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- • ' V » . -m it: :v-" . ^ X / 1 * * W > » ' ***&& ' She Ptl |ititri| §laindfaler, J. VAN SLYKE, PCBLISHEB. jMoHENKT, - - ILLINOIS. s s GOSSIP OF THE BAY, * 'I " ••' " -- ' ĵpAiN will send over, during Septem­ ber and October, 22,000 troops to fertil­ ize the soil of Cuba. MOODY and Sankey, the evangelists, will open their fall campaign in Wash­ ington at the 1st of October. THE cable announces that seven more Cardinals are to be created at the next Consistory. Six of them will be ap­ pointed from Italy, and one--Archbishop of Rennes--from France. »v THE two children of Prof. D^aldson, the lost aeronaut, are from a divorced wife, whom he married in Reading, Pa., find who is still living. The children •are at present being well cared for in Buffalo, N,' Y. The Professor al­ ways evinced much affection for his little •ones.. ' ' - A Niw wonder has been discovered in California--a rival to the famous Yo Se­ mite Valley. The new valley is on Kings *river, is forty-five miles in length from east to west, and has an average width at the bottom of about half a mile. It lies 5,000 feet above the sea, and its walls, which are about 3,000 feet high, :are very precipitous. COMMENTING upon the fact that at a recent trial in Fitcliburg, Mass., the plaintiff put onfe of his ears in as evi­ dence--it having been bitten off by the defendant--the St. Louis Republican is cruel enough to say : " It is interesting to imagine a Chicago man thus mutilated •offering to produce the same evidence, and the Judge detailing four policemen to bring in the ear?' IF the telegraph is to be believed, -Gen. Sherman is the fastest traveler that ever packed a traveling-bag. A dispatch from San Francisco, dated Aug. 31, printed in the Chicago Times, an­ nounces his arrival on that day in Port­ land, Oregon. In the same column of the Times is another telegram from Montreal, nearfy 4,000 miles away, an­ nouncing the General's arrival in the Canadian metropolis. Wonder if he was propelled by the Keely motor ? THE " Irish giant" and prize-fighter, O'Baldwin, is said to be dying of con­ sumption. Nearly all the noted profes­ sional pugilists who have had sharp ex­ perience in the ring have died of lung disease in one form or another. Tom Sayers, John C. Heenan and Aaron Jones "went to grass" in this way. What a pity these athletes, upon whom nature has lavished such magnificent bone and sinew, should waste the precious gifts in worse than brutal busi­ ness. RALSTON, the suicide-banker, has more birth-places than any man we have heard •of lately. Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts, have each put in a claim to the honor of having given the great financier to the world. George Alfred Townsend says he was born in Ohio. As George Alfred is the greatest falsifier that has lived since the days of Ananias, we forthwith ignore the claim of Ohio. As between the other three ^States, " you pays your money and takes your choice." " ITALIAN Crimes " -- " Murder of van Englishman at Naples for a Trifling Of­ fense"--"Trial of Brigands in Yiterbo." Such was the caption, in flaming black type, that greeted the eyes of the Chicago Times readers, the other morning. Upon perusing the article, however, what must must have been the astonishment of its thousands of readers to find no mention of " Italian crimes," but simply a tame Account of a Spiritual seance in New York. Evidently the Chicago Times' types were on a big spree that day. Or mayhap, the foreman belongs to a "whisky ring." THE Bank of California was a private bank, chartered by the State of Califor­ nia, and issued no notes. It had a paid- up capital of $5,000,000, and deposits varying from $6,000,000 to $9,000,000. It has been identified with the history of thte State. It was founded in 1864, and •was originally intended to secure tile business of the mines; its owners be­ came rich, and their ambition found new and other fields for operation. It grasped control of the commerce of the Pacific coast. It secured a monopoly of the quicksilver production. It entered into the business of buying mining stocks, and played bull or bear, as cir­ cumstances demanded. It extended i|s • operations to Oregon, British Columbia, and even grasped the control of the fur trade in Alaska. It erected itself into a financial despot. It controlled the grain market; it dictated to all the other banks; it regulated the rates of discount nnd the terms on which loans were made. It Crushed merchants and bankers remorse­ lessly. . It, in one way or the other, con­ trolled the trade with Japan and China, and the importation of teas. * The whole coast trade and that with the itandwich .Islands was under its command. It was ~ 7 universally feared and hated, but it de­ fied all opposition. Its business with England was immense, and it had also large