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V J. TAN SLYKE, TcnusHxn. Hi, ILLINOIS. GOSSIP OF THE DAY. f # » JIOBEBT Ootunoi's new lecture wili îlfc be given to the public before next winter. He has no 'ear of keeping the article as fresh as ever through the sum* because il is nothing but " Salt." How OUR public men fade away F Of the eight who ran for President and "Vice-President in 1860 but two--Hanni­ bal Hamlin and Herschel Y. Johnson-- are living. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Breckinridge, Everett and Lane have passed away. " What shadows we are.} THERE have been under our govern-, tnent 18 Presidents, 27 Vice-Presidents, 33 Secretaries of State, 87 Secretaries of the Treasury, 42 Secretaries of War. 35 Secretaries of the Navy. 12 Secretaries of the Interior, 33 Postmasters General, 45 Attorneys General, and 53 Speakers off the House of Representatives. A FEW days since the schooner Rosa- belle, lumber-laden became water-logged and went on the beach at Grand Ha ?en, Mich., during a terrible storm. Capt Frazier, with five brave citizens of Grand Haven, launched a life-boat, and in the presence of a large crowd who witnessed the exciting scene, succeeded in rescuing all with the exception of the cook, who M been previously washed overboard. GEOEGE ALFRED TOWWSEND is prober bJy tlie most prolific writer of all the grand army of Bohemians. It is stated that thirty columns a week has been his average amount of matter for fourteen years, and often he has been known to grind out that quantity in a single day. He rises at daylight and his work is mainly done at 11 o'clock. Townsend is still a young man, "having been born in 1841. A PQSTOFFICB clerk in Nebraska, in a fit of recklessness, purloined two five dol­ lar bills from a latter. - Afterward re­ penting, and being convinced of the truth Of the adage, " Honesty is the best policy," he slipped a $10 bill into the same letter and forwarded itto its des­ tination. The reception of an X, instead of two J's, lea d tu liiS detection niid ui - rest, and he now languishes in jail, while struggling vainly with the problem why two 5's are not 10, and fully convinced that there most be something wrong with that old adage. A WISCONSIN farmer had a hen ad­ dicted to picking and eating'her own eggs. The cunning Granger cured this abnormal appetite by placing an egg­ shell filled with cayenne pepper in the nest--the hen innocently plunging her beak into it, with a result so effectual and permanent that she is the only hen now known that will lay an egg without cackling over it. She performs her daily •duty in this respect patiently and noise­ lessly, and instantly after accomplishing her task, retires to the opposite side of the form-yard with astonishing celerity. The elated Granger forwarded an appli­ cation to Washington to have the new "Pepper" trick secured by patent, which proceeding will soon doubtless convince bim that, like his disconsolate hen, he had better have leit the "1 bogus" egg as it was. -- . / THE people of Rocht have kindly interestedj/tliemselves in be­ half of the orphan children of Donald­ son, the lost aerfinaut of Barnum's show. A benefit is to be given them, and it guardian appointed that the proceeds may be judiciously applied. Though Donaldson owed nothing for their main­ tenance at the time of his supposed jVtoth, a few hundred dollars procured in this manner, let it be managed ever so economically, will serve his orphans but a brief period, and we would suggest that Barnum's Hippodrome, which is in­ directly responsible for the sad fate of the luckless aeronaut, should supplement the charitable measures of the less inter­ ested citizens of Rochester, by devoting at least one day's receipts of the great show for the benefit of the helpless children of their late friend and com­ panion. How is it circusmen, will y0u 44 tumble" to this suggestion ? " Glory be to God, mum, an* la thing full o' people I" ' THE announcement that the trial of John D. Lee for complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre has resulted in a hung jury will excite little surprise when the composition of the jury is taken into consideration. The jury, ao- oord ng to a San Francisco paper, was com} 0081 as follows: Joseph Wade, Gentile, native, two yeera a resident of the Territory; J. C. Haister, Gen­ tile. native, two years a resident; David Rogers, Mormon, fourteen yem a resident; Isaac Duf- feo, MoruiOu, naturalized, ten years a resident; John P. Chetester, Mormon, native, resident twelve yean; James C. Robiaoo, Mormon, na­ tive resident, eighteen yean; D. J. Arthur, Mormon, native, resident twenty years, and son-in-law to Haight, who gave the order to fire on the emigrants, bat has no opinion; Jo­ seph Knight, Mormon, native, resident twenty years; Paul Price, Mormon, native, resident six years; George F. Jar vis, Mormon, natural­ ized. resident fifteen years; Robert Heyborna, Mormon, naturalized, (a Californian), resident seventeen yeara, and step-son of Uric, who was engaged in the massacre--has been on the ground, but knows nothing of it; John Beaver, Gentile, native, ten years resident of California; Nine Mormons and three Gentiles, ted two of these Mormons relatives of men who participated in the butchery! Is it any wonder that they stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction I What chanoe was there for justice with such a jury? fwyifip1' BEPUBLICANISX, ILLINOIS NEWS. SoHurmsB CoiiFAX will lecture at Mi- nonk, Sept. 28. A NEW street railroad