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J. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami Publisher. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. ILLINOIS NEWS. MATRIMONY by telephone is an inno- vution, but it is said to have been prac­ ticed in Quincy recently. PKASI trees Li. Southern niinoiBftppes* to bo affected with a blight, the cause of which, so far, is unknown. Miss JESSIE STEELE, of Paris, was killed by a runaway horse just after her arrival in Cincinnati to visit friends. A REUNION of Grant's old regiment, the Twenty-first Illinois, will be held at Decatur on the 6 th and 7th of October. THE first locomotive that ever made a run out of Chicago is said to be now rotting in the yard of the Northwestern railway at Turner Junction. SANGAMON county boasts of a veteran, now 82 years old, who a short time ago went hunting, and in nineteen shots killed twenty squirrels. ONE day recently forty-two locomo­ tives went out from the Chicago and Al­ ton railroad shops, in Blooinington, for work on the various divisions. THE Illinois State Firemen's sixth an­ nual tournament will be held at' Mon­ mouth, Sept. 1, 2 and 3. Fourteen hundred dollars in prizes will be dis­ tributed. WILLIAM L STEIN undertook to kill a man at Petersburg, .but, in the tip lit that ensued, his weapon was accidentally discharged, the ball entering his own skull and causing almost instant death. A COMPETITIVE examination will be held in Quincy on the tirst Wednesday in September for the purpose of nomi­ nating a cadet candidate from the Eleventh Congressional district for the United States Military Academy at West Point. IT is stated that a young man of Wood­ ford county has died of the effects of taking too severe a shock of electricity while attending circus. He was strong, and wanted to show the other boys pres­ ent how much he could stand ; therefore the full force of the battery was turned on, and in a few days the cfiiet village cemetery received an occupant. MB. PETEB PAGE, one of Chicago's oldest and most respected citizens, died suddenly at his home recently. He at­ tended church in the forenoon, and died in the afternoon. Mr. Page was 66 years of age, had a been a resident of Chicago for forty-three years, was at one time a leading member of the City Coun­ cil, and was appointed by President Lincoln the first Collector of Internal Revenue for the district. THE State Agricultural Department h as information concerning a new qual­ ity of wheat, called the Siberian. Mr. W. H. Green has cultivated it for the last three years, and finds it to stand the weather better than any other variety he has ever tried. The Agricultural De­ partment at Washington has ordered from Mr. Green 500 bushels, to be sent out for seed. Last year the yield from this variety was forty-four bushels to the acre by actual weight. Illinois F&lm. The following is the list of the places, time, and date of the fairs in Illinois for the year 1880, as reported to the State Board of Agriculture: Comities. Plate of l<'ciir. Time, of Fair. Adams. Camp Point AUK. 30--Sept. 3. Adams Quincy Boone Belvidero Sept. 7-10. Brown Mt Sterling Aug. 24-27. Bureau Princeton Sept 13-16. Carroll Mt Carroll Sept. 28--Oct. !• Caaa Virginia Aug. 17-20. Champaign Chainpaign Sept. 21-2*. Chr stiau Taylorville No fair this year, Clark Marshal) Sept. 22-24. Clay Flora Sept. 28 Oct. % Clay Louisville Coles Charleston 8ept 7-11. Crawford.. Robinson Sept. 28-Oct. 1. Cumberland Prairie City Sept. 29-Oct 2 DeKalb Sandwich Sept. 14-17. DeKalb Sycan;ore Sept. 14-17. De Kalb De Kalb De Witt C.'iuton Aug. 20-Sept 8. Douglas Tuscola Sept 14-18. Du Page. Wheaton Sept. 8-10. Edgar Paris AUK. :IL-Sept 3. Edwards Albion Sept. 28-Oct 1. Effingham Effingham AUR. 17-20. Fayette ..Vandalia Sept. 29-Oct 1. Ford Paxton Aug. 31-Sept 3. Ford Gibson City Franklin Benton Sept 22-25. Fulton Canton Oct. 4-8. Fulton .Avon .Sept. 28-Oct 1. Gallatin Shawneeto wn Out 5-8. Green Carroiitjwn Oct. 19-22. Grundy Morris Hamilton McLeansbnro Sept 22-25 Hancock. Carthage Hardin E!izalx'thtown. ..Sept 22-25. Henderson. Biggevilie Sept. 14-17. Henry Cambridge Aug. 3T>-Sept3. Iroquois Onarga Sept 7-10. Iroquois.. I Watseka Jackson Murpliysboro... .Sept. 21-24. Jasper Newton Kept. 21-24. Jefferson Mt Vernon Oct. 12-15. Jersey JerBeyville Oct 12-13. Jo DavieRs. Galena Sept. 28-Oct 1. Jo Daviess Warren Sept 14-17. Kane Elgin Sept 14-17. Kane .Aurora Kankakee Kankakee Kendall Bristol Sept 7-9. Knox Knoxville Sept. 13-17. Knox Galesburg Lake Liberty ville 8ept. 23-25. Lake Waukegan Sept. 27-Oct. 2. La Salic Ottawa Sept ti-10. Lawrence Ltwrenceviile .. .Oct 6-9. Lee Am box * Livingston Pontiac Livingston Fairbury Sept 0-10. Logan Lincoln Aug. 23-28. Logan Atlanta Sept 7-LO. Macon Decatur Sept 21-25. Macoupin Carliuville Sept 7-10. Marion Salem NO fair this year. Marion Centralia Sept 21-24. Marshal) Henry Marshall Wenona Sept. 27-Oct 1. Mason Havana... Sept. 7-10. Massac Metropolis Qct 13-16. McDouough Macomb .Aug. 24-28. McDonough.....BUHhnell McHenry Woodstock Sept. 7-10. McHenry Marengo ..... Sept 14-17. McLean Blooinington.. ..AIUJ. 31-Sept 3. Menard Petersburg Aug. 31-Sept 3. Mercer..., Aledo 4 ....Sept 20-23. Montgomery Hillsboro Montgomery Litchfield Morgan. Jacksonville. Aug. 23-27. Moultrie Snliivan Sept 14-17. «g!E Oregon Sept 21-24. Ogle , ltocheile Sept 6. Peoria. Peoria. Perry Pinckneyville.... .Oct 6-8. Piatt. Monticello Aug. 16-20. Pike Pittsfieiil Sept 22-25. Pope. Golcouila Oct 7-11. Putnam Hennepin Randolph Sparta Sept 29-Oct 1. Randolph Chester Oct 19-22. Rich'and Oluey Sept 14-1&, Rock Island. .., .Hillltdale Sept 15-18. SALINE." Hnrri*burg Sangamon Sprin t̂i-ui (State Fair). Schuyler Ruchvulr Sept 7-10. Scott Winchester Shelby Shelby ville Sept. 21-25. Stark Toulon 8ept 21 -24. St Clair Belleville Oct .12-16. Stephenson Freeport No fair this year. Tazewell D lavan 8E^T 13-17. Union Jonesboro Sept. 14-1& Vermillion Catiin Sept. 7-10. Vermillion Danville Aug. 31-Sept 4. Vermillion Hoopest< >11 Aug. 23-27. Wabash. Mt Carmcl Sept 26-30, Warren Monmouth Sept. 7-10. Wavne. Fairfield White ... Carrni Sept 7-11. Whiteoides. Sterling 8ept 14-17. Whitesides Morrison Sept 7-10. WhiteeidcB Albany 8ept J-3. Will ..Jo'.iet Sept. 7-10. WlUianisou Marion Sept 28-Oct L Winnebago Rockford Sept 13-17. Woodford. M Paso Sept 14-18. State Fair. Springfield Sept 27-Oct 2. those who receive salaries in excess of 83,000; the second, between 03,000 and $2,000; and the third, between !