transactions with France. It made the foreign exchange for California and all the Pacific States, and for the Sand­ wich Islands, and for the Japan and fihintt trade dome throngh San Fran­ cisco. It had correspondents and finan­ cial agents in all countries, and there is scarcely any kind of business or stocks in which it did not dabble. It also went extensively into politics. It violated all the legitimate laws of banking; and has paid dearly for the penalty. . - A Mr. QtmsN has been'giving illustra­ tions in Chicago of the Paul Boyton life-preserving apparatus. It consists of two sections of inflated rubber for the upper and lower portions of the human body, ingeniously fastened at the waist so as to render the suit waterproof. The apparatus is inflated by projecting tubes, the exit of the air being prevented by thread*buttons of brass. Mr. Quinn en­ tertained large numbers of sight-seers on Lake Michigan by attaching a pail to the ankle of his rubber outfit, and steer­ ing with a paddle he held in his hand. In this manner he floated ever the bois. terous waves as securely as though aboard the^taunchest craft. The inflated portidn of the apparatus being com­ partments, he could vary his position frcm the horizontal to the vertical at pleasure. Accompanying him was an inflated rubber bag, containing the morning paper, cigars and matches, luncheon, and the same black bottle which accompanies all well-ordered ex­ cursions, all of which he appeared to enjoy with more gusto thau the observers on the steamers. The apparatus is in­ genious and novel, but we do not believe it can ever become of general practical utility. " MERE MENTION. GEN. SHERMAN is 56. JOHN B. GOUGH is 58. BOSTON has 476 schools. THE farmers are happy. SNAKES eat potato-bugs. RALSTON was 50 years old. COL. FORNEY is in Holland. CARL SCHURZ is in Switzerland. • THE. cholera has abated in Syria. ^ OXEN are a dollar a head in Egypt. CALIFORNIA has 800.000 inhabitants. QuiNcr, EL, has 35,000 population. THE Pope is rid of his rheumatism. FLORIDA rivers are hard to navigate. WHITELAW REID is a skilled violinist. THE potato-rot has reappeared in Ire­ land. DELANO is still confined with rheuma­ tism. • A CALIFORNIA man owns a 45,000-acre ranch. THE crop prospects deserve making an oat of. A GEORGIA farmer is putting in a crop of tea. THERE is talk of a Chinese oollege in Nevada. THE British Museum has 1,100,000 volumes. THE richest woman in America is at' Newport. EX-SENATOB HARLAN, of Iowa, is ill in Colorado. GERMANY has 1,000,000 more women than men. W. C. RALSTON was born near Pitts­ burgh, Pa. AUGUSTA, Ga., shipped 264,000 melons this season. THE height of folly--Three miles up in a balloon. THE assessment of Boston figures up $793,767,000*- A VIRGINIA man hasVound a double headed turtle, CINCINNATI annonp&es a trial of saus age machines. NEW YORK senjds out 40,000 foreign letters a day. BARNUM has pai(i $20,000 for a baby hippopotamus. ST. PETER'S Churjbh at Rome will hold 54,000 persons. THE grasshopper plague has turned un in Germany. P. C. ARMIGO, of New Mexico, owns 2,000,000 sheep. A BROTHER of the late Sam Houston lives in Chicago. FRANCE is importing large numbers of horses from Russia. BANKING and speculating don't get along well together. A TENNESSEE editor takes huckleber­ ries on subscription. THE butchers of Montreal are going to start a newspaper. A MAN in Liverpool killed his oppo­ nent in a prize-tight. COMMODORE VANDERBILT'S properly is all in his son's name. DURING last year 150,000,000 stamped envelopes were made. SARTORIS and Nellie are coming back to live in this country. BEN BUTLER and Theodore Til ton have been clam-eating together. "THE Grand Opera House, New York, has been sold for $500,000. IN England $585,000,000 is invested in the production of alcohol. SAN FRANCISOO has . a female frog catcher ; she wears breeches. W. C. RALSTON was formerly a clerk on a Mississippi river steamer. IN 59 years the American Bible Society .has issued 31,893,332 copies of the Bible. OVER 93,000 persons have been killed in the country by accident in six months. ILLINOIS NEWS. A PENNSYLVANIA man lately succeeded in setting on the largest-sized French boot, but in trying to get it off again he broke his leg. Which is another argu­ ment for the duly of protecting home manufactures. HAM the IrasineBB portion of the vil­ lage of Greenup, Cumberland oounty, has been destroyed by fire. ̂ THE new directory of Bloomington and McLean county gives the population of the city at 22,000, and the county at 60.000. THE third annual State Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Illinois will be held in Jacksonville, Oct. 7, 8, 9 and 10. DB. R. H. SHEPPABD, a prominent physician of Eureka, Peoria oounty, was recently drowned while attempting to cross a swollen stream in a buggy. JOEL HARVEY, an old and wealthy citi­ zen of Sterling, was