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f : x$-'f JRtgenrn fltaindealfr. 3. YAN 8LT13S, PTNUSHIAU oHENET, ILLINOM •w- 60SSIP OF THE DAT. WHEN Andrew Johnson was Governor of Tennessee, an ex-blacksmith was Chief- •Justice of the Supreme Court, and the •Governor with his own hands marl* a vest 4ov the Chief-Justice, while the Chief- •<$ustice went to a forge and made a shovel •ad tongues to present to the Governor. • i, A STNGinuB affliction has befallen the .'grocery keepers of Brownsville, Texas, ©warms of beetr infest their stores, sting­ ing the customers and driving them away. A perpetual war is being waged Upon the sugar-seekers, but so far new Vomers arrive faster than they can be killed off, and every grocery in Browns­ ville has been transformed into a smoke 'House . ; . . r , ; . v; A scan who narrowly escaped drown- ing in the recent floods revenges himself * J>y perpetrating tins parody on our school­ boy calendar ditty : "Dirty days liathSeptember, , •< April, June and November, And from February until May ,Th« rain it raineth every day; 11 the rest have thirty-one, '« With scarce a single gleam of son! And if any Bhould have thirty-two, They'd be dull and dirty too." THE editor of the Ogden (Utah) Free­ man has accomplished more in the last six months than usually falls tq,the lot of even the hardest-worked of uieprofes- flian, judging from the following extract ftdkn that journal: " Be it recorded as "part of the history of Utah, that a Vir- . ginia bom and bred lady came into Utah u&acquainted with a single soul, and, within a period of six months, organized, established, and conducted the Ogden Freeman, took charge of two infant sons, and gave birth to a third." AN amusing episode recently occurred ia the. British Parliament. Dr. Kenealy, who is a firm believer in the validity of fiie Tichborne claimant, protested against the leniency of Col. Baker's sentence, as Tichborne was sentenced to hard labor, wlWle Baker WRS only imprisoned with­ out hard labor, which Kenealy con? aidered no punishment at all. At this juncture a member arose and mentioned the unpleasant fact that when the learned doctor was found guilty of brutal treat­ ment of his illegitimate son and sent to prison for a month, he thought the pen- , alty severe enough, though there was no hard labor in it. The Doctor st&mmer- ingly replied that he thought this refer­ ence to his past history unnecessary and ^jjngentlemanly,. and then quietly sub­ sided. OTHER countries beside America, it Seems, are subject to grasshopper plagues. A Roumanian correspondent of the London Times, writing from Galatz on Aug. 1, describes a swarm of locusts which he had witnessed that day, that Was from three to four miles wide, fifteen miles long, and was about five lours in passing. The correspondent says : " All over this part of the country lately all the horses in the village have been kept saddled, and the instant the locusts are reported in the neighborhood ajl the people turn out and gallop after them, and raise an awful din with pots -afid pans, and BO on, to prevent them from alighting; Jf once the flock , alight it is all up; but by this means tliey manage to frighten them from alighting, and cause them to move on •elsewhere." This a remedy for grass­ hoppers our Western farmers have never tried. RECENTLY, two religious exhorters were arrested in Lawrence, for beating a man. In defense they stated that the Lord had revealed to them an eanitest desire that this particular man should be converted, and that having 'ysed all the earnest persuasiveness with­ in their power upon the obdurate sinner without effect, they thought themselves justified in trying the experiment of cor­ poral punishment for the salvation of the man's soul. The Judge disagreed with them in the justice of their proceeding, Mid sent them to jail. And now another •egotistical interpreter of holy writ, Tjimed Rynders, a pastor in Havana, 111., rifefused to take the oath when produced in oourt as a witness, it being in conflict with his belief of the express instruc­ tions of scripture, and the Judge sent him to the County Jail for thirty days for contempt of court These three fa­ natics undoubtedly consider themselves jaartyrs in the cause of the Master. THE long-debted project of connecting Great Britain with the continent by means & ssilroad, tunnel beneath the channel assumes definite shape. This ̂mil be the greatest engineering task ever iindertaken in the world. But the na­ tions that joined the two shores of the Atlantic with an electrie cable; that cut •* ship canal through the isthmus of Suez, Kpd