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« v.*- »V - 'z.t. 1.4 Lm**. ' • I f . Jlflr^cnrg flniitdcaler. J. Y1N8LYKE, PCTLIJOTIEB. McHENRT, ILLINOIS. ¥ GOSSIP OF THE lUi. T® daughter of Bismarck, the cable •announoes, has been betrothed to Count Wendlzuenlarberge. Heavens! What A name t ' >• M Onb of the *rftni Jfaon of the Indian contracts at Wash- vington is a Mr. Brevier, and Prof. lUftirrh |ta desirous that he lie interrogated. I EXTENSIVE preparations had been made for a burglarious raid on Windsor ' Castlo "while Queen Victoria was absent in Scotland. The opportune discovery jtmd capture by the police of the bur- iglare' tools, which had been secreted a short. prevented the attempt. B. B. BOWERS, one of the members of the extensive and dangerous gang of IxJunterfeiterB recently broken up in the fkrath, -was a man of considerable influ­ ence in the section of Tennessee where lie resided, was foreman of the last grand-jury of Green county, tfos deacon •of a church and superintendent of a Sabbath school. THBBB are mutterings of a national Convention of dry goods dealers, to pro­ test against the present style of clinging ^dresses worn by women. The haber- . Slashers sigh for the good old days of lioops, when fifty to sixty yards of cloth ^ -- went into a skirt, and declare that these tf 4ight dresses are actually taking the L %read out of their mouths. §' THE recent sale of Lord Dunmore's Sberd of short-horns in Scotland shows "that the days of fancy prices have not yet gone by. Thirty-nine head of cattle were sold at an average price per head of ^3,361, the total amount realized being $131,115. • One bull, the *' Duke of Con- naught," brought $25,000. An agent of -the Vioeroy of Egypt paid $15,000 for one animal. ACCORDING to Prazer'» Magazine the • Available foroe which Great Britain has to commence a campaign abroad or to defend the shores of England, Ireland, and Scotland consists of only 5,250 cav- nlry, 30,272 infantry, and 120 guns, an army just about equal in numbers to one of the sixteen army corps into which the land forces of Germany axe at moment divided. THEY have a natural curiosity in •Greenburg, Ind. It is a small maple tree luxuriating in fiie Stone work near the top of the Court-House tower, which is 140 feet high. This verdant waif, doubt­ less sprang from a seed dropped by a passing bird. In spite of its precarious situation, the tree has reached a height of eight feet, and its trunk is two and -a half inches in diameter. Ts> extraordinary length to which a hobby will carry a. rider, so soon as it reaches the proportions of a wmnift is il­ lustrated in the case of a noted leader of woman's rights in Chicago. This woman writes a communication to the Tribune, of that city, seriously advocating a sys­ tematic slaughter of all children bom out •of wedlock. As the Tribune remarks, her proposition is one which, in the days of King Herod, m t have popularized fe /male suffrage; but Kiqg Herod is not now regardedas a model sovereign. He •died hard, too. THOMAS JOKES, alias John Wagster, a Tennessee white desperado, was to have been executed at New Madrid, Mo., last weelr, for the murder of an old colored <man named Frank Shannon, but a stay of proceedings was granted until the Supreme Court can pass upon the case. While the scaffold was being erected Wagster got drunk and uttered the most vile and profane language imaginable, "the workmen on the gallows coming in for a share of unseemly abuse. He is said to be a eon of a onoe prominent Baptist preacher. IT is now stated, on what seems to be good authority, that General Joseph E. Johnston has at last accepted the ap­ pointment of Commander-in-Chief of the Khedive's army--an offioe which the • General is said to have heretofore de­ clined. Probably this appointment is due to the suggestion of General Stone, who is in the Khedive's service, and other American officers in Egypt no doubt strongly recommended it The bonus of $100,000 for " outfit" and an annual sakry of $25,000 in gold are strong inducement* for any General. THE Postoffice Department at Wash­ ington lias just received a copy of the re­ port of the Chinese Postoffice for the year 1874. It isf but seven years since the postal system was established in China, but the progress is very prom­ ising, and arrangements have been made fcr a large