killed a few days ago by accidentally falling from the win­ dow of his offioe to the sidewalk, ̂ dis­ tance of twenty feet. JOHN MALONY fell down cellar last Sunday morning, at Riverton, Sangamon county, arfd broke his neck. Death re­ sulted immediately. He was under the influence of liquor at the time. AN old-settlers' picnic is to be held at Bloomington on the 23d inst. Addresses will be delivered by Judge David Davis, of the United States Court, Gen. Asahel Gridley, Judge McClure, and the Hon. Jesse W. Fell, of Normal. A FINE bam, belonging to Thomas Derby, located a few miles west'of Jack­ sonville, was burned on Saturday night, together with the contents, including a large quantity of wheat. The loss is probably $8,000; insured in the iEtna, of Hartford, for $4,500. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an inoe ndiary THE medical profession is not venerat­ ed in Quincy. Speaking of a somnam­ bulist adventure in which the deep- walker was a woman, who came to grief in trying to leap from a house-top, the reporter says: "A physician was sum­ moned, and the dangerous adventure may terminate fatally to the young lady." THE Bloomington Daily Pantograph has been sued by Prof. Charles McK. Trimmer, a traveling music-teacher, who parries on country singing-schools in Central Illinois, for $15,000, which he considers but slight recompense for in­ jury inflicted on his feeling, credit, and business by the Pantagraph in calling him a dead-beat and a sorrel-topped lyre. THE following are the new freight rates between Chicago and Dubuque over the Illinois Central railroad: Be­ tween Chicago and Dubuque and Dun leith: First-class, 50 cents; second- class, 40 cents ; third-class, 35 cents ; fourth-class, 25 cents; grain, per 100 lbs, car loads, 25 cents ; flour, per brl, 100 brls in car, 50 cents ; lumber, lath and shingles, per car, 20,000 lbs, $37. fr is now probable that the recent erf* pedition of the two St. Louis editors to Winnebago county, to fight a duel, may have an unpleasant ending. Gov Bev- eridge has notified the State's Attorney at Rockford that ifSThis duty to see that the matter be brought before the next grand jury of Winnebago county, and the parties concerned may have a chance of serving a term in the Peni­ tentiary. RECENT postal changes in this State: Office Established--Four-Mile Prairie, Perry county, Prior L. Cloud, Post­ master. Discontinued--Cherry Point City, Edgar county; Guiford, Jo Da­ viess county; Pink Prairie, Henry county. Postmasters Appointed--Bas- co, Hancock county, John H. Briard; Ellis Mound, Hamilton oounty, James R. Hall; Elmore, Peoria county, John Cole; Hopper's Mills, Henderson county, Francis M. Jackson; New Hebron, Crawford county, J. J. Page; New Mil- ford, Winnebago county, William H. Gardner; Ravinia, Lake county, Mrs. Carrie Curtisj^ THE following patents have recently been issued to inventors in this State: Station indicator, L. V. Adams, Rock Island; sewing machine attachment, N. Barnum, Chicago; lantern, C. J. Sykes, Chicago; vehicle end gate, F. C. Broods, Gilman; water elevator, J. Chandler, Barry; reading and writing desk, L. G. Fairbanks, Chicago; harrow,. J. W. Hutcliins, Clinton; box scraper, G. Meyer, Quincy; chair, H. Reupke, Chi­ cago; hay gatherer, P. Russell, Jefferson; grain meter, W. Colwell, Chillicothe; boot and shoe, W. Meyer and H. Frie- burg, Quincy; corn harvester, C. D. Reed, Polo; draft equalizer, H. Sensen- baugh, Sharon; evaporating pan, J. M* Thumb, Metropolis City. THE church scaadal which has re­ cently agitated Quincy to its very social foundation has had a tragic sequel in the shooting of one of the witnesses and an innocent spectator. Judge Mitchell, who had given some damaging state­ ments reflecting upon the Rev. Hoff­ man and his relations with the wife of City Engineer Chatten, was attacked in the streets of Quincy by Chatten, who attempted to flog him with a whip. Mitchell, not relishing this kind of sport;, drew a revolver to defend himself. Chatten also drew his little pistol, and firing commenced on both sides. Mitch ell was wounded in three places--in the groin, hip and arm--and was also struck with a stone hurled byabrother of Chat­ ten, and knocked down. An innocent spec­ tator received a ball in the calf of the leg. Chatten escaped without a scratch. Was It Gold that 1M It! "Aha," howl the Democrats and the •hmplasterinflation organs, "thereyou go; your specie basts has proved a delu­ sion and a snare; the banking in that State is done on specie; the Bank of California was a gold bank, and it has collapsed; all the other banks in Califor­ nia are gold Iwmks, and they are totter­ ing. So, you see, it will not do to talk about a return to specie payment. It will be fatal. The banks can't stand it." This is the sort of stupid stuff which we will be forced to listen to as one of the consequences