$2,000 and @1.000. These three classes are termed by the department Presi­ dential offices, because the Postmasters are appointed by the President and con­ firmed by the Senate. Of these grades there are in Illinois 162--a larger nnra- l>er than in any other State except New York--and the whole number in the country is 1,764. The fourth class com-? prises all offices under SI,000, and the appointments are made by the Postmas­ ter General. Tins is, of course, the most numerous class, and includes all, from a cross-roads Postmaster with a dollar or two a year up to those that fall just short of an even thousand dollars. The whole number of offices in the country ia 49,970. In the present adjustment one new Presidential office has grown up.in Illi­ nois--Fairfield, Wayne county--with a salary atfetched of $1,100. One office-- Sheldon, Iroquois county--has dmpped below the standard, although last year the compensation was $1,400. There has been an increase of pay in seventy- six offices, a decrease in fourteen, and seventy-two remain stationary. The heaviest increase--$400--was at Hills­ boro, Montgomery county, and the greatest decrease--$100--at Freeport, Stephenson county, which has fallen to 32.400. The first-class offices in the State--those receiving $3,000 or over- are Bloomington, Chicago, Peoria, Quincy and Springfield. Chicago receives only $4,000 a year ; but this is entirely owing to that Con­ gressional restriction which prevents an allowance, except in^ the case of New York, in excess of the figure named. No office has, during the year, risen from the second to the first class ; and Jacksonville, Morgan county, is the only one that has advanced from the third to the second, with a present salary of $2,200. Under the new adjustment, the follow­ ing offices are reduced: Old Xew Clax*. Salary. Salary. Alton 2 $2,100 $2,000 Auburn 3 1,100 1,000 Bushnoll 3 1,600 1,500 Decatur 2 2,800 2,500 Dixon ,a 2,100 2,000 Freeport 2 2,800 2,400 La Sail® 2 2,200 2,000 Mattoon 2 2,300 2,200 Mavwood 8 1,400 1,300 Pekin 3 2,000 1,900 Rock Falls.. 3 • 1,500 1,300 Shelbyville 2 2,100 2,000 Waukegan S 2,000 1,800 Wenona 3 1,100 1,000 It will be seen from the above that two offices, Pekin and ' Waukegan, dropped down from the second to the third class. No other changes of classi­ fication occur in the list. The offices in which an increase of pay takes place are as follows : * Old ,\>tr Claim. Salary. Salary. Aledo 3 $1,300 $1,400 Am boy 3 1,700 1,800 Anna 3 1,100 1,200 Areola 8 1,100 l,:;oo lieardstown 3 1,300 1,400 Braid wood 3 1,300 1,400 Cairo 2 2,000 2,100 Cambridge 3 1,100 1,200 Carbondale 3 1,500 l.fiOO Carliuville ..3 1,800 1,900 Carmi « 1,300 1,500 Carrollton 3 1,500 1,700 Carthage .8 1,500 1,700 Chatsworth 3 1,000 1,100 Chenoa 3 1,000 1,100 Clinton 3 1,600 1,700 Delavan .S 1,200 1,-SOO Duquoin 3 1,500 1,600 East St Louis 3 1,600 1,800 Edwardsville 3 1,100 1,300 Effingham 3 1,400 1,500 Evaiit-tou 3 1,700 1,800 Fail-bury 3 1,600 1,700 Fairfleld ..3 1,1(10 F niton 3 1,000 1,100 Galva 3 1,700 1,800 Genoa 3 1,000 1,200 Gibson City 3 1,000 1,100 Greenvi.le 3 * 1.300 1.400 Havana 3 1,400 1,600 Havulock 3 1,000 l,loo Henry 3 1,500 1,700 Highland 3 1,000 1,100 Hi lsboro. 3 1,000 1,400 Jacksonville 2 1,900 2,200 Joliet .2 2,400 2.500 Leiuont 3 1,000 1,160 Lena 3 1,000 1,200 Lewiston 3 1,100 1,200 Marengo 3 1,300 1,400 Marseilles 3 1,100 1,300 Marshall ..3 1,200 1,300 Mendota 2 1,800 2,100 Minonk 3 1,200 1,400 Moline 2 2,4C0 2,500 Monticello 3 1,100 1,200 Mt. Moms 3 1,200 1,300 Mt Pulaski.. 3 1,300 1,400 Mt Sterling 3 1,000 1,100 Mt Vernon 3 1,300 1,600 Nashville 3 1,100 1,200 Normal 3 " 1,600 1,700 Odell 3 1,000 1,100 Ouurga 3 1,000 1,100 Oregon 3 1,21)0 1,300 Peru 3 1,500 1,600 Petersburg. 3 1,400 1,600 Pittt-lield 3 1,400 1,700 Piano 3 1,000 1,100 Kockfonl 2 2,500 2,600 KuslivWe 3 1,000 1,200 Salem. -- 3 1,200 1,300. Slmwneetown 3 1,100 1,300 Spart< 3 1,200 1,400 Streator 2 2,000 2,100 I ay ior ville 3 1,600 1,700 Tuscola 3 1,400 1,600 Vandalia 3 1,300 1,400 Virdeti 3 1,100 1,200 Warren 3 1,200 1,300 Warsaw 3 1,200 1,400 Wheaton 3 1,400 1,500 White Hall .3 1,100 1,300 Winchester. 3 1,000 1,100 Woodstock 3 1,500 1,600 The offices not enumerated above re­ main unchanged. Pertinent Qneitioai for Busioeti Men to Ponder* [From the New York Tribune.] the country sick of prosperity? Does it long to go back to the rule of that party under which the public cred­ it sank to zero, and secession and civil war crowned a long career of sectional misrule, greed and aggression ? Would it not be well to look about and to look back, to see what the condition of the Country is, and what it was when Dem­ ocracy ceased to govern it, before decid­ ing upon such a change ? Within the past year the country prdluced more wheat than |gpr before, more corn than ever before, more cotton than ever before, more iron than ever l>efore, more petroleum than ever be­ fore, and has taken in from abroad more specie than ever before. Its manufact­ ures have increased in value, and in number of workmen employed and sup­ ported, beyond all precedent Its ex­ ports and imports have far surpassed those of any previous year in its history. As a result, the tide of immigration-- the great barometer which shows the relative condition of labor in different countries--has risen higher than ever before for twenty-five years. These are, in many respects, the direct and in oth­ ers the indirect effect of twenty years of Republican rule. Let us see'what the country is, and what it was during the last year of Democratic rule. In 1860 there was general prosperity, as there is now. The census and crop reports of the year 1859-60 afford us some neans of comparison, as follows: Inc. 18f?0. 