extension of this system dur­ ing the coming yew. The mail routes in operation at,the cloBe of the year aggre­ gated 25,217 English miles, an increase during the year of 87 6-10 per cent.; number of Fostoffices 3,244, of which 1,̂ 44 had been established during the year. There were also 476 street letter- boxes, ot vhick dl bu| tew enetol daring (fee jtaft' ' * ̂ , *< ANOTHER shocking story of brutality in a lunatic asylum has been brought to light in New York. Nelson Magee, a commission merchant and a reputable citizen, was the oilier day released from the Kings County Asylum, upon the threat of legal proceedings by his wife. He was in just 50 days, having been thrown in under the temporary delirium of sun-stroke. To make a long story short, he was constantly reviled and abused, and saw other patients similarly treated. His wife was coupled with the most opprobrious epithets to his face, and, when he resented such treatment, he was put in a strait-jacket by brutal German keepers and pounded nearly to death, and threatened with death itself. All this might be the fiction of a lunatic, hu t tlM sears and welts upon Mr. Magee's body can hardly be a product of the im­ agination, A cxmiocrs dispute has arisen between the Indian Bureau and the Governor of Kansas, growing out of the killing of four Osage Indians by the Kansas militia during the summer of 1874. The Secre­ tary of the Interior claims $50,000 as in­ demnity for the death of his copper-col­ ored wards, and has made a formal de­ mand upon Gov. Osborne for that amount. The latter fails to view the matter in that light, and refuses very pointedly to pay the sum asked, or any other sum. He says that no reparation is due from the State of Kansas, and none need be expected ; that the Indians were in Kansas in violation of the posi­ tive orders of the government, and there­ fore their killing was justifiable and proper. He says it is the duty of the general government to keep the savages in their reservations, and that if it does not they must accept the consequences; that when they set their feet oh the sa­ cred soil of Kansas they will be treated as public enemies, and disposed of as rapidly and thoroughly as possible. " People living on the frontiers, and ex­ posed to Indian depredations," says the Governor, " cannot always be relied up­ on to institute judicial examination respecting the status of Indians found roaming in their midst. The complete separation of the white settlers and the Indians is the only reasonable guaranty of safety to either." HEBE MENTION. GSOBGIA owes $8,000,000. RICHARD H, DANA, SB., is 88. SMAXJJ POX rages in New York* CHARLES READE is bald-headed. JOHN MORHISSKY has black eyes. "fittranrsON iSgtudving natrnnnra• BISMARCK is again as well as ever. PIN-BACK pantaloons are talked of. CALIFORNIA, as a State, is 25 years old. MARK TWAES is writing another book. WM. M. EVARTS weighs 110 pounds. Bors of 15 are conscripted in Spain. THERE are 20,000 Grangers in Wiscon­ sin. BESSIE TURNER'S brother is a hack- man. A. T. STEWART'S income: $3,000,000 a year. ^CHARLESTON, S. C., has 54,000 inliab- JAMES GORDON BENNETT drives a six- in- hand. TICK'S lament: " Darling I »»» grow­ ing cold." THE London police force consists of 9,292 men. era 'Big-TENNYSON CALLS JOAOUIU bag poet." A SYRACUSE girl has not tasted food for a year. FRED DOUGLAS, JR. ; is a Washington policeman. VICTOR HUGO talks of attending the Centennial. THE Osage Indians have a $20,000 wheat crop. ROBERT LAIRD ConijER has gone htwk to Europe. NEW bonnets are made to be worn both ways. IT is proposed to Knight Capt. Webb, the swimmer. THE rot lias attacked the potato crop in California. SAN FRANCIBOO has 352 unmarried fe­ male teachers. NEWRURYPOBT has had but one fire in fifty-one years. HENRY WILSON, they say, is looking hearty as a buck. TOLEDO proposes to have a new cham­ ber of commerce. THE Sutro tunnel in Nevada has been bored 10,440 feet. CALIFORNIA has 280,000 children under fifteen years of age. J. B. FORD is the pnblisher of the New York Tribune, JOHN WESLEY is to have a monument at Savannah, Georgia. DR. MARY WALKER is practicing med­ icine at Salt Lake City. "M. QUAD'S" wife solicits subscrip­ tions for his new book. DIED recently, in New Hampshire, Thomas Card, aged 104<e GLOUCESTER, Mass., has a surplus of 896 females over males. EX-MARSHALL