of the recent failure in San Francisco. It can only appeal to the most abject ignorance; but- unfortu­ nately there is so much of this that it will not fail to make more or less im­ pression. The conclusion of the thought­ less will be: "Well, if banks fail on a specie basis, we don't see that we are any worse off with greenbacks." C ^ Of course the failure of the Bank of California lias nothing whatever to do with the greeenback and specie ques­ tion. Banks failed before greenbacks were invented, ai}d we fear will continue to fail long after greenbacks shall have disappeared and been forgotten. Wher­ ever the practices of illegitimate banking prevail, there will be bank failures. Wherever bankers use the money of their depositors for speculative purposes,.dis­ aster will ensue sooner or later, whether these deposits are in gold or in green­ backs. There isno (juetation in the case of the Bank of California as to the re­ demption of notes of issue, because it had no notes of issue. If there had been outstanding bank notes, and the bank had been forced to close its doors on ac­ count of its inability to redeem them in gold, the gold and greenback question might possibly l|»ve been lugged in; but this cuts no figure whatever. Had the Bank of California been engaged in greenback banking, the collapse might perhaps have come sooner, because it would have been exposed to the varia­ tions and vacillations that have affected the rest of the country; but it would have had no especial effect on the general result «f investing illegitimately the capital and deposits of a bank. The best answer that can be made to tlife general assertion which is sure to be made by the sliinplaster inflationists, that the Bank of California failed be-- cause it was trying to do business on a specie basis, is simply tins: It was not specie, but the lack of specie, that swamped the Bank of California. It made a pretense of doing a banking busi­ ness on a specie basis, but the result has demonstrated that it had no specie. It hadn't even greenbacks. It had no money of any kind. That is the reason why it was forced to close its doors. The Bank of California had a gold capital of $5,000,000. Upon this it probably erected, with the help of its deposits, an inverted pyramid of $'205000,000 at least. Then it proceeded to put out its money into all sorts of enterprises and specula­ tions, and carried its particular "crowd" to any extent the " crowd " exacted. A few weeks ago there began to be whis­ pers that tne " crowd" were short of money, and the speculations had turned out badly. That went on till one day the depositors took it in their heads to ask for their money. Then it came out that the Bank of California had only $1,400,- 000 of gold in its vaults as a foundation fo| the inverted pyramid of $20,000,000, I& 'perfeot accordance with the laws of nature, the pyramid toppled over, and there was a general smashing of things 'round abo\it. The plain and direct an­ swer, therefore, whenever an inflationist alleges that the bank failed because of specie, is tliat, on the contrary, it failed because it had not the specie wliich it professed to have, which it ought to liiive had, and which it would have had if it had been legitmately managed. It was not gold, but the absence of gold, that brought on this last financial disaster.--- Chicago Tribune. Jefferson and Jackson on the Currency. Tliat Democratic soldier and Presi­ dent, Andrew Jackson, was a thorough believer in solid money, and a life-long enemy to every scheme for floating irre­ deemable paper or depreciated currency in place of precious metals. Let us quote from Jackson's annual message to Congress in 183C, in which he lays down the following sound principles : " It is apparent from the whole context of the Constitution, as well as the history of the times which gave birth to it, that it was the purpose of the Convention to establish a cur­ rency consisting of the precious metals. These, from their peculiar properties, wliich rendered them the standard of value in all other coun­ tries, were adopted in this, as well to establish its commercial standard in reference to foreign countries by a permanent rule, as to exclude the use of a mutual medium of exchange, such as of certain agricultural commodities, recog­ nized by the statutes of some States as a ten­ der for debts, or the still more pernicious ex­ pedient of a paper currency. " Variableness must ever be the characteris­ tic of which the precious metals are uot the chief ingredient, or which can be expanded or contracted without regard to the principles Uiat regulate the value of those metals as a stand­ ard in the general trade of the world. •'The progress of expansion, or rather of a depreciation of the currency by excessive bank issues, is always attended by a loss to the la­ boring classes. " When, by the depreciation in oonseqaence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices !>eoome exorbitant, it is found ti^at the whole effect of adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices. * * * * * The paper system being founded on public contidonoe, and having of itself no intrinsic value, it is liable to great and sudden fluctuations, thereby rendering prop­ erty insecure and the wages of labor unsteady and uncertain." In another message to Congress, Pres­ ident Jackson declared against the great tax which our paper system has so long collected from the earnings of labor. He advocated the suppression of all bank- bills below ten or twenty dollars, declar­ ing that it was apparent that gold and silver would then soon take their places, and become the principal circulating me­ dium among the people. Again, in Jackson's farewell address to the people of the United States, he uttered the fol­ lowing sagacious words, which have the most direct and pertinent application to the present financial situation of the country: " The Constitution of the United States un­ questionably intended to secure to the people a circulating medium of gold and silver. The establishment of a national bank by Congress, with the privilege of issuing paper money re­ ceivable in payment of public dues, and the unfortunate course of legislation in the several States upon the same subject, drove from gen­ eral circulation the constitutional currency and substituted one of paper in its place. •• It was not easy for men engaged in the ordinary pursuits of business, whose (attention had not been particularly drawn to the subject, to foresee all the consoqnences of a currency exclusively of paper, and we ought not, on that, account, to be surprised at the faoility with which laws were obtained to carry into effect the paper system. Honest, and even enlightened men, are sometimes misled by the specious and plausible statements of the d«v- signing. But experience has now proved' the mischief and dangers of paper currency, and it rests with von to oetermin** wb^tlier the remedy shall be applied." ~ Thomas Jefferson was a life-long adver­ sary of an inconvertible paper currency. When the National Bank discussion was rife throughout the country in 1813, this patriarch of the Democracy thus wrote : "Excepting England and her copyist, the United States, there is not a nation existing, I believe, which tolerates a paptr circulation. The experiment is going on, however, des­ perately in England, pretty boldly with us, and at the end of the chaptor we shall see which opinion experience approves, for I be­ lieve it is to be one of those cases where mer­ cantile clamor will bear down reason until it is corrected by ruin. * * * And it is for this petty addition to the capital of the nation, this minimum of 81 added to or 133% per OOfit-, that WA arc to j •»r ii« d sil­ ver medium, its intrinsic solidity, its universal value, and its saving powers in times of war, SVIID tO substitute for it paper, with all its train of evils, moral, political and physicial, which 1 will not pretend' to enumerate.--Cincinnati Coinnurcial. A Modest Showing. Democracy could do for the na­ tion, can be best known by what it has done for a single city. It has had, through a long series of years, undis­ puted control of the city of New York. What has it accomplished there, to rec­ ommend it, as worthy of national con­ trol ? Let us see what its claims amount to. It has plundered the people, through dishonest officials, so tliat the amount o? its stealings, would make a respectable national debt. Within five years, not less than $20,000,000 have been stolen-- not wasted by worthless expenditures-- but actually stolen from the city treasury by official thieves, holding leading posi­ tions in the Democratic party, and kept in them, through the influence of that corrupt organization. The pending suit against Tweed, for the recovery of $6,- 000,000, stolen from the city, is but one item in the long chapter of plunder. It costs, according to the Comptroller's statement, about $35,000,000, to pay the yearly expenses of the city. This is about equal to a tax of $35 on every man. woman and child in the city. The same Democratic economy, prac­ ticed in national affairs, would cost the people, for the support of the govern­ ment, the snug little sum of $1,400,- 000,000 yearly. Yet this is the party that asks for t^he control of the national finances. The city of New York has a debt, amounting, in the aggregate, to $160,- 000,000. This would be equal to about $160 for each man, woman, and child in the metropolis. Apply tliis ratio to the nation, of 40,000,000, and we have, for a national debt, the trifling sum of $6,400,000,000, the interest on which, at six per cent., would be #384,000,000, or about #100,000,000 for interest alone, more than the entire yearly expenditures of the national government, at the pres­ ent time. Why are these points over­ looked by the speakers and press of modern Democracy? Why deal in charges against the Republican party i Why not occasionally change the subject to the beauties of the Democratic sys­ tem, as enjoyed by the citizens of New York? If Democracy has any claims upon the people, where are they ? From what city, or county, or State do they come J/ It has none! The city of New Yorfa^is but a specimen of its control in othejr places. Its restoration to power would bankrupt thoefmtion. Its dishon- emy and extravagance would lead to re- ^Midiation, .and this, to national ruin.