18RA. per ct. Population 31.443,324 48,858,000 55.0 Wheat produced, bu 173,104,924 440,000.000 154.2 Wheat exported, bu 4,155,153 175,000,000 4,111 * Corn, bu........... 838,702,740 1,430,000,0 HI 72.9 Corn exported, bu.. 3,314,305 100,000,000 1,917 3 60,204,019 - - 500,000 910,770 2a->.o:i« 2.350.822 7.610,914 Wool, 11:*. Petroleum, brla Iron,tons Rsi!s, tons. Hoffs packed Butter exported, lbs Cheese exported. 15,515.7'.'9 Merchandise imp'd.$33d.28.\485 Merchandise cxp'd .$316,242,423 Go!d and silver f 40,150.000 Gold and silver exp.$ 57,006,104 Gold and silver imp. 232,500.000 285.8 19,741,661 3,84.". 3 3,070,875 234.1 1,113,273 6,950,451 38,248,016 141,654,474 $070,000,000 $335,000,000 $ 79,711,990 442.9 195.7 400.6 613.5 99.3 164.2 72.9 j Excused. i The unexpected invariably happens in ! a Colorado court. During the calling ! of a new pa^el of the petit jury, receut- ! ly, seven men asked to be excused from I service. Among them was Newton | Adams, gambler. "Why?" asked the Judge. " I am a gambler." " You are ! a common gambler, are you?" added i the Judge. "Yes, sir," said Adams. • " Well, you are excused." Then, turn­ ing to the Sheriff, "Take this man in : eustody." The look of blank astonish­ ment which settled on the features of I Adams' face amused the court loungers. He went out with the court officers, and . returned in a few hours with Alexander | Lewis as his bondsman. When the | identity of the Widsman was established, ; six writs for indictments for gambling, | found by the Grand Jury, were immedi- | atelv served upon him. Lewis was sur­ prised in his turn. $ 75,713,531 The exports and imports of gold and silver are net, and as to 1880 are for only eleven months ending May 31. The merchandise imports and exports for the year just closed, and some items of pro­ duction, are estimated from trade re­ turns. These comparisons might be in­ definitely extended, but surely more are not needed to call attention to the enor­ mous expansion of industry and trade within the past twenty years. The quantity of cotton produced is the only item in which there has not been an in­ crease far greater than that of popula­ tion, and the crop of 1879-'80 was ex­ ceptionally large. Compared with any crop raised prior to that year, the crop of 1879-'80 shows an increase of over 42 per cent. Moreover, our ability to market cotton is limited by the growth of the demand for that product in other countries, and thus has no proper rela­ tion to the increase of our own popula­ tion. But the conduct of affairs under Republican rule has been such that vast­ ly-increased quantities of other products have not only been produced, but mar­ keted with profit. Our own people are so much more prosperous that they buv about 100 per cent, more goods' from abroad than they did under Democratic rule, and their industry has been so en­ couraged and developed that they pro­ duce, in excess of all their greatly-in­ creased wants, and export to foreign countries 164 per cent, more than they did at that time. Tne consequence is shown in the last three lines of the table. In 1860, under Democratic jxilicy, we had to pay out all the specie which we produced, aiid a little more, to meet the excess of im­ ports over exports. In 1880, under Re­ publican policy, we not only raise from the earth 73 per cent, more of the pre­ cious metals, but keep it all, and imijort besides from foreign countries $75,700.- 000 in eleven months to pay for the ex­ cess of our exports over imports. In 1860, raising $46,000,000 of specie, we were paying out $58,000,000, and getting poorer or running into debt every year. In 1880, raising $80,000,000 of specie, we are also receiving for our surplus products sold $75,000,000 more in specie, and so are paying debt or accumulating wealth at the '"ite of $155,000,000 a year. The difference is one which every intelligent man understands is due al­ most entirely to the changed policy of the Government in regard to finances, taxation, development "of industries, and substitution of free for slave labor. Those are a few evidences of the wonderful chanpes which Republican rule has wrought in the condition of the country. They nre felt in the better em­ ployment which labor fiuds, in the higher wages which the workman receives, In the innumerable comforts that he now enjoys, which twenty years ago were not within his reach, and in the vast increase of wealth, of comfortable homes and of thriving farms. They are seen in the f act that 177,000 immigrants of a better class than ever before landed at tliis city during the past six months. The ques­ tion comes home to the personal interests of every voter : Are we so sick of the marvelous progress and matchless pros­ perity of the country under Republican rule that we want to go backs to De­ mocracy and its practical results? TALKING AND SAYING NOTHING. A Western Scene. Traveler--"Bay, boy, which of these roads goes to Milton ? " Stuttering Boy--"B-b-both on 'em goes tliar." "Well, which is the quickest way?" " 'B-b-bout alike ; b-b-both on 'em gets there 'b-b-b-bout the same time of day." " How far is it?" '"Bout four m-m-miles." " Wliich way is the best road ? " " T-t-they ain't narry one the b-best. If you take the right road and go about a mile, you will wish you were back ; and if you t-turn back and take the 1-1-left- hand one, by the t-time you have g-g- gone half a mile you'll wish you had kect on the other r-?-road!" Traveler--" G'lang! " Adjustment of Pootctl Salaries. The annual adjustment of the salaries of Postmasters has been completed, the following being the result in this State : In the number of its postoffices, Illi­ nois stands fourth on the list, with an His Garden. He went to the back door, and there saw his garden, the pride of his waking hours and the subject of his dreams, looking like an editor's office. He sat down on the door-step and said, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest •re these, 'I keep a hen."