penetrated through the towering ^JIps, are committed to its mnwimmfltinn, «nd the work will go forward, doubtless, to ultimate completion. The soundings J&realy ma le give tke greatest depth of water in the channel as 185 feet. Inves­ tigation on either shore reveals a chalk formation hundreds of feet below thesur face, and formation doubtless ex­ tends beneath the intervening twenty miles of water. When the tunnel is ex­ cavated, however, it is quite likely many unlooked-for difficulties will oppose the engineers, but these frill only render their final triumph morecomplete. Be­ fore many years elapse, we may hope the ears of our English cousins will be greeted • with the exclamation of the railway con­ ductor, "All aboard for Paris!'* Hie completion of the work will doubtless increase to a aurpr|ping extent the al­ ready universal spirit for travel and change of scene, and greatly aid in has­ tening forward the happy day when the present lines of national difference and prejudice will be forever obliterated, and the human race become one family, in- dissolubly united in reaching forward to its highest earthly aim, that of - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Another great work is engaging the at­ tention of the inquiring and scientific minds of Europe. The project proposes to connect the vast desert of Sahara, in northwestern Africa, into an inland sea, upon whose shores busy cities usurp the place of the wild denizens of the jungle, and above the skeleton re­ mains of the soon-to-be-forgotten cara­ van the white wings of commerce whftll safely penetrate to the heart of this vast and comparatively unexplored region. Wild as this scheme may appear in its supposed general results, as a work of engineering it is trifling in comparison with the skill and labor necessary to the successful tunneling of the English chan­ nel, It has' long been known that he va^t bed of the Great DeSert of Sahara is below the surface of the Atlantic ocean, and that at one time it must have formed a portion of it. A bar forming on the present northwestern coast of Africa ages since finally cut off this portion from the parent ocean, and the inland sea was eventually dissipated in evapo­ ration exerted by the equatorial sun, leaving in its stead the vast and barren African desert. To restore the condition of things which prevailed in Africa so long ago, it is only necessary to make a canal of some six miles in length through the ancient .bar and present shore of the Atlantic, and the depression will be again filled up with the briny waters of the ocean, furnishing a means of transit by steamer and sail over a territory which has so long been a huge cemetery for adventurous traders and their faithful camels. MERE MENTION. M. THIERS is 78. JAY GOUUD is a Jew. VBBMONT owes $167,000. THE picnic season is over. THE fair season has begun. Alii quiet on the Rio fcrande. CHICAGO lias 18 grain elevators. OXEN sell for 01 a head in Egypt. Gov. TILDEN is worth $7,000,000. BEECHER won't lecture next winter. OCR Cardinal McCloskey is in Rome. PAUL BOYTON writes for the MA,GN,RIIIPG BAYARD TAYLOR is rusticating in New York. MRS. LINCOLN has recovered her poise. LADY FRANKLIN never had a picture taken. THE Pope still suffers from rheuma­ tism. GARIBALDI likewise has pains in his joints. ^ THEY complain of excessive heat in the East. _ * • - "A P&MifeEbYAiftf: to triplets. . ^ . A NEW bedstead is made of polished brass rods. A CLEVELAND man advertises " wo­ men's shirts.-" • A SIX-FOOT alligator has been caught at Hannibal, Mo. CHICAGO handles 90,000,000 bushels of grain annually. y OPPRESSIVE taxation caused the Herze- govinian revolt. AN umbrella attachment for«plows has been patented. SARTORIS, Nellie and the baby have sailed for England. COL. D. R. ANTHONY, of Leavenworth, is on his pegs again. SOME numismatics can tell the age of a coin by tasting it. t A DEAD dog was buried in a fine rose­ wood coffin at Albany. THERE is a great crop of oranges *l»» year about Sacramento, REVIVALIST MOODY is staying with his mother in Massachusetts. SANKEY, Moody's evangelical partner is resting in Pittsburgh. KATE FIELD says Disraeli never gets eloquent till he gets mad. " CENTENNIALVILLE " is what they are calling Philadelphia now. SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, is said to haVe ordered a $7,000 hat rack. THE national tobacco crop is. twenty per cent, bigger than last year. PUTRID water from a roof tank gave a Son PwnnrtSfl-w.