between Rock Island and Moline is talked of. PATTON HARBISON, of Sangamon coun­ ty, lias lost a number of cattle by Texas fever. MORGAN GOUNTT claims to have lost a quarter of a million of dollars by the late flood. THE hog cholera is prevailing to a considerable extent in Morgan and ad­ joining comities. HON. WXIIIJAM SHEPHERD, one of Jer- seyvule's oldest, most prominent and beloved oitizens, is dead. GEOBGB CORNELL, an old citizen of Macoupin county, was killed at Carlin- ville last week by being thrown from his wagon. THE Commissioners appointed to se­ lect a location for the Institute for Feeble-Minded Children, have decided in favor of Linooln.' ATTORNEY-GENERAII EDSAMJ gives it as his opinion that the amended registry law does not require a registration of the voters to be made for the county elec­ tion to be held in November, SUSAN DORR, an employe of the New York House, in Freeport, while making a bed the other morning discharged a re­ volver that had been left between the sheets. The ball entered below her hip, wounding her fatally. THE St. Louis Qlobe-Deniocrat learns that some twelve families have been forced to leave Williamson county, I1L, within the past week, to escape the ven­ geance of the outlaws who run that county, and many more are quietly ar­ ranging their business aflairs, .prepara­ tory to leaving. A FEW days ago, while Mr. Snyder, proprietor of the Urbana Republican, was superintending some press-work, he accidentally got his right hand caught in some part of the machinery, crushing it baaly. Mr. Snyder will not write any more editorials with that hand for some time to come. DURING the performance of Barnum's Hippodrome at Moline, last week, one man fell while riding, and was crushed so that he died the same day. Another performer was fatally injured by a fall, and canno ̂survive. On the same day another of Baruum's employes fell from a train at Freeport, and was Crushed to death. THE Rockford, Rock Island and St Louis railroad was sold at auction in Chicago, last Monday, by order of the United States Circuit Court, under a foreclosure ̂a mortgage in favor of the Union Trust Company, of New York, and was bid off by a representative of the bondholders in Germany for $1,320, 000, of which $200,000 was in cash. THE following is a statement of the condition of the national banks of Illi­ nois at the dose of business on the 90th of June: BSSOUBOKS. Loans and discounts $48,728,026.43 Overdrafts 388,051.70 U. 8. b^nds to secure circulation...... 13,611,800.00 U. S. bonds to secure deposits .. . 775,000.00 U. S. bonds on haW. 487,950.00 Other stocks, bonds, and mortgages... 840,319.15 Due from redeeming and reserve agts. 7,386,088.02 WHILE Steiner's balloon was floating at a great height over Oak Creek, Wis., a fresh arrival from the " ould dart" fol­ lowed the family from the residence out of doors to ascertain the cause of the ex- <iitenient which had induced the neigh­ bors to unceremoniously summon them. Now Bridget had heard nothing but the balloon talked of in the family circle for days, and her curiosity was strongly roused when she heard the cry in all di­ rections,"'" The balloon ! The balloon!" and she stared hard at the sky in the di­ rection the others were looking. " Do you see it, Bridget ?" questioned her mistre&s. excitedly. " Incla.de an' I j National bank notes outstanding ' . , ̂ . . . . . . T , , D i v i d e n d s u n p a i d don't, mum, she replied. IJOOK! I individual deports... look, Bridget! That little round i u. s. deposits away up there as far as you can see, Due from other national banks 2,958,477.Jif! Due from State banks and bankers.... 737,'283.23 Keal estate, furniture, and fixtures.... 2,087,111.88 Current expenses i ; . 364,7S;>.81 Premiums paid _462,007.51 Checks and other oash items,,........ 357,968.02 Exchanges for clearing-house 1,674,249.22 Bills of other national banks..<»,...... < 1,732,837.00 • Fractional currency '. 128,818.67 8pecie ........... 204,400.5# Legal-tender notes 8,464,892.00 United States certificates of deposit for legal-tender notes 865,000.00 Five per cent, redemption fund with Treasurer... 607,298.66 Due from Treasurer other, than 5 per oent. fund.. UABXUTIM. Capital stock paid in Surplus fund : Undivided profits. 154,267.94 f.---Bridget's eyes distended like an owl's as fche- caught sight of the object, and im- m?Iiately she exclaimed, tremulously, hall > J;- dei)0Btt8 una* , Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers... Due to national banks Due to St&to .i.. Notes and bills re discounted. Bills payable Number of banks, 144. $92,976,137.99 ...$19,351,000.00 ... 7,270,525.39 ... 2,086,077.74 ... 11,658,109.00 119,033.00 ... 37,335,893.85 390,434.74 251,212.52 8,403,105.49 6,939,8!7.'i? 111,645.80 59,782.79 $92,976,137.9 Kxtract from Senator Morton's Ohio 8p»eeh- Ar. Arraignment of the Demo­ cratic Party of the Past and Present-- The Southern QaeetiG*--Drafted ttebeis Still Cling to the Doctrine of state Rtghte--Secession Not Dead. Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy, now a member of Consfressand the representative man of South­ ern opaiiuu, in an addresH on the Fourth of July, at Atlanta, strongly stated the constitutional grounds upon which the poopleof the South --- ~o I)«uujctBtic party said that each State is a nation, sep&ngfruid independ­ ent, and distinct from all th^Sfoer*; that the 8 tat OH being separate and disfinnt nations. are attached together only by the'|> Constitution of the United States, which in a trAat.v to which the states in their sovereign independent char­ acter are parties, and not the people in their aggregate and primary capacity. He repre­ sents the States as sovereign nations like En­ gland and France, who have formed a treaty which they call a Constitution, creating an ar­ tificial Confederate government, resting upon the shoulders of the separate nations entering into the coalition. From this Constitution or Confederacy it follows that any of the national parties have a right to withdraw at pleasure, and this is the doctrine which made the rebell­ ion possible, by which it was inaugurated, and by which others may be upon any question, in any part of the country that may become dis­ satisfied or paf« undar the lead of rebellious demagogues. of which we have new & living and pestilent brood. The blood-stained and treasonable doctrine is openly avowed in the South, and indorsed by the Northern Democracy, under the phrase an<i labol of ' State Sovereignty." Senator Eaton, of Connecticut in a speech in the United States Senate, just before its adjournment last spring, used the following language: "What is this government? I heard an hon­ orable Senator on this floor, within the last •twenty days, call it a sovereign nation. A curious idea that Senator has of a representa­ tive republic! This government df ours, this great confederation of States, is not a nation; it is a confederacy of nations. It is composed of sovereignties. I know the honorable Senator from Indiana [Mr. Morton] stated in his seat, the other night, that there were no such things as independent sovereign States. * • * In the State of New Jersey, I bog to ask of the honorable Senator from New Jersey, is not New Jersey a sovereign State, sovereign in everything the States of this Union are except in the powers delegated to this organ of theirs, the Federal government ? And a nation, is it? Sir, I should distract* my own Htnto. I should forget the names of Ellsworth ami Hliemtan if I did not denounce that horony, * • A certain mmttor of the States, olevon, adopted luul ratified the Constitution of the United States. Nino was th<> nim'nnnu limit. Now, what became of that littln Commonwealth, so »bly represented on this lloor by mr distin- f;uishod friend from Rhode Island? ["Mr. An-hom.J She was out in the cold a year aud a half. What was she, 1 <i«ig to <w»k"my friend, the senior Representative from JUuHle Island, what was she for that year and a half? Not a member of this nation, of this Confederacy of States. "What was she, then? She waa one of the sov­ ereign powers of the earth, small though she was, ana floated her gldrious little flag over every sea. Neither gentlemen from Rhode Island will deny that she waa an independent sovereign j>owor of the earth. What was North Carolina, that refused to come iuto the Union ? One of the sovereign powers of the earth, aud every Senator knows it. Yet wo are told here that there are no independent States. Those States were sovereign and independent, owing no allegiance to the Constitution of the United Btates. They had delegated uo powers to the Federal Government. What did they lose ? I t-ssp, f.rt safe thn honorable uc-aator frou* liaoue Is\&iw?< whfi.t did Bhode Island lose of its sover­ eignty when it came into the Union except the powers it delegated when it came back'into the Federal Government ? * * * I announce that every State in this Confederacy is sover­ eign, is independent, as sovereign and inde- {>endent as it was in 1786, except in the powers t has delegated by the Constitution. I defy any man or Senator to successfully controvert it here or anywhere, now or at any time. * * * This is a government of States. This is a gov­ ernment of States, equal States, sovereign States, independent States. When it ceases to be a government of that character may it be long after I have laid my bones in the soil near my own river. That is the nature of this gov­ ernment in brief, formed by independent sov­ ereigns. formed by free States, formed by equal States." Here the Democratic Senator from New Eng­ land spoke the true sentimeuts of his party, and proves it be the enemy of our national ex­ istence. This Democratic creed is the doctrine of the rebellion. It has cost this nation half a million of lives and billions of treasure. It hatt peopled the land with widows and orphans, and tilled it with mourning. I denounce it as false in facts and logic. This government was not formed by the States, and is not the organ of the States, but by the people of the United States in their primary and aggregate capacity. The stamp of falsehood is placed upon this doctrine by the preamble of the Constitution, which declares " That we, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tran­ quility. provide for the common defense, pro­ mote the general welfare and secure the bless­ ings ef liberty to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish tlii» Constitution for the United States of America." To show the utter absurdity and folly of this doctrine, I cite a single fact. There are twenty-three States fotrmod out of the territory that belonged to the United States, and which was the property of the nation. These States wei'e created by acts of Congress, and but for those acts would to-day be dependent Territories. They are the offspring of Congressional legislation, and their rights, duties and prerogatives are pre­ scribed and defined by the Constitutian of the United States ; and yet, according to the Dem­ ocratic theory, as soon as they became States by acts of