-- The Itepumic. The Georgia Scare. Some weeks ago the Democratic press of the South was full of fearful stories of negro insurections in Georgia. It was announced by them that a war of races had been precipitated, but they never explained how, nor did they trouble themselves to name the cause. No ac­ count was given by which the people of the North could understand the situa­ tion. We have read our Southern ex­ changes through, and studied them as closely as possible, in hope of finding some explanation of the affair, but so far in vain. The only actual fact learned was that the "negro insurrection" was a flash-in-the-pan, a fizzle, a non-occur­ rence. The clearest statement of fact we have yet seen is in the Baltimore Amer­ ican, whose account, condensed, is as follows. On the 20tli of the month the colored men of Burke county were to have held a meeting at Waynes- bero to discuss a new registry law which discriminated against them, in their opinion. The meeting was to have been addressed by one Morris, a politi­ cian incumbered with a military title. Just before the day of meeting somebody claimed to have found a letter, addressed to Captain Walters, signed by " Gen." Morris, ai\d "Gen." Rivers, a South Carolina politician, giving directions for a general massacre of white men and ugly women. The telegraph spread the news all over the State, and the White League demanded that they be led against the murderers. The Governor' j ordered them to remain at home, and he | himself went down to the scene of hos­ tilities. have been unable to detect the gross fal- , lacy involved in the claim tliat the more these notes are multiplied the richer the people will become. Yet here was an audience, most of whom had probably enjoyed the advantages of an American public school education, listening with ? apparent satisfaction to a man who, by the sheer abuse of language, concealed from them the fact that he was promis­ ing them abundant employment and high wages as the necessary result of a permanently established condition of * national bankruptcy! If the Democratic ; populace of Ohio represents the class which is destined to control the affairs of the country, then it is high time that we were giving some serious thought to the education of our masters.--New York T i m e s . , , T f J : Democratic Bale in Ohio. C : We are having the full beneffc of" Democratic administration in Ohio. We have a small rednetlon of the State levy, accomplished by leaving the State debt I due on the 31st of December next unpro- * di­ vided for, leaving the Central Lunatic Asylum half provided for, and leaving the sinking fund not reimbursed for a K r transfer winch saved $50,000 in interest ' - to the State. We have seen the manage- O ,*v ment of the Central Lunatic Asylum building fund taken out of the hands of an unpaid board of reputable Trustee?^ and put into the hands of an expensm* salaried commission, with the work de- >• layed from inadequate appropriations • and inefficient management. We have a Democratic Superintendent of the Sol­ diers' Orphans' Home Convicted of lewd practices and permitted to resign, after a short administration which largely in­ creased the running expenses of the in­ stitution. We have seen an attempt to oust the Superintendent of the Reform Farm, and put in a partisan successor, before his term expired. We have seen the Ohio Penitentiary demoralized in discipline and its net proceeds reduced to nothing, while the number of convicts has been larger than at any previous period in its history, and the proceeds should have been correspondingly in­ creased. We have seen the Superin­ tendent of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum secretly examined on charges similar to those against the Su­ perintendent of the Soldiers' Or­ phans' Home, the reporters for the press excluded, the witnesses discharged for testifying, and the Super­ intendent "allowed to resign." We have, observed the ruling priee of $100 a head lor a Democratic Reform Legisla­ ture, and the suppression of a material part of the record of -an investigation, under a resolution of the body impli­ cated. We have seen a Democratic Governor unable to sign his own name, and carrying on the executive functions by means of a stamp signature in the hands or subordinates. We have seen the only creditable performance of pub­ lic duty in institutions still under the ad­ ministration of officials appointed under Republican control. We have seen the Democratic party rent into factions, and its platform the laughing stock of Demo­ crats and Republicans alike, everywhere outside the State. We have seen a senile candidate for Governor eat hia own forty years' record in the vain hope of gaining votes on what is declared by the National Democratic organ to be " an absurd and preposterous platform.'