* A Sharp CrillriMii of Hancock** let­ ter of Acceptance. [From the Buffalo Express.] Gen. Hancock shows plainly either that he has no opinions at all on the public affairs of the country, or that he is afraid or ashamed to express them. His letter is compounded of guttering generalities and nothing else. We knew nothing of his views before reading it. We know just as little now. We are prepared to believe that he wrote it him­ self. Certainly Mr. Tilden didn't. There is more pith in the little finger of tlv t dried-up old man than in the loins of this military aspirant to civil digni­ ties. Why should Gen. Hancock quote to the country (and quote wrong) the clause of the constitution which savs tiiat the rights not delegated to the Uni­ ted States nor prohibited to the States are "reserved to the States respectively or to the people f" It may be novel to him, but it is not so to ordmarily-intelli­ gent civilians, and quoting it throws no light on anything. Nobody has doubt­ ed its existence. The question in dispute is as to its interpretation, and on this Gen. Hancock has not a word to say. What rights are delegated to the United States, and what prohibited to the States ? To what " people " are the unspecified rights reserved ? What is the "lawful jurisdiction." of the United States, and of the several States? Are members of Congress State officers or United States officers? May their election be regulated by national laws, oar only by State laws 7 Wo know Gen. so much as heard of them. He would, he says, resist any attempt to impair or evade the constitution. Why, of course he would". Before he could take his seat he would have to swear to maintain the constitution. Bat why doesn't 1 e let us know what he would consider an impairment or evasion? Opinions differ so widely on these subjects that his gen­ eral declaration really amounts to noth­ ing at ail. So with his statement that fraud, violence, and incompetence are bad for a Government. Of course they aw. But why doesn't he give ns liis new patent cure for them if he has one? It does no good to tell people to be wise and do the right thing, and they will prosper. They must be told what the right tiling is- the path of wisdom must be pointed out by one who aspires to be a raler of the people. Civil-fervice reform mav be secured, he says, by electing welt-' aualified men to office. But how are le people to choose out the well-quali­ fied men fi-om the mass ? By the cau­ cus system ? Is it that, the* most cor­ rupt of our political elements, that is to give us reform ? If it is, why does not the General exemplify its value bv re­ citing his own qualifications for office if he can think of any ? We must manage affairs wisely, he says. But how is wise­ ly ? Is it to have honest monev or dis­ honest ? Is it to encourage Chinese im­ migration or to discourage it ? Is it to continue to coin silver or to discontinue it ? We must extend commerce and manufactures, both at once, he says. But how ? Will a high tariff or a low one work l>oth ways at ones. Should we have free ships or should those of foreign build be excluded? To these and all the other questions of the day it can only be answered tliat Gen. Han­ cock doesn't know or he won't toll. What an attitude for a man who wants to be President! The Sun was riglit The committee should have denied Han­ cock pens, ink, or paper. They should have put as close a watch over him as there is over Tanner. He should not have been allowed to cut his throat with a steel-pen. If he had kept as still as an owl he might have been thought as wise as one, but -vlien he becrsui to sing his voice betrayed him. J&e is of the genus popinjay, and of the family ig­ noramus. BURNING WORDS. A Hew York Soldier os the Demo­ cratic Record. The veteran Union soldiers in Utica, N. Y., lately formed a Garfield and Ar­ thur club. Among the speakers was Col. Anson S. Wood, of Albany. We quote one paragraph from his remarks, as follows: Itoli back the black curtain of the past twen­ ty-five years and ask the keeper of the records what the Democratic party has done. It tried to extend and strengthen human slavery by opening to its desolnting influences the gate­ ways of the frw; and fertile Northwest. It tried to bribe Kansas into adopting a slave con­ stitution under which the tyrant might live and drive hiB horrid trade in human flesh, and chief among the brilxvgivers was the man whose name has taken the place of "reform" upon the Democ ratic ticket It tried in the very out­ set to aid rebellion by an official declaration that the constitution gave no power to preserve the nation. Its last President stood cowardly by and saw, one by one, the strongholds of the na­ tion pass into traitors' hands, and made no ef­ fort to stem the rising tide of rebellion. From 1861 to 1864 it was in sympathy with traitors, and gave its whole inHuence as a party to schemes to embarrass and cripple the Govern­ ment. In 1864 it had become so emboldened by Union losees that At the very turning point in the war it declared that war a failure, and proposed a truce with rebels in arms. Happily for the country, its dismal notes were drowned amid the shouts of victory that went up from Atlanta and the Khenandoah. And when the war was over, and the question came whether Union men or traitors should control ck govern in the South, it promptly arrayed itself upon the eide of the traitor. Its whole weight and power was put against any reconstruction that did not give the reins of Go\ eminent into the hands of the men who sought to destroy the Govern­ ment. It hindered and obstructed reconstruc­ tion, opposed and denounced resumption, struck hands with every enemy of a sound and honest currency, condemned every effort to re­ store confidence and establish permanent viilue and healthv business. For a quarter of a cent­ ury it has been a steady brake upon the wheels of progress, and a vigilant and active enemy of honest reform. Ever since Lee's surrender at Ap omattox it has sought to surrender tlie fruits oftthat great victory, and at all times it haw been ready and anxious to betrav the lib­ erties of the freedmnn. Go further back and look at the state in which it found the country in March. 