Congress they were vested with original and inherent sovereignty, a portion of which they have delegated to the Government of the United States, which is their mere or­ gan and creature--which is just as reasonable as for a man to claim to be his own father. The Democratic party is not national, be­ cause it denies the nation. It is sectional, be­ cause it asserts that the country is composed of independent sections, connected together only by a written agreement. We are some­ times told that ' the doctrine of State sovereignty is dead; but whether dead or alive, the Demo­ cratic party is chained to its carcass, and must live or be buried with it. But this doctrine, most unfortunately, is not dead, although it undoubtedly stinks and survives, a political leprosy to taint the air. and, I fear, to corrupt the blood of future generations. No party that professes it, no man that believes in it, should ever be placed in the administration of the na­ tional government, because he and thev are the enemies of the nation. The Republican party is the national party, because it alone be­ lieves in the existence of the nation. It is the only friend of the States, became it believes they are sister States, and jot independent powers, bound together indiseolubly m one national bond aud family, each possessing her sacred rights guaranteed by the bond, the honor, and the natural ties and affection of the whole family. We are told by Democratic speakers and papera that the system of reconstruction adopted for the State.-s lately in rebellion is a failure and a blunder, but in the next bi'eath we are assured that all is peace and quiet in the South; that the people have accepted the situation, and there is no longer any disturbing element but the Republican politician. If this politician is a native of the South he is de­ scribed as a scalawag, a renegade and low character, and visited with all the opprobrium society can heap upon him. If he is from the North he is denounced as a carpet-bagger, come down to plunder and eat out their sub­ stance. In either case, he gives the colored people bad advice--that is, he advises them to vote the Republican ticket and stand up for their own rights, and but for him, we are told, the colored people would do well enough--that is, submit tliemselves to their old masters and keep iiieii places, xhere is a vast and sys­ tematic effort to mislead and defraud the North­ ern mind in regard t<> the sentiments and policy of the Democratic party in the South. And here let me say that in speaking of the un­ reconciled, hostile and disturbing people of the SouUi, I am speaking of the Democratic party, for into that party is gathered every disloyal element, the White Leaguers, the Ku-Klux, the last-ditchers, the unreconstructed and negro- haters of high and low d»rrrAg_ And when it is thrown into our faoee that we have not reconstructed the South, it means simply that we have not reconstructed and re­ generated the Democratic party. Nor do I mean to say that there is uit in the South a large body of honest, well-meaning, weil-di'»- posed people, acting with the Democratic party. But I do meau to say that they do not control and direct the party, but are controlled . ««pi on bv tiie classes of people 1 have just mentioned, just as at the beginning of the rebellion there were throughout the South a great body of people opposed to secession, in "VM4U \Jk VIIV OWlltJB a UlAJUiiv^, lawiuviiu^ bUC best and most intelligent; but they were over­ ruled, bullied and silenced by the same classes who now contro the Democratic party. It is of the first importance that we should under­ stand Southern sentiment and policy correctly, in order that we may not do injustice on the one hand, nor be swindled and overreached on the other. - » I do not propose to cheat or be cheated, if I can help it. I have studied the situation well, and I believe I understand it. The system of reconstruction is based upon the principles of equality, justice and humanity, and in the hands of its friends has made progress and will triumph, but in the hands of its enemies will be defeated. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, for years after their enactment, were denounced by the Democracy North and Rnntli Aft Toid, not hs,Y- ing been legally ratified, and have not been recognized yet, except in the slightest and most indirect manner, and if the Democracy had control of the rational government, would, in the Southern States, be igsored and run over. The condition of t\»e South, 1 doubt not, is improving politically, as we know it is rapidly in material "wealth and prosperity; but this political improvement is slow, and has not made such progress m to change the action or purpose of the Democratic massen of the South, should the Democratic party come into possession of the national government. While the white people are becoming somewhat accus­ tomed to the exercise fey the colored people of civil and political rights, and the tendency to violence on that account has to some extent abated, yet it would bs a great and fatal mistake to suppose that they are reconcilcd io their new xelutions to rthe colored race, or have, in the language of the day, accepted the situation. Although it is often said by Southern politicians that they would not restore -slavery if they oould, yet I do not believe that it is true in re­ gard to the great mass of former slave-holders, while I do believe that they look upon suoh restoration as impossible under the circum­ stances, and hence do not