*. We have seen the brains of the partyJ| even in Ohio, opposing the platform andP denouncing it, or preserving a grim si­ lence toward it. We have; against all this, nearly twenty years of Republican administration, without a pretense on the part of its bitterest enemies of mal­ feasance or misfeasance in any depart­ ment--nay, more, with the enforced cer­ tificate of Gov. Allen tliat the Demo­ cratic Executive has been unable to find any evidence of fraud or misconduct in office on the part of any Republican State official--Ohio State Journal. Only Eight Killed. A special dispatch to the Yicksburg Herald mentions the fact that a negro and a white man got to quarreling at Newliope Church, Miss., "about drum- beating," and the result was that "eight negroes were killed and several wound­ ed." Only that, and nothing more; mere bagatelle, the Southern press agent thinks; what importance is eight; '4 niggers," more or less ? The Southern whites have no hard feelings whatever toward their Colored brethren--none at all. They are, in fact, the "negro's best friend." It only happens, by a singular coincidence, that when any petty disturbance takes place in tliat region, eight or ten negroes get in the way and are slaughtered. By an equally singular mystery, the returns never make anv mention of casualties to white men in these affrays, although the whites always play a very active part in them. Now there are brawls and fights, and even riots, in the North from time to time. Sometimes a man is killed, and frequently "several" are wounded ; but we never hear of such slaughter as this --"eight killed and several wounded." And why is it that every little while we hear of five, ten, twenty, one hundred negroes murdered at once upon some slight provocation in different parts of the South? Such elaborate wholesale slaughter can only result from deep- His approacli"struck"terror to I seated animosity on the part of the the blacks, who immediately abandoned j whites toward the colored people, and their preparations for a massacre and | upon the first pretext it breaks out and fled. A large number of ringleaders w«re arrested on suspicion; and still more escaped. The white men and ugly women were not massacred. The meet­ ing to discuss the Registry law did not' come off.--Chicago Tribune. Dirty Demagogism. A more perfect sample of the lowest type of demagogism known to contempo­ rary politics could hardly be desired than in the brief outline of the speech delivered by Gen. Cary, at Portsmouth, Ohio, last night. Whatever may be said about the moral tone of an audience which could listen with approval to such an harangue, there must be something grossly defective in the intellectual training of the people who could fail to perceive its preposterous absurdity. If, instead of using the term greenbacks, the speaker had referred to the dishon- gluts itself upon its victims. A ®ock-and-bull story about a " negro plot" in Georgia was sufficient evidence for throwing a couple of hundred black men in jail without trial; in Mississippi eight negroes are actually killed in a petty brawl, and probably that is the last we shall hear of it. "Only eight killed." That is hardly worth a Coro­ ner'" inquest. Only eight murders! Why, the " ruling class" is getting tome and merciful. Or is it only " *' " --Buffalo Express. TALE OF A BITO.--A little wild bird flew into the great diuiug hall of the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, and could neither find its way out nor be lured to safety by the kindly endeavors of the servants, though the entrances and the lower part of the windows were nearly always open. The heavy uphols- S the speaker nail reierreu to ine cusnon- neariy aiwiyo ""-"'J ; ored demand notes of the government, | tery of the upper half of the windows < „ whose value depends, first, on the pros-! prevented its only chance of escape, so »> :y pect of their being one day paid, ] after fluttering bewildered among the , . anil second, on the fact that forest of chandeliers for six davs, guesta t they have been forced into circu- all the time fensting at the tables below, ^ lalion -as the equivalent of mbney, it atlmgth died of BtevaftM* itf very few of auditors would I picked up on the floor.