BAZAINE has gone into the real-estate business. GEN. SHERMAN'S ' ' Memoirs" have been published in London. THE British Government paid out last year $5,403,575 in pensions. GXN. MCCLELLAN and family are en route for home from Europe. ILLINOIS NEWS. OK* hundred and ten fairs in thift State this fall. BAST ST. Loins has organized a mili­ tary company. Ex-VICE-PRE8IDE»T COLFAX will lec­ ture in Aledo, October 8, on the subject, Abraham Lincoln." ONE hundred dollars is all the village of Sodoms, Champaign county, asks for corporate purposes for the next year. THE Bock Island Supervisors have as­ sessed a tax of $1 and $2 on every male and female dog in the county--fund thus raised to be used for town purposes, HORACE MTXER, proprietor of the Northwestern Hotel at Belvidere, and an old resident, committed suicide last week by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. THE Rev. Mr. Postlethwaite, for some time associated with Bishop Cheney in the pastorate of Christ Church, Chicago has resigned to accept a call to the Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore. , AT Staunton, Macoupin county, a few days ago, Mary Linton, fourteen years of age, dropped the coal-oil can on a hot stove, scattering the burning oil over heat clothes, and was burned to death. THE city of Carlinville. with a popula­ tion of 4,000, has levied a tax of $12,000 to meet all the expenses of the city next year. Jacksonville, with a population of about 12,000, has levied a tax of $111,- 000 to meet the expenses of the city for 1876. ABOUT 108 cars laden with tea arrived in Quincy recently by the Hannibal and St. Joe railroad from California. The tea was shipped directly from China, and is destined for England. The cars were taken over the Quincy, Alton and St. Louis, railroad, which road paid as back charges for the freight over $113,000. THE piece of sand bar known as Cobb's Island, near East St. Louis, has been the subject of more litigation than probably any other piece of territory in this coun­ try. Another case relating to it was tried in the Monroe County Circuit Court lately, in which Cobb came out victorious. This was a forcible entry against Mr. Miers, who had it leased for the purpose of getting sand for sale off the bar. Mr. Miers took an appeal to the Supreme Court. A MARINE event of an unusual charac­ ter occurred the other day in the arrival at the port of Chicago of the schooner Pamlico, owned by Mr. John Prindi- ville, of that city, which sailed from that harbor May 10,1874, for Liverpool, with a cargo of corn. Having made two un­ successful attempts to recross the At­ lantic, the little schooner tried it a third time, leaving Liverpool on the 9th of June, 1875, and arriving safely in Que­ bec after a voyage of 54 days. A SHOOTING affray occurred at Alton, .mJbmk aigktm a^aiocfi keeper named James Newman and a young man named James Smith were both shot. Smith entered the saloon of Newman with a companion and called for a drink, and either refused or was unable to pay for it, when an altercation ensued, when both drew their'revolvers and commenced firing. Both were shot in the breast, Newman receiving a slight and Smith what is considered a danger­ ous wound. AN old, gentleman named Nehemiah Houghton was run over by a train on the Rock Island railroad, while crossing Clark street, Chicago, the other day, and so badly injured that he died a short time afterward. This road leads out of the city on that street, and at the time of the accident the train was running at the rate of twenty miles an hour, while they are not allowed to exceed ten within the city limits. Upon ascertaining these facts the son of the deceased swore out a war­ rant for the arrest of the. engineer and conductor of the train on the charge of murder, and after examination they were held in bonds of $3,000 to answer te the charge of manslaughter. THE Quincy police last week made a descent upon a gang of counterfeiters, and arrested three men--Willis, Carter, and Payne--engaged in the manufacture of fifty-cent pieces. Carter had his shop near the business center of the city, and was at work when arrested. Hia dies and materials and a small quantity of the unfinished coin were captured with him. The other men were taken separately, and were arrested in consequence of hav­ ing been seen frequently in Carter's