live in hope of it. But there is no doubt that the members of the Democratic party in the South, with few excep­ tions, look UIJOU the colored people as a race that ought stir t j b-s enslaved, who were made free wrongfully by the accident of war, and deeply resent their elevation to civil and political rights aud equality. And while thoy do not live in the hope of the restoration of slavery in its old form, they are full of hope and faith that the time will soon come when the colored race in their midst will, by legislation and show of force, be deprived of *,their political and civil rights and reduced to a legal inferiority and position, midway between "slavery and that political equality to which they are Justly en­ titled by che Constitution and the natural rights of man. Their policy may be summed up in a single sentence--"T^e reconstruction of the South upon the whi» man's basis." Tins they can­ not hope to do while the national government remains under the control of the Republican party ; but when thoy have secured the posses­ sion of that, then in the Southern States, in which they have the power, they will proceed without fear of molestation of iiinuniiice io work out their policy of subjugation, and to acquire the power in other States by the fatal machinery of violeuce and terror that have been already so successfully employed. To ac­ quire the possession of the national govern­ ment is the first great step in the accomplish­ ment of their policy, and to this end thoy will mask their purposes as far as possible, and do everything ui their power to lull the apprehen­ sions of the people of the North. To this end they will suppress, as far as possible, the vio­ lent utterances of their politicians aud conven­ tions, and talk in general phrase of reconcilia­ tion aud fraternity. To this end they will toast and flatter the correspondents of" Northern newspapers, lavish upon them social attention, treat them with ostentatious hospitality, fill their ears with professions of peace and good will to the colored race, and weave around them a net aud a maze of false appearances until they have them to write those deceitful and pleasing aocounts which they would have the people of the North believe. But whatever facile correspondents may write, the great fact remains that an over­ whelming majority of all who were engaged in the rebellion are to-dav bitterly hostile to the emancipation of the slaves and their elevation to civil and political rights, aud are watching with intense eagerness for the hour and oppor­ tunity when they can cast them head'ioug down a precipice. They believe these will be found in the success of the Democratic party. ^ If you would be fully instructed, inquire who to-day are the leaders of the Democratic party. Not one who took part in the suppression of the rebellion ; not one. Tlioir motto is, let no such man be trusted. If auv soldior who fought for the Union imagines that he has ob­ tained, or can possibly obtain, the confidence of the Democratic party, let him be unde­ ceived. They may, for purposes of policy in doubtful localities or States where they are weak, gixe him a subordinate oriice, but even that no longer than the necessity lasts, and never by any chance will he be placed in a commancling position. Look at the leaders of the Democratic party in Indiana, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, everywhere--they are Bour­ bons all, untainted by a single patriotic resolve or action for the suppression of the rebellion. They are your Thurmans, Hendricks, Til- deus, Bayards, Sevmoura, Keruans, Ea- tons, Pendletons. ei id omne gmux, gentlemen of ability, each and every one of whom has been the unrelenting antagonist or the government from il.o day our flag was hauled down in blood from the summit of Fort Sumtor. They have denied the power of Cou- gress to coerce a State to remain in the Union. They have asserted the unconstitutionality of every great measure to prosecute the war, Thev cast the whole weight of their influence against the Government throughout the strug­ gle. Tlaey proclaimed the President's procla­ mation of "emancipation to be a flagrant viola- latiou of the Constitution.;, Tliey went to Chi­ cago in 18C4, in the midst of the last great campaign, arid published to the woild that the war was a failure, and should be abandoned. They fought to the bitter end the Thirteenth • Amendment, abolishing and forever prohibit­ ing slavery; with equal bitterness they fought the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibiting the assumption of the rebel debt, the payment for the slaves, aud establishing the equal rights of citizens in all the States. They resisted with increased energy, if that were possible, the Fifteenth Amendment, which declared that uo man should be deprived of the fight of suf­ frage on account of bis race or color. And in 18CS they solemnly declared in Convention that the reconstruction laws were null and void; thus encouraging the Southern people to resist themy and making themselvesjresponsible for much of the blood and violence that fol­ lowed that dreadful teaching. These are but the leading points of a long and consistent career, that have endeared these distinguished leaders to the Confederate Democracy of the South, and placed them with unquestioned title at the head of the party. Whoever aspires to lead must bring credentials like these, or his claims will not be considered. This unbroken career of fifteen years of oppo­ sition to every effort to preserve the