*, £ txic ijpuuiu 10 ex. • ^ G®ANDSOK of a former President is in jail in Kansas for robbing the maila. A ST. LOUIS man with a crazy wife chains her to % post in the cellar during her spells 6f raving. CUBAN insurgents, it seems, are torch- the planters by burning them out of houses and homes. THIS summer has been prolific of rains, potato-bugs, pull-back skirts, and de­ faulting bank cashiers. WERE every State as thickly peopled as Massaalnisetts we would have a poyu- lafcon oI over 600.000,000. W" ' ' ILLINOIS NEWS. NO HOUSES to relit in liusT Jackson­ ville.. 0 GSOUNS) has been broken lot a new Court House at Chicago. [ SHAWNEETO WN and Hardin county, to­ gether, own $3,000,000 in government bonds. s _ " . - . A MAN with the awful name of Xerxes X. Crum is to have charge of the public schools at Carfinville during the ensuing year. HARRIS CADOGAN, son of life proprie­ tor of the Quincy Herald, has been ap­ pointed a cadet at West Point by the Hon. Scott Wike. ALL lotteries, gift enterprises, and gambling of every kind, is to . be ex­ cluded from the grounds of the Macou­ pin County Fair Association. THE Clinton (De Witt County) Public suggests the name of the Hon. Milton Hay, of Springfield, as a Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1876. MAN* towns in the State are overrun with burglars, thieves and tramps, and in some of them vigilance committees are strongly talked of as the only remedy likely to cure the eviL HENBY JOHNSON, of Carrollton, editor of the Whitehall Register, has the Illinois department on the St. Louis Times, at a salary of $2,600 per annum, but will not relinquish his editorship of the lie- DB. C. B. RISING, a dentist well- known in this State', and, for twenty years the leading tooth-extractor of Rock- ford, died suddenly of typhoid fever on Thursday of last week. Mr. Rising was 48 years of age, and a member of the State Dental Association. . - --~ --Lgompliance, and to all the entreaties and AT a Grange picnic, at Murrayville, 1 Morgan county, a few days ago, a diffi­ culty occurred between two men named Creswell and Elliott. Fred. Lesch, a Marshal, stepped between the belliger­ ents to quell the fuss, and was fatally shot by Creswell. The excited crowd came near lynching Qreswell. He was arrested and held to bail in the sum of $5,000. A DI3EASB known as Spanish fever is creating liavoc among the herds of cattle lately imported into Logan county from Kansas and the Indian Territory. Pierce & Smith, Samuel Evans, A. Roths­ child and others have suffered severely. The disease is confined to this class, and is not contagious. Farmers are seriously alarmed, and are deterred from shipping more. MR. WYRON WIARD, a young gentle­ man of about 20 years of age, a resident of Waukegan, this State, has invented and just had patented a jeweler's eye­ glass, which is said by persons who claim Klux of Franklin county began at Cen- tralia, before tTnited States Commission­ er Car lee, on the 28tli ult. The question of jurisdiction was brought forward by 'the counsel for the prisoners, but the Commissioner decided that the court had jurisdiction, and the examination of wit­ nesses was begun. Mr. Maddox, in wh&se lane the fight took place, was the first witness, and was followed by two of the Ku-Klux who had turned State's evidence--Jacobs and Duckworth. The testimony showed that the night-riders were fully organized and bound together by the most solemn oaths; that their pur- pose was to "regulate" the neighbor­ hood according to their ideas of the fit­ ness of things; that in order to enforce their regulations and orders they were in the habit of whipping citizens, de­ stroying their property, and were pre­ pared to hang a few of those who had proved refractory. Aaron Neal, the re­ puted leader of the night-riders, was held in bonds of $2,000, two of his brothers becoming his bondsmen. THS Chicago Times of Friday says: "The tmited States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois is not as successful in ferreting oat the perpe­ trators of the recent Ku-Klux outrages in Jackson and Williamson counties as he hoped he would be. He recently vis­ ited Carbondale, in Jackson county, for the purpose of investigating the affair, but all witnesses summoned refused to testify for the alleged reason that their lives would thereby be placed in jeop­ ardy. The Attorney was therefore com­ pelled to give up the attempt, and at once proceeded to Carterville in the hope of meeting better success there. The Court Commissioner, to whom he applied to summon witnesses, at once refused ommands of the Attorney turned a deaf ear. The Attorney applied to Judge Treat, at Springfield, for the appoint* ment of a new Commissioner, but Judge Treat refused to remove the recalcitrant