company. Payne has lately passed a number of counterfeit nickels, and when arrested had in his pockets some coun­ terfeit half-dollar pieces. On Carter's person was found several,, letters from his brother in Iowa, with whom he has been in communication concerning his counterfeiting operations. HASBY ON INFLATION. Peach Brandy. Hie quantity of peach brandy mann-. factured in Delaware, this season, will be immense. There are now innumer­ able distilleries in operation, and several more will be set up. The low price of fruit has disposed many growers to make who never did before, and some of the soberest are groaning that they have no stills to set up. They used to ii Peach brandy might be un­ wholesome, from the splitting open of the peach stones while the fruit was in the mash and the escape of the prussic acid m the kernels. In these days of benzine, however, a man with a well- lined tank and good hot coppers don't care for a little prussic acid, but takes his peach and honey and rolls ut> his eyes. ^ The Progress at "Confedrit X "-ntp" The Trouble that Mr. Perkins Started-. Present Status of the Great Idea in the Place Where It Is Being Tested. -. CONFEDRIT X ROADS,' J WiCH is IN THE STATE UV KENTUCKY, V Sept. 11, 1875. V I hev hed trouble enough with theun- enlitened people uv these Corners, for the past week, to neerly drive me mad. xUuCCu, - sliced hev bin in a lnmiatin asylum ere this, hed I not bin sustained and soothed by an onlimited faith in tho oorrectnis uv the doctrins uv the Ohio Dimocrisv, ez regards money. And feelin that I wuz assistin, in my humble way, in puttin them doctrins into prac- tis, I determined not to go mad, but to persevere even unto the end. But the perverse people are doin ther level best to drive me crazy, and I am not shoor that they won't succeed. I bought a pair uv horses uv on® of em for $8,000, and paid him in our own money. He thot he'd rather not tech it. "When will this be redeemed?" he askt. innocently. "Any time you want it," I replied. In watt" lie retorted. " In other notes onto the same bank," MSB X. "And how will you redeem them notes?" sea he, * , $ , "In jist the saufe way," sez 1, " Then all there is uv it," sez he, "yoo go on takin up one note by givin another, and all Uv em without interest nor notliin." " That's it eggsackly," sed I. " Too see, can't you, or are yoo an ijeat? that money means faith. Now, ef the proud finanshei institoosliin in wich I am the hed, ishoos its note, yoo must hev faith that it will pay, and so long ez you hev that faith, and everybody else hez that faith, so that they take it for money, yoo never want the money on it. So long ez money is taken, yoo don't want it re­ deemed, for it is good enuff, you see! Our money is made good by faith, and ez lo.g ez it is sustaned by faith it will go. When the notes yoo hev now wears out, come to us and we will redeem em with new ones. But everybody must hev faith. Can't you see it? Every­ body must hev faith! Faith in the ishoos uv this bank uv ourn is nessary to its success and stability. Faith in money is, ez it is in Religion, the sub­ stance of things hoped for, and the evi­ dence uv things not seen, only more so. Wait till I get 88,000 from the printin offis, and take em for yoor horses, and go yoor way. Hev faith." Perkins, that wuz the farmer's name, took the money and went his way, pon- derin ez he went. He walked down to Bascom's with deep lines uv thot onto his face, wich resolved itself into a ex- preshun uv stern determinashen ez he entered the door. " Km yoo sell me a barl uv whisky to­ day--ft entire barl? " said he. "Certinly," sed "G. W., smilingly, " Certinly, Mr. Perkins, It's only worth $40 a gallon, or $1,680 per barl this mornin'. "I'll take a barl," sed Perkins. "All rite," wuz G. W.'s response. "I'd ez soon sell a barl to wuntz ez by the single drink." • So G. W. and his wife and his oldest son, Jefferson Davis, rdlled a batl up into Perkinses wagon, and Perkins remarkt that he wanted to pay for that likker on the spot. Basconi smiled pleasantly. There wnSs nothin so pleasant, i'erkius continyood, ez payin for things wen yoo get em, ez it saved bookkeepin and vex- ashus troubles uv all kinds. " Give me pen, ink, and paper, G. W.," sed this outrageous Perkins. Nonplushed, Bascom did so mechan­ ically, and Perkins ran his tongue out, ez people do in the Corners when they attempt writin, and after thirty rninits uv intense labor, with swet a rollin from his brow fearful, he handed Bascom the fol- ierin dokeyment: CONFEDRIT X ROADS, Sept 1, 1875.