre- j settled to her by In-r father, she disap peared in the woods never to return, i l.v-rything |*o-sihle was done to find trace of her, hut at last she was given I up as lost. It was thought by her j companion* that Kate hating formed j nn attachment for a worthless voting man, Johnson by name, and lu-r pa rent* having forbidden marriage with him, bad elojs-d witli hiin. <> I<•i j• I Wilson, of this city, sjM-nt the w inter ' f l*7ll ill <'libit, meeting while there Major .lane - Hopkins, of Ohio, who i served in Thomas division during tin* | war. Hopkins owned a fine planta tion in the interior and warmly invit- I •si him to I income his guest. The , home was a delightful one, presided over by Mr-. Hopkins, a handsome and dignified lady of about forty. 11• - bad two children, and all were living happy and contented. In the eonfi- j di-ncc liegottcn of acquaintanceship, it finally came out that Mr-. Hopkins was none other than Kate Han-nti, of Tioga county, and Wilson wu- intrust- j s*d bv licr with the salient point* of lu r history since her disapp-aranee, j and requested to inform lu-r relatives ; that she would, a- soon a* issssihle, pav 1 them a visit. The story she told is a j singular one. When her father ordered her to cease receiving Johnson's attentions j she concluded he wa* right, hut could | not get rid of Johnson's company hut i by leaving home. She passed that ' night in the Wf>nds, and the next day ! found a hunter's cabin —the owner* | ah-ent. Appropriating a suit of their | clothe*, she disguised herself, travelled to Dunkirk. and found a situation as cook on a Detroit and llutfalo lake 1 Iwiat. One day she read nn advertise- j mcnt giving a minute description of ! her and offering a reward for infor- 1 (nation. This alarmed ht-r, and she ; wandered to Cincinnati nnd found employment on an Ohio river steam- j er, in which position she remained until the outbreak of the civil war, when she joined nn < >hio regiment, nnd was in all of the engagement* of I Oon. Thomas' division. In 1863 she was promoted to sergeant in her com- ; pany. In IHfif her captain met her one day as she was returning from stationing n guard. He said to her that he had long suspected that she was a woman, nnd demanded to know if such was the rase. The charge was so sttddeu and unexpected thnt she lost her self-possession and convicted herself by her reply. She lagged the captain not to reveal her secret, hut he took her IK* fore < Jen. Thomas and ntnde the strange fact known to him. Knte wa nt once sent Iwtck to the rear, and ordered to resume her proper nttire. She became a nurse in the hospital, nnd soon hail in her rare the captain, he having been wounded in a skirmish. Between the captain nnd the nurse, whom he had detected in the ranks of his company, n strong affection formed. At the close of the I war they were mnrried, the captain, meantime, having lieen promoted to the rank of major. Major Hopkins' family was one of the best in Ohio, and it refused to recognize his wife. She had $!K)0, which she had saved from her earnings on the steamer. This wn-* in a Cincinnati lutnk. She drew it out, and, with her husband, went to Cuba. There thev prospered and were found by Colonel \ViWon in 1876. Word has lieen received from Mrs. Hopkins that she and her hus band and children will sail for New York in August, and visit the home she *o mysteriously left nearly a quar ter of a century ago. AN ill-natured man being seen to blush, it was asked what the cause was. "Oh!" said a witty lady, "the cross old creature happened to smile and feels ashamed of it." Kduratlon In i f>vl- of her citizen i into a curse. ' The I'epe'n Oenniiriatiiry letter. Ixinumn, Jure 14.—The t< xt of the Cope's letter ujkiii the projtowd mar riage law has Is-en received here and excites much comment. It i- addre--- Im| to the archhinhops ami bishops of J Turin, Vcrcclli, and Genoa. A hill making civil marriage obligatory Is - fore the re-ligious rite • -nit Is- rl'orm ml, wan rcoentlv pa—<-d hy the Italian Chamber c.f lleputics, and is now Im-riding Is fore the Senate, and the l'o|s- ha- is-uod thin letter in the hojs of preventing its pn-age. He starts with the as-ertion that the state has no I right whatever to interfere in matters | eonnecfed with marriage. "To aftirni," ; nays he, "that matrimony in a creation ; of the Mate and nothing more than a j civil contract, in to deny the fumia ' rm utal principle- of Christianity, and j even the elementary ideas of national I law. Marriage in not an invention of j man, lint of God, who commanded by I thin union the propagation of the hu man rare and the constitution of the family, wherefore marriage, in what ; concerns the sulistance and the saueti tv of the tie, is essentially sacred ami religious, the regulation of which lie longs to the Church hv the mandate ,of its divine founder. UhcChureh has | no wish to ignore the (sditical author ! itv of the state ; it acts only to protect the sanctity of the tie and the religious forms proper to it. The new law has i lieen dictated by the desire to cause new tribulation to the Church, and not by a wish to maintain order." He in structs the bishops to warn the faithful that except in form established hy God and Church, there can lie no honesty or sanctity in the marriage tie, hut also to remind them that the church, after having placed in safety the integrity of the principle and dig nity of the sacrament, permits the faithful to take the benefit or whatever - social advantages civil legislation af- j I fords. The letter is hotly denounced bv some of the pa|criodira)s, phamphlets, news papers, etc., not exceeding two pounds, will be carried for 15 cents, over two or more than three 20 cents,over three and not more than four pounds in weight will be charged 8 rents per pound, in addition to the rate for tour pound packages. Moner packages under S2O will he carried a distance not over 500 miles, foV 15 cents ; from S2O to SSO, the same distance, 20 cents. The special rates and conditions for regular shippers are exceedingly lib eral. Under the new tariff shipper* of money and small packages will take , advantage of the express company as being the safest and most expeditious, • I wing iu some rosjwcU preferable to , postal money orders and registered i letters, as the Express Company is responsible for loss or non-delivery j while the poet-office department is not.