Commissioner, as he holds that (the Ku- Klux law, under which the Attorney was endeavoring to proceed, was intended only for the protection of negroes, and that white men liave no rights under it that the courts are bound to respect. At last accounts, the Attorney was engaged in a search for a Court Commissioner who will conduct the examination, and witnesses who will tell what they know about the lawless acts of the Ktt-Klux.' The Hamiltons--An Unfortunate Family " Knickerbocker " writes to the Cin­ cinnati Gazette from New York: This family was shadowed by paternal great­ ness, which is always injurious, and is sometimes crushing. The oliildren might, under other conditions, have reached eminence, but the best that can be said is that they maintained respectability. to know .something about it, improvement upon the old style. Mr. - - - * Wiard has already been offered quite a large sum for his patent, bufc» as yet he has not disposed of it. Hope there is a fortune in store for him. THE new officials of the Gilman, Clin­ ton and Springfield railroad have sent a party over the line of road to inspect its condition and to take an inventory of its tangible property. Ihe cash balance in the hands of ex-Receiver Hinckley of the road, amounts in a round sum to $73,000, which will be paid as soon as he is satisfied it will not conflict with his obligation on the bond filed by him when appointed receivers THE little village of Roachtowii, St. Clafc cocraty, was the scc^c of a bloody tragedy, on Sunday evening. As Fred. Kifer, the engineer of a mill in the place, and George Siefried, a farmer living in the vicinity, were testing their skill in shooting at a mark with a shot-gun, an altercation arose between them as to which had made the best shot. Siefried advanced toward Kifer to strike him. Kifer warned him off, but, he continued to advance in a menacing manner, and Kifer lodged a charge of shot in his ab­ domen, killing him almost instantly. Kifer went to Belleville and gave him­ self up to the authorities, who lodged him in jail. ADOLPH DENTZ, a Justice of the Peace for Buckinn Precinct, Bear Alton, and owner of the flouring-mill at that place, oommitted suicide, last week, by shooting the top of his head completelv off. The cause of the rash act is un­ known, as Mr. Dentz was in fair finan­ cial circumstances. He was well edu­ cated, and understood several languages, and for a number of years had been a Justice of the Peace. He had a large number of friends in the vicinity, and was much esteemed. T ,.,.,,4.,,̂ - ; _ * 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. Brooks, Gilman; water elevator, J. Chandler, Barry; reading and writing desk, L. G. Fairbanks, Chicago; harrow, J. W. Hutchins, 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, TT- Sensen- baugh, Sharon; evaporating pan, J. M. Thumb, Metropolis City. THE examination of the captured Ku- was a quiet and retired man, who mar­ ried rich and had a fine place 011 the Hudson. He had held a position under government, and was a member of the bar of this city, but his chief labor was to collect and edit his father's produc­ tions. The senior Alexander Hamilton married a daughter of the patriotic Gen. Schuyler, who survived him a half cen­ tury. ^ He is buried in Trinity church­ yard, in this city, by the side of his eld­ est son, Philip, who likewise fell in a duel. This is the only instance 011 record where both father and son met this fate. Philip was a talented youth of 20, and had just graduated at Columbia College. One evening in October, 1842, he and a friend named Price insulted a young lawyer at the theater. The latter was of opposite politics, and, being of rural origin, was idieuled on this account. He returned tlic insult, and added thai he expected to hear from them. They were compelled by the laws of honor each to send him a cliallege, and he ac­ cepted both. Then the rural lawyer, whose name was Eacker, showed his nerve. The next Sunday both duels came off. Price had precedence. Five shots were exchanged, when the seconds interfered, and honor was said to be vin­ dicated. Then came Hamilton's turn, and at the first fire he fell mortally wounded. HeVas borne home, and died the next day. Within two years his father was also brought back mortally wounded by Aaron Burr. What a trial for a mother and a wife! But Eliza Schuyler was a woman of strong heart, and she endured this bitter agony. Eacker was then 24, and was not as hardened as Burr, who was twice his age. His conscience accused him of Philip.Hamilton's death, and he broke down in health and died six months be­ fore Burr and Hamilton met. His grave­ stone is still to be seen in St. Pahl's churchyard.. Such were some of the tragedies connected with the laws of honor, and recalled by the recent death of the second Alexander Hamilton. Living Beyond Their Means. A robin's nest was recently taken from a pear tree in the garden of W. F. Draper, in Andover, Mass., the material of which it was constructed having been selected with great taste. It includes a lady's collar with cambric center and lace edging, and several yards of lace two and four inches wide. The nest had evi­ dently been abandoned by the occupant, whose income,.