--I Eromise to pay G. W. Basoom sixteen undred and eighty dollars. JEHIAL PERKINS. " Wats this ?" askt the astonished Bascom, with an exprethen uv intense disgust usurpin the place uv the smile. " Pay for that likker, "replied Perkins, calm ez a Joon mornin. " But this aint pay--its your promise to pay, and you amt got time nor place fixed for payment--Vera ain't got no in­ terest exprest, nor notliin. Wen do you perpose to pay it ? " "Never, G. W., never. Under the' noo dispensashen, promises to pay is money. All you want is faith. So long ez you bleeve that that paper is money, wat do yoo want uv money ? With faith enuff that paper is money. I hev bin figgerin this matter out in my inteliek ever sence I hev bin takin yoor bank money: It's all the same. 'Ef I hev faith in yoor money yoo must hev faith in mine. When this note wears out, come to me and I will write yoo a new one. And don't keep it too long--I sliel take pleasure in writen you notes often, so that they will alluz be new and pleas­ ant to look at. How pleasant it is, Bas­ com, to pay ez yoo go! How much beter I feel to pay on the nale, and how much better yoo must feel to hev yoor cash wen yoo deliver yoor goods." And Perkins drove off with the likker, lite-hearted, leavin Bascom dumbfound­ ed in the door uv the groseiy, gaspin with astonishment and blind with rage. Perkins didn't stop with a barl uv lik­ ker. He bot a pare uy pegged boots for $80, and pade for em in the same way, and a kag uy nails, and two soots uv close, and calico dresses for his wife and dawters, and a box uv paper collars and a necktie, things he hed never dreemed uv hevin before, and he got so eggsdted at his success in finuuseerin that, he went home drunk ez a bil<:d owl. But the misery uv all this is, every cuss within 5 miles, Recin Perkinses suc­ cess, is doin the same thing, and an im­ mense volyoom uv what I may call indi- vijjle currency is afloat. And they ia seriously thretnin to vote to hev the cor- prasht-n take the stuff for taxes! The idee uv takin money for taxes that aint printed, and that liez<-nt got no Presi­ dent and Oasheer and Board uv Direk- ters! There is such a thing ez carryin this thing too far. But prosperity continoos her stimula- tin ram. We ishood thirty thousand d' illars uv our money last week, and the beneiisi le efleck is visible. . Wheat is now $12 a busht-1, licker $1 a Tf-ink plain, and $1.50 them eztake sugar in theirn, pegged boots is ̂ 80, cotton sox $4, and town lots--well, any price that one chooses to ask for em. The (lutein uv cellars is going on satisfactorily, ez is enything else that we kin pay for in our own money. But I tremble with appre­ hensions. Wliot will happen when they come to want the lumber, and nales and glass, and other things which hev to come from Louisville I That's the goat that hant8me. PETROLEUM V. NASRT, President uv the Onlimited Trust and Confidence Company. P- S.--The most, wonderfnl efEack uv infiashun wuz showed this mornin on Deekin Pogram. The old saint made his appearance at-the bank in a noo soot uv cloze wich Mirandy, his dawter, got for him. The old man tried to keep up under it, but fiueiiy broke down. He refoozed to stay in his seet unless we'd take off the coat, pull off his boots, and " them d--d stoclans," ez he expressed it, and drip some tobaccer joose over his buzum. He swore that he nitlier resine his posishen than to wear boots and stockins in the summer time, and ez for paper collars he'd wear none uv em. He wood hev gone insane ef we hedn't stript him and got him back to his nor- mel style. Wat a difference there is in men? Now I took to stockins when I got to be President of this bank ez naterally ez tho I lied alluz wore em. But I hey moved in better society than the Deekin hez. He is trooly a child,uv mn"-naoher. *** Hie Mississippi Murders. The dispatches sent by the Chairman j of the Democratic State Committee of Mississippi to the effect that there are no disturbances, and that life and prop­ erty are secure, consequently that there is no necessity for calling upon the mil­ itary forces of the United States, are now shown to be false. All