1853, when it placed Franklin Pierce in the Presidential chair and took upon itself the administration of the Government. Look at the state in which it left it eight years later, when James Buchanan stepped j down and out forever. In its eight years of i power it had bankrupted the treasury, nursed and fostered rebellion, and forged the shackles to bind the nation. And this old party, with all the rottenness of years upon it, comes to the loyal, patriotic people of thi* goodly land and demands that it be intrusted with the ad­ ministration of affairs, that it may be put in every Federal office, from President down to the humblest postofHce in the land, either rene­ gade He publicans or boisterous Democrats, who will owe their places to the solid vote of a soiid South, controlled and run by the men who to-day gl ry as much ns ever in the justice of "the lost cause." Are you, inv fellow-citizelis, art! you. my fellow-soldiers, prepared to give votes to accomplish this? The Confederate flag must dis p]>ear forever. The " lost cause " must be decently buried out of i-ight; the Union must be the god of our statesmanship, and the blue the color of our uniform, every­ where, from Maine to California, from the lakes to the Gulf, in Mississippi as well as in New York, before it will do for th • Republican party to loosen its grip or surrender control of the nation. 8PEFCH OF GEX. GARFIELD At tlto Dedication of the Soldier*' Monument, liencva, Ohio. FELLOW-CITIZENS : These gentlemen had no right to print in a paper here that I was to make a speech, for the types ought always to tell the truth, and they have not done it in this case. But I cannot look out upon a great audience in Ashtabula county, recognizing so many old faces and old friends, without at least making my lx>w to them and saying good-by l»efore I go. I cannot, either, hear such a speech as that to which I have just listened without thanking the man who made it, and the people who enabled him to make it; for, after all, no man can make a speech alone. It is the great power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts 011 him and makes the speech. It origin­ ates with those outside of him, if he makes one at all, and every man that has stood on this platform to-day has had a speech made out of him, by you, and by what is yonder on your square. That is the way speeches are made, and if I had time to stay here long enough these forces with you might make one out of me. Ideas are the only things in this universe that are immortal. Some people tliink that soldiers are chiefly renowned for cournge. That is one of the cheapest and commonest qualities. We share it with the brutes. I can find you dogs, and bears, and lions that will fight, and fight to the death, and will tear each other. Do you coll that warfare ? They are as courageous as any of these soldiers, if mere brute courage is what we are after. The difference between them and us is this: tones. fL ra^ne îOTe eaten the creature they have killed, that is the only reunion they ever hold. Wild beasts never build monuments over their slain comrades. Why? Because they have no ideas behind their war­ fares. Oar race has ideas, and because ideas are immortal, if they are true, we build monuments to them.' We hold re­ unions not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. JThey are past our help and past our praise. We can give to them no glory, and we can give to them 110 immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them. The glory that trailed in the clouds behind them after their sun had set falls with benediction on us who are living ; and it is to com­ memorate the immortality of the ideas for which they fought that you assemble to-day and dedicate your monument that points up toward the God who leads them in the glory of the great world be­ yond. And around those ideas, under the leadership of the immortality of those ideas, we assemble to-day rever­ ently to follow, reverently to acknowl­ edge the glory they achieved and the benediction they left behind them. That is the meaning of an assembly like this; and to join in it, to meet you, my old neighbors and constituents, to share witli you the memories that we have heard rehearsed, and the inspiration that this duty points to, that this monu­ ments celebrates, is to me a joy, and for it I am grateful. Was It a Revolutionary Conspiracy ? One-half of Gen. Hancock's letter to Gen. Sherman in 1877 was devoted to an attempt to persuade the latter that the House of Representatives should, as it probably would, elect Tilden President, and he should, as he probably would, " inaugurate himself," as he phrased it. It would then have been Sherman's duty, as General of the army, to recog­ nize the self-inaugurated President, and, if necessary, use the army for that pur­ pose, whatever President Grant and the Secretary of War might have said or done. It is impossible to put any other con­ struction upon that letter of Hancock's, as the matter now stands. The full cor­ respondence might make his true mean­ ing plainer, but cannot change the rec­ ord. already before the public, nor the impression it has made. The public Mill not be satisfied until the entire cor­ respondence is published, and the peo­ ple have a right to demand, if neces­ sary, a full knowledge of all the letters which passed between Gen. Sherman and Gen. Hancock, or any other army officer upon this subject. They were in . no proper sense