-the Lawrence American suggests, was not sufficient to justify living in such style as would be required in such a costly residence. Republican Recruits. Some of the newspapers in the South are taking a wide range of subjects, and, looking abroad upon the world, they have discovered that there is ample room for the #fforts of all disposed to work in the right direction. The Norfolk Day Book urges many suggestions in regard to the duty of the leaders of the Repub­ lican party in Virginia. Among others, and with a view to recruit our strength, that jowmal «»y» • " Let us seek re­ cruits from the only source at ou* com­ mand, the whites j; and in order to do this, we must show them that the road to promotion is open to them in our ranks. There are thousands of the best whites in the South constrained from entering our party because the line of promotion is barred against them. Let us unbar it and invite them to enter. Without them we can have no success, and the positions, one after another, are passing from our control. What say you, fellow-Repuhlioans V* We believe that there are many good and earnest men in the South who de- "plore the existing contentions, and who are anxious to do all in their power to bring about a better state of things. They realize the vasf benefits which have already accrued from the reconstruction measures ; and they heartily desire the ascendancy of the Republican party,that those measures may have full scope to accomplish the good designed. These men appreciate the new condition of af­ fairs, recognize the blessings of free la­ bor, and, on principle, regard the col­ ored citizen as entitled to the rights and privileges secured to him under the Con­ stitution. If they took part in the re- bellion, they have accepted the situa­ tion ; or, if they are citizens who have gone to _ the South from other States, their lot is cast there, and they wish to see the South prosperous and happy. Citizens of this character cannot help being in sympathy with Republican principles and Republican effort. More­ over, they know that no other principles are suited to restore the South. The Democratic party is responsible for se­ cession, and for the war which followed it. The party is, therefore, incapaci­ tated by the eternal fitness of things to build up what it was willing should be destroyed. And did the meu who in­ fluenced opinion in the South compre­ hend their duty, they could not fail to re­ mark how unfitted the Democratic party is to help them. The Republican party being the only party that can lift the South into the po­ sition it should occupy in the Union, and which has conferred blessings and benefits unknown to that people before, desires to have them cut loose from the past and rise to a higher plane of civili­ zation. The Republican party opens its arms in welcome to all men who are Willing to combine for the purpose of preventing the Democratic «>«"•'!.« fror»3 continuing to disturb and Injure the South. The poor whites, by education and elevation, have escaped the trammels of that party which oppressed while it used them. Others, either native or emigrant, understand that the aim of the Republican party is the welfare of •he country, and of the South, as a part of it. It does not matter much what has been the hindrance in former times; if they will now keep step with the party, it will rejoice. There is a great deal for them to do, and a height to which thev can rise by joining our ranks. Union £s strength; and in the union of sueii l^ea with us, no Iwrier cm prevent their reaching the object of their ambition. There is no element existing in the South which can interfere with their progress, either socially or politically. Let it be understood everywhere that the Repub­ lican party invites co-operation; and all who feel disposed to labor for a common dbject will share .in the common welfare. --The Jitpttblic. A First-Class Demagogue. When Gov. Allen, of Ohio, was a member of the United Statas Senate, some forty years ago, he