is not quiet in Mississippi. There are disturbances there. Life and property are not secure, auu there is a necessity lor interference, both of a military and judicial sort, in order to protect innocent men who are being murdered. It now appears that since the Vicksburg ruffians murdered their quota of negroes a new raid has been commenced upon them in Talla­ hatchie comity. Last Tuesday, two ne­ groes, who, it is claimed, came across the river from Arkansas, registered themselves as voters at Charleston, in the above county. In Northern States, in any States where law and order are respected, presuming that the charge of false registry was true, the parties would have been arrested and tried by regular judicial proceedings and punished if the charge were proven. This, however, is not the way things are done in Mississippi. The ftre-eaters usurp judicial preroga­ tives, aud condemn and punish all offenses by murdering the supposed offenders, provided they are negroes, without stopping to inquire whether they are guilty or not guilty, aud, haying mur­ dered the offenders, then turn upon their friends and all other persons unfortunate enough to wear a black skin, who may get in their way, and murder them. This was the programme on this occa­ sion. Tho two negroes were at once chased and fired upon. Some other ne- groes|stood by them. The pursuers re­ turned and reported that the negroes were swearing vengeance, against them. At last accounts, calls had* been made upon various towns for assistance, and the nAt news we may expect to hear is of a negro-hunt and the murder of all negroes who may happen to be in the way of the hunters, whether they are guilty of anything or not. In tins aftftir, as in the Clinton massacre, the chief trouble is, first, that.the victims are ne- grees, and, second, that they are Repub­ licans. Suppose that this rule of mur­ dering those who register themselves falsely were made universal, how large a part of the Democratic party in the North would survive the next election ? The rule, however, is only ffood and op­ erative where the offenders nappen to be negroes and Republicans. In view of th ese later developments respecting the Clinton massacre and the possibility of its speedy repetition at Charleston, it is incumbent upon the government to interfere and compel or­ der. This is no longer the professional outrage business, nor stories set afloat by carpet-baggers for partisan purposes of outrages upon negroes. The reports come too direct and circumstantial, and we are corroborated from too many independent sonrces; to be ignored or denied. The Chairman of the Demo­ cratic State Committee wlion he sent that lying dispatch to Washington that there was no trouble aud no necessity of inter­ ference, thereby deceiving the Presi­ dent, knew the statement was false. He knew that that everything was not quiet. He knew that cold-blooded murders had been committed. He knew that they had been committed by fire-eating Demo­ cratic roughs around Vicksburg, urged on by the teachings of such newspapers as tli J Vicksburg Herald. He knew that if justice were unimpeded these ruffians would be brought to the gallows. In­ stead of this, these murderers have slaughtered unoffending blacks with im­ punity, and they will continue to do so so long as there is no law to punish them and now power that will step in and pro­ tect their victims. It is evident enough that the Governor of the State is a weak, ineffic ent, timid man, who, if ho knows his duty, does nor dare to perform it, and consequently that the blacks have no hope of defense from him. It there­ fore becomes the duty of .the United States government, not only in behalf of the blacks, but in behalf of the respecta­ ble white people and of the business in­ terests of the State, to take official recog­ nition of these Outrages. It is the duty of the authorities to hunt up and arrest every one of these Vicksburg villains and bring them to punishment as speedi­ ly a? possible. The matter should not be allowed to sleep, but should be prosecuted with rigor until every one who can be identified as having been connected with the massacre of the ne­ groes at Clinton has been caught and brought to trial. The wheels of the courts in Mississippi have been rusty too long. It is time they are set in motion, and that Justice takes her long-unused sword in hand again. And there is an­ other point to be urged in this connec­ tion. The negroes must learn to defend themselves and strike back again. In the instance of the Clinton outrage they would have been justified in killing their persecutors. If there is going to be massacre, let it be massacre on both: sides. If the blacks want to preserve , their liberties they must defend them. Where they are not the aggressors they SI «P3,P \ have every nriit to stand up and strik# 3 back, and strike hartl, and when th?