private or confidential, no more so than was the correspondence which passed between John Sherman, the Secretary of the Treasury, and his official sultordinates throughoijt the country in connection with resumption, all of which are now public property. At the time this correspondence be­ tween army officers took place, in 1877, the air was filled with rumors of armed resistance to civil law. There was im­ minent danger of bloodshed on a vast scale. If tlie General of the Army com­ municated with some of his lieutenants upon a subject that was then agitating the country, the nation ought to know all about it. Were there other army of­ ficers Inside Gen. Hancock who thought that if the rebel Brigadiers of the House should override the constitutional au­ thority of the President of the Senate, and insist upon making Tilden President, the regular army ought to be used to carry out the party conspiracy ? Hancock's letter clearly indicates knowledge 011 his part of a well-defined plot to capture tlie Presidency. The one thing needful to its completeness was to secure the co-opeftitiou of Gen. Sher­ man. The adroitness with wlucli he suggested and yet veiled his real pur­ pose in this letter is worthy a candidate who must satisfy all of those he fought against, and a few of those ho fought with, in order to " inaugurate himself." --Chicatfo Journal. When Hancock (jets In. An aged colored woman wns sitting in a street-car in this* city a few days ago, and all tlie other Seats were occupied, some of them by strong men. Tlie car stopped ana a well-dressed white woman of about 35 years entered. Her move­ ments showed that she was able-bodied and strong. She looked along the row of passengers tintil her eyes fell upon the old colored woman. "Get up and give me that s^at," said she, in a sharp voice and arrogant manner to tlie old lady. The latter paid no attention to the demand until a man who accompa­ nied the white woman took hold of her shoulder and said : " Don't you hear what she said ? Get up and give her that seat." Thereupon the old colored woman replied that she would not give up the seat. " Well," said the white woman, angrily tossing her head, " when Hancock gets in we won't have any of you niggers in the street-cars, and yon •will be taught to know your place." The old woman replied with some spirit to tliis, and two or three Republicans who were in the car encouraged her and took up a subscription for her benefit. -- Cor. Chicago Times. Startling Figures. Congressman Keifer. of Ohio, in a speech made by him on tlie ftccasion of his renomination, summarized the Con­ gressional votes of four Mississippi dis­ tricts in 1872 and 1878 as follows : Tr.ke four districts in Mississippi (Money's, Singleton's, Hooker's, and Chalmers') for the years 1872 and 1878 : Never before in the history of the Re­ publican party, save at a National Con­ vention, have so many leading men in the party been collected together, out of Congress, as were gathered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,New York,on the 5thinst» Most of them were drawn to that city by the notice that a conference on political matters woidd be held, and others came to pay their respects to Gen. J. A. Garfield and Gen. Chester A. Arthur, the candidates of the party. Among them were John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury; United States Senators IiOgan, of Illi­ nois ; Allison, of Iowa ; Plumb, of Kan­ sas ; Blaine, of Maine; Dawes, of Mas­ sachusetts ; Bruce, of Mississippi; Rol­ lins and Blair, of New Hampshire ; and Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Thurlow Weed andex-Gov. Morgan, of New York. Ex-Gov. Jewell, Chairman of the Re­ publican National Committee, called the conference to order and presided. He made a brief address, explaining the ob­ ject of the gathering, and was followed by several speakers, including United States Senator John A. Logan, of Illi­ nois ; and the Hon. John Cessna, Chair­ man of the Pennsylvania State Conven­ tion. The following resolution was adopted _ jResolvrf, That it is the sense of this meeting that Southern districts should be assisted whenever such assistance was demanded, and that the campaign should not be abandoned in any Southern State. Secretary Sherman, being called on, said his heart beat for all those men who had carried their banner through the Southern States, be they white or black. When Republicans sent money and aid to Indiana they also did good to the Southern States. He would give to those Southern districts they expected to carry, men, aid and money. He would not waste money where he knew it would do no good. Addresses were also delivered by Hon. George B. Loring, of Massachusetts; Ex-Senator Conover, of Florida; John Cessna, of Pennsylvania; Senators Blaine and Logan; A. M. Jones, of Illi­ nois ; Ex-Governor Pinchback, of Louis­ iana, and Thurlow Weed, of New York. _Geu. Garfield did not participate in the conference. During the day he re­ ceived many distinguished visitors, and in the evening he was tendered an ova­ tion by the Republican Central Cam­ paign Club,. headed by Gen. Ditten- hoefer and Gen. John C. Fremont. Ov®r 1,000 members of the club were intro­ duced to Gen. Garfield. He referred to Gen. Fremont as the first Republican Presidential candidate he voted for, whereat Gen. Fremont responded by saying that the first Republican candi­ date greets the last. face of their open avowal to tne it shame- lessly, their candidate has the effirontery to say, " It is only by a full vote, free ballot and fair count that the people cm rule in fact, as required 1» the tbescyai our Government. k , w L»7I 1878. MSTBICT. Dem. | Ilep. Vote, j Vote. Dem. Vote. ' Itc]>. Vote. Third Fourth Fifth Sixth 6,44(1 15,047 8,S70; l.V'WI 8,07:*! 