nation, to everv measure of liberty and humanity, point with" unerring significance and certainty to the future. It constitutes a platform for action, compared with which the resolutions of con­ ventions are but empty bubbles blown by straws. What these men would do in power we know by their course for nearly a lifetime out of power. Hut we are told that the issues of the war are settled, that old things have passed away, aud all things have become new. I wuuld ihis so, end that the mighty issues of the war were settled forever and accepted by all. But tiie truth is that to the uusettlement of these ques­ tions the restoration as far as possible to from men of all parties His life was safe, so* V from violence, insult flndpGiMfe* eution on account of his rebel kiMory. SI would uuu Domoctfttic politiciRtiB inolin^d run after him and and Uonizs him , Wi, Bepotjb beans, while they did not do that, and were n«* inclined to vote for him and put him jn offioflt yet treated him with the kindness and respe<$» to which his merits as a man entitled him, anft did nothing to prevent his success as a farmeC* merchant, lawyer, or in any business h« nug» choose to follow. He could advocate any opia. ion in the North, could attend any church. Ht* children could attend any school, without insult things ante-bellum, the placing of the Confed­ erate upon the same footing with the Union soldier, the payment of the Confederate war- claims, the abolition of all distinctions in the law between loyalty and disloyalty. the expulsion of the negro from the platform of political equality, and finally, pay­ ment for their slaves, are to-day the cardinal, all-absorbing, overruling purposes of the Southern Democracy, compared to which ques­ tions of currency, tariffs and banks, are but as dust in the balance. To-day servicc in the Confederate army is the only passport to office in the Southern States. As against the Con- fftdernto soldier, the Union soldier «ho w»v have turned Democrat has no possible show for an office. Adherence to the rebellion is the sole touchstone in the South, not only for .po­ litical, but almost equally so for social and LuBiueBB recugiiuiou. Even iu Kentucky, just over the river, no Union soldier, be he ever so loud in his professions of Democracy, can be elected constable if any Confederate sol­ dier wants the place. And in the North the men who opposed the war by every means in their power, of the kind l" have before de­ scribed, are the only accepted and trusted leaders of the Democratic party. Yet, in the face of these notorious facts, Democratic k>aders and newspapers have the amaziug ef­ frontery to ask Republicans to forget the war and the men who fought for the Union, and to cease all distinctions between the Union and Confederate soidiers. Such a policy would be entirely on one sido, and the Union sol­ diers, forgotten by the Republicans, would, to UMO a mil4 phrase, be left out in the cold. The nexr House of Repi'6f*:ijt«iiv6a will con­ tain seventy-four Democratic mouibers from the South who wore in the rebel array, and a number from the North who were Confederates iii sympathies, and in everything but the actual bearing of arms, And those sue the men who are to legislate for the loyal people of the na­ tion. But are told by gushing and slopny tourists that ail ia now peace and quiet m the South, and that the tales of murder, oppres­ sion and outrage upon black and white Repub­ licans were weak Inventions of oarpet-bftggera for political purposes. It is true these tales have been established by many thousands of depositions sworn to by men of all parties on the spot, taken before numerous committees of Congress, sent dowa there from year to year, commencing in 1865, including three during last winter, constituting a vast bodv of testimony too great for anv man to read in liis lifetime, and which is concealed from the world bv its enormous volume. But this is all ignored by the credulous who accept for the tmth the pompous denials and grand­ iloquent statements of politicians, and in many cases of the murderers and criminals them« selves. Any one at all familiar with the evi­ dence that has been taken in regard to the condition of the South during the last nine years must not only know that the tales were generally true, but have reason to believe that the half has not been told. But, say those who have not the hardihood to deny the truth, whatever may have taken place iu the South, he White Leaguers, the Ku-Klux, and other disturbers of the peaoe have now disbanded, submitted to the laws, and henceforth there will be peace aud security for all. What reason have we to believe that ? Just now there is no induoement to cut throats, burn, whip and drive out. There are no impor­ tant elections on hand in those States. They are standing on their good behavior, and are anxious to impress the people of tiie North with their peaceable and virtuous intentions. But the same men are there yet, animated with the same spirit aud purpose, and ready to resort to the same means whenever it becomes neoessaiy to achieve success. They were educated in vi( - lance by slavery aud the rebellion, by the fierce prejudice aud conflict of race, most of them profoundly ignorant, and at the merey of reck­ less aud desperate leaders. The Confederate Democracy of the South constitute the body and give vitality to the whole Democratic nartv. They compose a majority, oi its actual member­ ship. They have definite aims and an intense policy. They are bold and aggressive, and are