|: ! commence doing this in eerneet ^ rights will be respected by the flwheatev* v who are only courageous when they a»|' fighting defenseless men and women. Js* ' Chicagff Tribune. l^PBEC* OF SESATOK Lotus. " " A Te!!!»ifr <tan%rMt Bat ween the • Record ot the Republican mmt Demi*V; erstJc Parties. Gen. John A. Logan reoemly ad- ^ dressed the people of Denver, Col., o&" ^ the political issues of the day. We r$- produce a portion of Ids very ablo speech^ regretting that we have not space foe tl*ft ' whole of it: ^ The Demournije party for over forty ye&i* * ' ha«l control of this government, the oonatrn6>* tion of the Constitution, the guidance of the courts and the legislative power of the land |S| in their own hand*, and the government was administered upon the theory that power was only to be exercised by t'ae few, and that the' masses themselves should have bat little to nap as to the control of the government. But, sa^f some, you are mistaken--the Democratic narty gave freedom to all. I gay I am not mtetakeiki the Democratic theory was that power tpf vested iu tho " sovereign " SUtes, instead <ff. being diffused among the whole people, Tlia nriiiutj of thoso held in bonds were blinded wina iron &nd steel, iieeauso ths theory of the Dailp ocratic party held them m chains. [Applao&etJ Men's minds were bouad because of the theoiy of the DemOiTatH; party of tho centralization of powsr iu the hands of a few. I appeal you as intelligent people, to-night--take ili* history of the land, and when the Demoeratio party held universal sway the chain* of slavery clanked, the mind was bound, and letters, science and art were driven from the land; we lind that all those things that elevate us and show that we are mo%, compared with men of all nations of the eartfi,- were dwarfed into insignificance. Take tlir other line, and where free schools were, whefls genius was not strangled, we dnd liberty on ti» tongue of nearly every man, scicnce, arts and letters advancing, and happiness and pro*» peritv reign throughout that land. Bee the r*» Bults of these two opposing principle*. Free thought has changed your, ox teams into the locomotive ; it gave you the expansive genius that drew the lightning from the heavens and indites to-day as with a pen from one end ot' the land to the other : and so it has been in aft couutries where is this principle of universsjj ; • freedom without any restriction around the person or the mind, «Ave that prescribed fof <- , society for its benefit, and upon this rrmeipli, the Republican party is founded. The Kepnbli* ' can idea leads to the elevation, as the Demon* cratic Idea leads to the degradation of maukmcfev' There are the two roads, and you Siavp s to take one or the other. The Deni<xjjr' racy were led, as by a religions dutifc'. to carry out this theorvfor the oppression oif v mau. and extend it all over the land. Thea# - two principles produced the result of wa% Now, if I should say here to-night that thin waff. " was produced by the Democratic party, 8om|l» one would aav it is mere talk--Logan Las madjr • a statement that is not true. Well, I will pup; this question: Did you ever know a govenfw / mont to tight any one that did not light thi. V - government? [Laughter.] The result, as • Baid, was war, produced by the Democratifi theory or idea, and not only that, but it was th# Democratic party--not every man that is a Democrat to-day--but tho party by their leath­ ers both North and South that brought about this war. [Applause.