14,8M 8,50!) j 15.101 4,125 4.02T) • 4,8ir. • C,«W 650 B86 1,370 Total Sl,893| 60.915 : lu.c-jy 2,712 Tbe llepublican vote in these districts in 1872, when each was largely Republican, was 60,915, and in 1878 it was 2,7i0, a loss of above 58,000, and the Democratic vote fell off about 12,000. These and the other equally startling tigures I referred to in a speech in Congress in April, 187!), and challenged the members from these districts for an exnlanation of the causes which prevented the people from voting. None was given; none exists, save that by violence and crime a free ballot was suppressed. What Justice Swayne gays. 80 far as I am concerned, there is an entire misstatement. I never wrote a word of what is attributed to me. I never knew anything of the facts of the matter charged against Gen. Garfield, and it was certainly never in any shape before the Supreme Court. 1 had, therefore, neither occasion nor oppor­ tunity to express any judicial opinion upon the subject. It is not stated where any case in which Gen. Garfield was concerned is reported. My confident impression is that I never heard of Buch a case before. Gen. Garfield is a per­ sonal friend of mine, and I have the highest confidence in his integrity. Michigan Republican Convention. The Michigan Republican State Con­ vention met at Jackson on the 5th of August It was very fully attended, and great interest was manifested in the proceedings. Col. Henry M. Duffield was eliosen permanent President of the convention. There were no leas than five leading candidates for Governor, each one of whom received between 100 and 110 votes on the first ballot, namely : F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo ; David W. Jerome, Saginaw; Tlios. W. Palmer, Deiroit; John T. Rich, Lapeer ; Rice A. Beal, Ann Arbor. O11 the tenth bal­ lot the contest was narrowed down to Jerome and Rich, the former receiving the nomination. So protracted had been these proeaediugs that the conven­ tion then adjourned till 9 in the even­ ing. On reassembliug the remainder of the ticket was nominated as follows : Lieu­ tenant Governor, Moreau S. Crosby; Secretary of State, Win. Jenney, renom­ inated ; Treasurer, Benjamin D. Pritch- ard ; Auditor General, W. J. Latimer; Commissioner of Laud Office, James M. Neasmith. The platform adopted recites the past achievements of the Republican (tarty; particularizes the record of the Demo­ cratic party and denounces it, and calls for the administration of tlie constitu­ tional amendments secured by the war by their triends, not their enemies ; de­ mands equality 111 tact and not in name only; calls for a free, ucintimidated ballot and fair count, with no tissue bal­ lots or cipher dispatches ; believes the United States a nation, not a confeder­ acy ; insists 011 the protection of Ameri­ can labor, and tin removal of taxation from the necessities of the poor. The following was also adopted : The Union mnst and shall be preserved; the public faith must be maintained; the public debt must be faithfully paid ; the pensions of the national defenders and their dependents must, be sacredly guarded ; the public lands pre­ served for actual settlers ; fidelity, intelligence, and efficiency exacted in the public service without destroying the freedom of an office- holding citizen ; specie resumption must be maintained ; laws for the protection of the puri­ ty of elections must be adhered to and enforced; education must be fostered ; industry, economy, temperance and morality encouragtil and stim­ ulated, and the public funds strictly devoted to public and unsectarian uses. Duriug the evening session the candi­ date for Governor was introduced, and made a short appropriate sj>eech in ac­ ceptance of the nomination. Tlie de­ feated candidates were also called out, and happily and amusingly ente rtained the convention, all pledging their hearty support, to the ticket. All was harmoni­ ous, and that Michigan will roll up her old-time Republican majority was the sentiment of the convention. MOVEMENTS OF GEN. GARFIELlfe Gen. Garfield's journey through thd State of New York was a magnificent triumphal procession. At, Bufialiyf Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Amstcrdaitt^ Hudson, Albany, and several other places, vast crowds gathered to the distinguished traveler. Gen. Gar­ field made a few remarks of thanks at each place. At Syracuse he oongrattfc .... lated the people on their devotion to hard-money principles. At Garrison** lie was met by ex-Secretary Fish, Mrs. Fish, and Hamilton Fish, Jr., who eor- . ^ially greeted him. Gen.-Garfield wag received everywhere with great enthu­ siasm. Music, cannon salutes, and a plentiful display of bunting were of the features of the occasion. At the Grand Central depot, New York, abort 20,000 people gathered Mid made that uir vocal with cheers. Gt a. Garfield left his home at Mentca^ ; foio, on the 3d inst, for New Yoilt • city, to participate in a conference of the Republican leaders. Stopping at Gene- , va, Ohio, where a soldiers' monument was to lie unveiled, he made a brief and | eloquent speech. When, he reached Cleveland, lie was joined by Mr. Con- - Ker, of Michigan, Godlove S. Orth, GewL Ben Harrison, and Gen. Straight, of In- f di »na, A. L. Morrison, of Chicago, and others, and proceeded east over the " Lake Shore road in a special car. At all places where stops were made ea* f < thusiastic crowds greeted the candidate. Kukluxism in Georgia. The Btorv of the outrage on the Thompson family, colored, by night- riders in Georgia, shows how the bar­ barism that inspired kukluxism survival • Nowhere, except in one of the ex-slave States, is such an atrocity possible. It is such as nowhere, even in the Sonth, would the worst outlaws dare attempt to perpetrate upon anybody except negroes. To the night-riders who disgrace the South, disgrace our civilization, and dis­ grace humanity, the " d--d nigger ** seems created to be hunted down and horsewhipped and shot in cold blood aa the members of this colored family were. And while the Governor of Georgia, to his credit, has maintained the law against mob violence in the case, it is none the less significant of the barbarous senti­ ment pervading the State, that the mili­ tary had to be called out to prevent the rescue by a mob of the pnrprt ratntia the atrocity.