was a good deal of a demagogue and at times rather noisy and obtrusive. But now, in his old age, after a long silence and retire­ ment from public life, he blooms as a first-class demagogue. He said, in the course of a spccch at P®rkersburg, West Virginia: "We will not believe without further evidence that forty millions of men, schooled from their infancy in les­ sons of freedom, will at the expiration of a single century bew themselves down to receive the yoke of remorseless bondage enforced upon them by a monied aris­ tocracy." The man who can utter such trumpery as this is the best man the Democrats of Ohio can bring out as their candidate for 'Governor. What forty millions of men schooled from their in­ fancy in the lessons of freedom may do at the expiration of a single century it would be hard to tell; but the chances are that very few of them would be alive to do anything. What forty millions of men the senile Governor was thinking of we cannot conceive. There are at pres ent only half that number in the United States, and not more than half of them can be said to have been schooled from their infancy in lessons of freedom. Then "the monied aristocracy" includes a pretty large number of the remainder, and they, of course, could not be ex­ pected to "bow themselves down to re­ ceive the yoke of remorseless bondage^ "If such a thing could happen," says Gov. Allien, "whathope could there be for the future ?" But such a thing can­ not lxappen, and there is 110 use in being unhappy about it.--The Independent. limited supply of paper money. BooMf would favor the blotting out of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, others would oppose it. Some would favor leg­ islation that would obstruct Northern en- tarprise--taking this course to xetaliate for past punishment--others would op­ pose this. Thus Democracy would bm split in numberless factions, and the re­ sult would be, unwise legislation, andji., weak administration of public affairs. " Anything to beat th» Enpnhliwin party," may do as a rallying crj, bat no party can advance the nAtkm s welfare on a platform so narrow and, iriflwh as this. Parties, to win puMfo rapport* must have woll-deflned principles to pre­ sent to the people. They must snow that they are influenced by a desire higher than that of revenge. The for­ tunes of a party amount to nothing with the people. "Hie fortunes of a nation are what they consider, and the party that meets their views and obtains their endorsement must first prove that it is influenced by the purest patriotism and lias within it the power to build up the national welfare. The Republican party can do this; the Democratic cannot. . • -- - • • ' , -• A Question of Yeracitjr. There is a question of veracity pend-~ ing between Senator Allen G. Tiiurzxum, of Ohio, and a correspondent of the Cleveland Leader, and it looks decidedly as though the correspondent had the bet- : ter of the dispute. A short time ago, it will be remembered, a letter was pub­ lished in the newspapers purporting to give the substance of a conversation be­ tween Mr. Thurman and Mr. Cook, of Cincinnati, at the West House in Put­ in Bay. The letter was from an occa­ sional correspondent of the Leader, and declared that the conversation was given * as it occurred, the writer being within hearing, and, in fact, compelled to hear or move his seat. In this conversation Mr. Thurman expressed himself very frankly, and, among other things, pre­ dicted the defeat of the Democratic party in Ohio in the coming election. He was particularly severe upon the "priests," and also upon Sam Oarey, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, who was characterized a poli­ tical adventurer and unscrupulous dema­ gogue. In regard to to the " priests,'* Mr. Thurman is said to have used the following language: The d--d priests have overdone the tliiug by sticking their noses iuto our polities, and they deserve to be beaten to teach them their plaoe. Their arrogance is unsufferable. Those familiar with the manner of our " Nephew," A'len, will see in the above strong evidence of genuineness. Mr. Thurman is given to similar blunt ex­ pressions, and, in fact, is the bear of the Senate Chamber. • ^Senator Thurman is also reported to have said that he never heard Mr. Cary spoafc more than fcwicc. and save the cir­ cumstances. Once he heard him deliver a|temperance lecture at Columbus, and once he spokQ from the same stand with Carey at Zanesville. If these are the facts--and Mr. Carey well knows whether they are or not--they will be additional proof that the correspondent wrote the truth. The following