confident of controlling the party iu the future as iu the days before the war. The Democracy of the North have no policy, uo scheme of government, are not agreed upon any ques­ tion of political economy, are4»armonious only in their desire and straggle for ottice, and are mere clay in the hands of Confederate potters. The South will give them the principal offices, and they will give to the South the measures-- an arrangement highly satisfactory on both sides. The Northern leaders are continually preach­ ing to the Republican party amnesty, fraternity, obi livion in regard to the rebellion, but exact no such conditions from their Southern allies, who make adherence to the Confederate cause their universal political test. We have forgiven the men who were engaged in the rebellion. All but about one hundred leaders in that great crime have had every po­ litical disability ( removed arising under the Fourteenth Amendment, and are eligible to be elected to the highest office in the laud. Thev have from the first had the right to vote. I had not suppBsed that I should ever do such a thing, but I believe now that I am williag io vote for a bill next winter which will take from the small nlmiber remaining their political disa­ bilities, to take effect on the 4th day of July, 1876, so that all men, without regard to their race, color or previous political condition or history, may start into the next century on an equality be'fore the law, and may God put it iuto tiie hearts of the people to do justice, give protection, aud secure equal rights to every race and condition iu all parts of the nation. But I wish not to be misunderstood. While I would bury the animosities and hatreds of the war, I would not compromise or forget the principles upon which it was fought, nor thp memorv of the men who died for their country. We have forgiven those who were in rebellion, but forgiveness does riot imply honor or re­ ward. We may forgive our enemies, but are not bound to honor and prefer them over our friends. We must ever remember that there was a right and a wrong side; that tiie right must be honored aud respected now and here­ after; that while wo forgive the enemies of the Republic, we believe there can be no true re­ construction .or reconciliation that is not found­ ed upou the unity of the nation, equal rights, equal justice, equal eecurity to all, full tolera­ tion of race and opinion. Until these things shall come to pass the Republican party cannot ground its arms, nor can it be said that its mis­ sion has been performed. It is enough that we have fully and freely fox-given those who waged the rebellion and drenched the land with fraternal blood, and when we are asked to ignore the Union soldier, to refuse to recount his services for fear of wounding rebel susceptibilities, to reduce him to the level of the Confederate soldier, to forget the Union men of the South, and make heroes before the Northern people of their bitterest foes and op­ pressor J, it is too much, and is as wicked as it is stupid and absurd. As between the Union „ . - ol . and fconfederale soldiers, there is still, and A Bold Leap DJ ft GlrU should ever be, a great choice. The proposi- , ̂rash leap was made by a younjr ffili rtrL t*u.-J*. reoouciled to the people of the "South you must ; 7lig . the lilble Ijillistian congregation treat the Union and Confederate soldier as I from Port Stanley to London was daslfe» being equally honest, equally patriotic, each j pagt the Boss farm, about 2i milan fighting for what he believed to be righMreat ( from from the city. It appears thai them with equal consideration, make no prefer- , . .. , ,, + j „ • i j ences or distinctions in rewards or honor*. ' ftt the spot mentioned a girl named This proposition abolishes all distinctions be- Millie lieorge, about 12 y«ars of ago, tween right aud wrong, loyalty and treason, ; daughter of Mr. William George, cofr- betweeh fighting for freedom and filavexy. he- • uer Qf Clarence and Nelson streets, waa V o* uiiierrapnan. ; ' - . . . ... When this state of things is reciprocated |gt , 4s the South, reconstruction will be complete, -J ! When Republicans in the South are protect®! by the laws, are not oppressed by society, sm not persecuted in their business, in their schools, or cuarchee, becatiBe of their political or support of the Union cause during the wat^ , - ^ or because they came from the North, bnt iM ; J treated according to their merits and character ^ aa men and women, then there will be political peace and fraternity; until then, not. We don't r#* r vffj" quire them to vote the Republican ticket, or ijg^ ^ r-sf support Union instead of Confederate soldier% • for these are matters of opinion which belon# to liberty of thought and action, the very thinj|r'v /"T f we are contending shall be extended to the Re*», • , publicans of the South. Reconstruction cant* ' * not take place at Northern celebrations oj|\ (i \'~ junketings, but in every Southern neighbors • hood iu daily life, by conceding to people ot <. all colors and opinions equal protection, justio^ and the full enjoyment of their ri^ht». the Constipation and is.