--Inter Ocean. It Is Life or Death Now. The Bolid South is making a last dea- perate effort to retain its hold on tfcia Government. If successful now it hopes so to use its influence as to gam a long lease of power. But if defeated this year it knows that the scepter will pass from it never to return. The new census will leave it in a hopeless minor­ ity unless it can get control of the new apportionment of members of the lower house of Congress. That is why the South is fighting so desperately and was willing to accept any candidate at Cincinnati that would aid it North.--Netv York Tribune. ' v * ' fj A Small Couple. Germany can justifiably boast of hav­ ing produced the smallest married.' couple that ever stood before an altar, in the persons of a miniature "Marquis" and "Marchioness," who have for some­ time past been exhibited 011 the Plaoe JIU Theater, at Odessa. The " a native of Kiel, is 30 years ohl and weigh# only nineteen pounds, while his fairy-*, like consort, a young lady, born in Non- munster some 22 years ago, just timia the scale at thirteen pounds. At -first glance this tiny pair, it is said, might be taken for a couple of scarcely-weaned babies, dressed u£ for a joke in the garb of adults, but on a closer examine- ... tion the genuineness of their maturity becomes unmistakably apparent. A cefe- ' tain pleasant flavor of romance rnna through the story of the circumstancea « that led to their union. Although they are both German-born wonders, leased by their parents to traveling showmen at an early age, they never happened to meet at the fairs andKerniesseu of their native land ; but a year ago, the " Mar­ quis " being on exhibition at Moscow, while Fraulein Lilli was starring at 3L Petersburg, they became aware of one another's existence through reading the newspaper notices of their respective characteristics, and entered into a car? respondence, which soon led to a ren­ dezvous and ultimately to the contrac­ tion of a matrimonial engagement. Now they take their professional rounds to­ gether, and are saving up their earnings with the object of retiring into private life in the Fatherland. Nuremburg could, doubtless, supply them with the most charming of dolls' houses, emin­ ently suited to their minute domestic re- quirements.--London Telegraph. v ̂ % 1 *1* ' "f1 . IK/ :S1 ipS; L 'I' 1 Southern Democratic Sentiment. How do the people of the North like such sentiments ns those contained in the following letter printed in the Mem­ phis Avalanche ? The letter is pub­ lished without one word of disapproval, but with the apparent approbation of the editor: The fact is, before we can expect the pros­ perity of the good old days before the war in tlie South, we must have the same homogenei­ ty of public sentiment. A regards questions relating to the negro, we must have but one yarty, and that the Democratic party. White men who dare to avow themselves here as Re­ publicans should be promptly branded as the bitter and malignant enemies of the South. The name of every Northern man who, like E iton and Bigelow, presumes in tliis communi­ ty to aspire to office through Republican voces, should saturated with stench We can spare all 'such, and would caution such as these who think of coming South to be careful to keep away. You, )ir. Editor, must hang out again your small-pox flag and rid our community of such vermin. Yon may think me a little bold in using such lcngnage upon the anniversary of onr flight from the yellow fever in 1879. The North, to be sure, sent us some money, but we scorn the imputation of beggarv. The North but returned a little of the money It stole from us during tfc® war. No, sir, we must put *n end forever to this shameless effrontery of Northern men or Re­ publicans aspiring to office in the 8outh. They must keep back seats, and very quiet ones, or get out. I was glad to see vou let vour correspondents loose upon that blatant judical, William R. Moore. The whole lot moat be rendered in- famons and odious. As for the negroes, let them amuae them­ selves, if they will, by voting the Radical Uoksi. We hato Uw eonok. Arsenic in Colorings. > It is now well understood that arsenie-- is extensively used in the dyeing of cloth, and in the pigment of wall papers, and that it has given rise to many in­ stances of severe poisoning. In the for­ mer case the poison is mainly absorbed by the skin. In tlie latter, microscopic particles float in the air of the room and are inhaled. One effect of thus receiving it into the system is to destroy the red- blood corpuscles and thus diminish the nutrition of the nerve centers. f; j The following is a striking but typical case, and has additional interest from the glimpse it gives us of the consideC^ ate character of the present Queen ot England: - A gentleman employed by the latter to do a piece of work was furnished » • room in the palace. Though it was well warmed and every way comfortable, ho found himself quite chilly after retiring, and at length his teeth l>egan to chap­ ter. Attempting to rise to get a largo Spanish cloak to throw over him, be was unable to move, and he began to be affected with a severe and peculiar pain|» , He finally fell asleep from sheer eat-, haustion. In the morning he noticed for the first time that the walls of the* room were * covered with a brilliant green paper. > The truth at once flashed on his mmd. On getting out of bed he staggered like* drunken man, and it was with diliicuity he could dress. The fresh air soon so- stored him. The Queen, on learning the state of the case, had a piece of the paper analyzed. It proved to bo highly lysemeal. At once she had the paper stripped frovk every room in the palaoe.-- Yomth'a Companion. IT is estimated that tho shipment ot peaches from Delaware this year v3| 1 ;vt"v