correspondence has passed between Mr. Thurman and some of his anxious friends on the sub­ ject: CoLtftfefel, Aug. id, 18%. To the Hon. Allen G. Thurman, Put-in Bay House: what truth is there in the reported conven*- tiou between yoa tfctd Theodore Cook, published in to-day's Commercial ? We believe it basely false. Answer immediately for publication. JOHN G. THOMPSON (Chairman), JACOB REIN-HARD, M. A. DAU(«IERTX, . &T K. DONOVIN, AMOS LAYMAN. [REPLY]. FBT-IW BAY, ANG. 19, 1878. ' 4 To the Hon John G. Thompson, Columbus, Ohio: * I The publication is a tissue of falsehoods. A. G. THERMAL, So far we have seen nothing exoept this simple denial, and in response to that the correspondent sends his affidavit, in which he swears that the report i0 true. He also says--which is probably very true--that he has no personal mo­ tive for misrepresenting Mr. Thurman* while the latter has much reason for de­ nying the truth of the report. The fact that Thurman is known to despise Carey, that the election in Ohio is now weil- nigli conceded to tlie Republicans, and jthat therefore Thuriimn would be likely to speak of it in his conversation, as well as the other points we have mentioned, . make it very probable tliat the letter was correct. If it really lies, suppose Mr. Cook comes out and makes an affidavit to that effect! He certainly knows whether the letter was true or false, and here is a chance to vindicate assaulted greatness which should not 6e lost.--In­ ter-Ocean. HISXOKT OP A WESTERN POSTOFFICE--- While riding up Reese river valley mth Stubs last week he pointed his finger across the valley and said : " Over yon der is Washington ; it's on this mai route. There used to be a postoffice oyer there ; but the Postmaster got killed, and they burled him with his clothes on. The key of the postoffice was in his breeehes pocket, and when they buried him they buried the whole postoffice, and it's a dead-letter office (iVre».) Jtewiil*, A Party Without a Polity* The Democratic party is a unit on one proposition, " Anything to beat the Re­ publican party." This accomplished, it will split on every prominent question. It is made up of ex-Republicans, ex-Lib­ erals, ex-Whigs, ex-Abolitionists, and is controlled by ex-Rebels. It is safe to ti™-t once invested with the control of the nation, a party made up of such discordant elements would have no set­ tled policy on which its followers could unite. Some would favor repudiation, others, good faith in maintaining the pub­ lic credit Some would favor the pay­ ment of Southern State debts, others would oppose it as unwise. Some would favor the compensation of loyal masters for the loss of their slaves, others would oppose this as opening a door for nation­ al bankruptcy. With the Southern win* of Democracy , the treason of the past would be glorified. The Northern wing would contain a few Democrats, bold enough to protest against it. Some wapdd favor hard mmer oihwrs an The Siamese Twins Outdoie. This strange freak is in the shape of a double cliild; or, more strictly speakiug, two children joined together. The curi­ osity is the offspring of colored parents, Crittenden and Sarah Jones, of Beech Island, S. C. One of the children is a perfectly developed female, large for her age, and with every appearance of health. The other, who is a male, is but imper­ fectly developed, has only the rudiments of limbs, and does not eat, depending for sustenance Upon its sister. These two beings are joined together by a wide band, in the center of which one of the lungs of these stiange creatures seems to be located. Touch the male and the female will shrink ; pinch it and she will cry. Reverse the operation, and still it is the female who manifests sensibility. The head of the female is small and mis­ shapen, the ears presenting more the apt- pea ro.nce of those of an animal than a human being. The pulsations of the heart and the act of respiration can be plainly per ce ived in the ligament join­ ing the bodies. This ligament, if auoh y ri jvm bf» |s ioined to the girl at the end of the breast bone, and to the male lower down. It is broad and thick, covered with skin like the rest of the body. Whether there are two distiuctrve . sets of vital organs, or whether both are dependent upon oue, has not yet been determined. The latter opinion seems to prevail, however. It is apparent, at any rate, that the male receives nourish­ ment through its companion* A watt- known physician of t| the twins yesterday them to be the nwaSI ;Si phenomenon of the kind Hi the world. The mother and father of the cWna are strong and healthy.--»Shu«& Octroi*im