} When I hear men tails- iug of the corruption and meanness of the Ilcb ...; publican party--not to go into a discussion df" > individuals, or say win is houettior uwuvueat-fifci I will say this tvt th© benefit of my Democmtls ii-- friends: There never has been a party iii V power since the couutry existed that was accused of beins; corrupt by the onnosite oartv, ' and never will be. 1 think all parties are juft about as honest as they know hows a be, aim - there are many dishonest men in bolli parties; If some Democratic orator is present, I can give him a little history to make up his next speech on. If I should say George Washing* ton was a corrupt man, I suppose I would in­ sult the audience here to-night, who have great reverence for the father of our countty. I will say this--as many of you know ^ell--oo man was ever maligned or abused worse, in thin republic, by newspapers *>v nnlUfc. clans. So it was with and jackscm. The llepublican party has now been iu povfer long enough to be very roundly abased. I ad­ mit there are corrupt men in the party ; until God Almighty, in his infinite power and wis­ dom, shall create a new race of beings, there always will be corruption in parties. There is but one perfect administration of government --that by which the ivorlds revolve, and by which men are judged. ' Since these ltepublicans are so bad, the record on the other side, and we need go back but a few year*. Some of your Demo­ cratic orators say the finances are corrupt. Qe back to the administration of Mr. Buchanan, recognized as a Democratic administration.' When he took the reins of government, the country was in a fair conaition-~-how did be leave it? Corruption is no name for it! [Laughter.] I don't say Mr. Buchanan did it t but, when lie left, there was not one dollar left in the treasury of the United States, and yon borrowed money in New York to run yoor gov* ernment with, and paid 12}$ per oent. in gold interest ou it. He left your government not he found it, in peace and quiet from the Nort&» -.W •r':A era lakes to the Southern gulf, but iu war, ta» mult and confusion. When you talk about eo§» ruption and wrong-doing, let us have hiatorv .-j*;i history 'is. Your Democracy depleted your ^ treasury, put your government in banl|iC ruptcy, armed and equipped thent^ selves for the destruction of thti4 mighty fabric of ours, the proudest govern- mont that God ever gave to man. When yos|p^ flags were torn from the masts of your vessel^ ^ when your foils were taken and sacked, wheljf-- vour mint iu New Orleans was robbed and youfe-v; bullion stolen, who did it but Democrats ? Au||'i vet vou talk about the corruption of the re­ publican party! Why are 200,000 maimed sol- * diers pensioners to-day ? Because the Democi^; ;f racy made war upon your government. Wit , owe two thousand millions of dollars, beoaus|f^: of the war to put down this rebellion--to preif J' serve the Constitution aud flag and givo yo|fc ,> back a united government, and for this Dem>#3v cratic conduct is responsible, in a war againss the government for the preservation of slavery and of the $3,000,000,000 of debt incurred bp a Democratic war against the govermneip $1,000,000,000 have been paid under a Republp-;."' can administration. [Applause.] Wheii Mr. Buchanan retired we paid 12!< pejpei cent, interest on the public debt; now when Republican party rule, with a debt of ;?2.OO0> ; 000.000, we pay 5 per cent. Whioh is the be|k adtninutration ? 1 know the truth hurts MBW> timee, but we must tell it. '•v> A Ponderous Lccomotlve. An engine has been recently placed on the Pennsylvania railroad wliieV weighs seven tons heavier than the popr derous Modoc, ithoee drawing eapaoitjb is almost twice that of an ordinary loco­ motive. The Modoc is oapable of tak­ ing eighty loaded cars from Harrisburjjj to Columbia, while other engines are put , to a severe test when they pull fifty cars on that portion of the road. This loco­ motive, when fully initiated, is expected to get away with 100 cars. The only ar̂ i gument that can be used against large engines is that they are hard cm tracks, , but as the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-K,/ pany has adopted steel rails--able to ^ withstand a greater pressure than iron!< rails--the wear will not be material. The introduction of these mammoth en- gines is considered a very economical;^ measure by the railroad company. World. • , E m NEVKR hail a man as a friend who is-: V '* "*j foggy in his ideas ; it's snow good talk-S ? - ing to liim. Profound melancholy r-jdna^" ; while he is present, and when he's " he's never mist. Oh, dew drop this of thing! J&.