-™ = o£ iiic I «ule.. State* - / and of the States in which they live. Wheaf 4 that time comes the great result for which t " have been laboring will be accomplished, and j'. ^' ahaii know thai the war is over, , ^ ":V ' Something for Everybody, STRAW matting should be washed with a cloth dampened in salt water. Indian % ineal sprinkled over it. and thoroughly swept out will also oleanse it iinely. To PREVENT hard soap, prepared with soda, from crumbling, the bars may be dipped in a mixture of resin soap, beef tallow, and wax. SCRAPED or powdered French chalk is used by bootmakers to make new boot* or shoes go on easily, by rubbing o* dusting a little of it on the inside of the heel and instep of the boot. To RENDER the colors of cotton fabrio permanent, dissolve three gills of salt in four quarts of water; put the calico ia while hot, and leave it till cold; it will ̂ not fade by subsequent washing. A GOOD cement for attaching labels to metallic surfaces is composed of gum. v tragacauth mucilage ten parts, honey ~7 ten parts, flour one part. MANY kinds of close-grained hard­ wood may be made to resemble ebony by ̂ soaking them in a moderately strong solution of sulphate of iron and tannin for a week or more. The color will penetrate the wood and render it capa­ ble of takipg a fine polish. PAPERING and fainting are best dona in cold weather, especially the latter, for the wood absorbs the oil of paint much more in warn! weather; while in cold r weather the oil hardens on the outside, ' making a coat which will protect tho wood instead of soaking into it. Do NOT be content with having a well- regulated front yard only, but see to ii that the back yard is tidy aiid clean. If onlv covered with grass it is neat, as well as useful for bleaching purposes. * Place here a plat of bright flowers to give some variety, even if it be done al the expense of the front yard. Keep it orderly; don't let sticks ̂old hoop skirts, ' tin cans and all kinds of rubbish lift around, to be moved from place,to plaoe, annoying you and breeding pestilence. > VB»ETABLBS should never be washed until immediately before prepared fof . the table. Lettuce is made almost worthless iii flavor, by dipping it Uf water some hours before it is strvedl* Potatoes suffer more than other vegeta­ bles through the washing process. They should not be put in water till just ready for boiling. PROFESSOR NESSEBB says that the keeping qualities of smoked meat do not depend upon the amount of smok­ ing, but upon, the uniform and propet ; diying of the meat. It is of consider* 1 ble advantage also to roll the meal 011 It*. ' removal from the salt, before smoking* in sawdust or bran. By this means the crust formed in smoking will not be so thick; and if moisture condenses upoft - the meat it remains in the bran, th$ brown coloring msitte^of the smoke not ' * -penetrating. The btf'st place to keep th®. . meat is in a sm©&e-house, in which it< remains dry, without drying out entirely as it does when hung in a chimney.. GUNS and rifles may be easily cleaned from lead by the following: If a muzzle- loader, stop up the nipple or communi­ cation hole with a little wax, or, if a breech-loader, "insert a cork in the breech rather tightly; next pour some quiqksilver into tiie barrel, and put an­ other cork in the muzzle, then proceed to roll it up and down the barrel, shak­ ing it about for a few minutes. Tho mercury and the lead will form an amal­ gam, and leave the barrel as clean and free from lead as the first day it came out of the shop. The same quicksilver . can be used repeatedly, by straining i| through wash-leather; for the lead wi® be left behind in the leather, and the quicksilver will be again fit for nse. tween civilization and barburism, and wuile affecting impartiality, insults the living, and the iifcuiory of the dead who fought for country, liberty and humanity. In the Democratic mind amnesty and forgive­ ness are inseparably connected with honor, re- 1 standing on the platform of the second last carriage, several of the other scholars being with her. A gust of wind blew off her hat. Apparently thinking it too good to lose, she jumped off the carriage ward and preference. But 1^ | unobserved, 6trauge to relate, by any erf specially of the Democracy of that of "the North to-day recognizes 110 leader, no representative man who is not identified with imposition to the work of reconstruction, and to the amendment* ; and those Uiuon of­ ficers and soldiers who are serving iu their ranks will find that there is a latent suspicion and hostilitv attaching to them which will pro- vent them from ever being placed in command. her companions. She was seen to fall 01 her hands and knees, aud to rise up, in hand, and ruu after the train. Thos# in the last carriage pulled the bell-rope^' but it was apparently unworkable, or al least was unobserved by the conductors,, as the train arrived in the city before While preaching tolerance, the party practices , they weri fully apprised of the affair* intolerance, and is like the boatman who looks . time was loSfc, in dispatching an en?* one wav and rows the other. ] .innn 4a linS *n lank for the cour« one wav The Democratic party has labored under the gine along the line to look for the eour» mistake that it wasthe North and no: the South j ageous little girl. Fortunately, to £+[,. that was to be reconstructed ; that it waif North- I great relief of the girl s mother amy nejj^ ern sentiment and manners, not Southern, that 1 ' * 1 ' required reformatio". Froni the end nf the war up to this time the veriest rebel South could come into any Northern State witli the assurance of kind and respectful treatment, whether traveling, or in business or society, friends, who were in a -sad plight at thf, Station, isiie Slldueill) puj ill appraiww#:' at heme, with but a few scratches m r e m e m b r a n c e r o f h e r r a s h s o t . -- ^ ' (Oan.) JFVee iV«w. ^ ' f ..-V