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:>*"k Mi * f * - ' * > r ' ? u t v y** w , ^7* <* *& % **w' ̂ ^ *9*4 F'l M.'l '"' Wl cfScntg fttnindeale* 1. VAK SLYKE. ft liter sod Publisher. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. -.. HTJOH MCCAWH, a laboring man of Albany, has been in the habit of sleep­ ing with his right una under him. He .awoke and discovered that that aim was paralyzed, and the Burgeontells him4hat it is doubtful if he ever regains the use *«•• _--! • * An a «weU qolorqd wedding in Char­ lotte, N. C., the bride's costume was white silk. The "first bridesmaid" was •dressed in light blue silk, and was jkdorned with a diamond necklace, dia­ mond bracelets, and so oo. The second bridesmaid wore pink silk. It was a etar-spangled-banner wedding through­ out • JOSEPB I*, Lxwzs, of Hoboken, N. J., left his whole estate, valued at over ^1,500,000, to the United States, to be -applied to the reduction of the national •debt. His natural heirs of course con­ tested the will and endeavored to prove *h« insanity of the testator. The matter &as now been compromised, $968,589 go­ ing to the Government, and the re­ mainder to Lewis' two half-sisters and •the children of a deceased half-sister. THX 82d birthday of Mr. Henry Shaw, •of St. LouiB (of " Shaw's Garden"), was recently celebrated by the prominent citizens of that city. Mr. Shaw has •been a resident of St. Louis for sixty- three years, a period that maybe said to -embrace the city's growth. He has dis­ played great liberality toward the city, 4md has established there the Missouri Botanical Gardens, Tower Grove Park, -and given sites for charitable institu­ tions. BARON REIJITEB, the famoUB news agent, was employed when a boy in a broker's office in Frankfort-on-Main, 4tad he it was who first discovered the idea of duplicating stock messages from Xiondon and other cities by means of manifolding, and by which large amounts •of money are saved on telegraph tolls. Beuter got his first start by getting one -early message and manifolding it»- He sold this to a number of brokers at re­ duced rateB, and yet made a handsome per centum on the price of one message, and thenee oonceived the idea of estab­ lishing a general news ageney. KANSAS has many slirewd lawyers, and J* friend sends us this anecdote»of one of them : The law requires that a person must be 21 years old before he can pre­ empt land. When one comes in to ask if he can evade this law, and have his fooys, who lack some years of being 21, " prove up" some land, the attorney igmiles serenely and says: " Of course; •certainly; it is the easiest thing in the -world!" And when the time comes to •HAB out the papers the attorney marks -with piece of chalk on the floor, "21 •years old." He places the affiant on the -floor standing on these words, and has him swear that he is "over 21 years old." SOME queer complications grow out of the marriage of the Duke of Westmin­ ster. The Duke's daughter, Beatrice, was married to the eldest son of the late Lord Chesham, who has since succeeded to the title, and has borne him a son and heir. Now the Duke himself has mar­ ried Katherine Caroline, Lord Chesham's sister. The Chesham boy, born in 1878, is the nephew of his new grandmother, who is his father's sister; consequently liis grandfather is his uncle. From this it follows that his father, being his uncle's son, is his cousin, as is also his mother. But it must be remembered that, since his father and his mother are both his cousins; he is his own second •cousin. Again, his father, being his ' ^grandfather's brother, is his great--uncle and his mother is his great-aunt. AN opinion was recently rendered by •Judge Lowell, of the United States Cir­ cuit Court in Massachusetts, with refer- -ence to silver quarters and half-dollars with pieces cut out and the holes filled with other metal. Judge Lowell holds that such coins are in effect counterfeit, atu1 that whoever so mutilates them or knowingly passes them is guilty of coun­ terfeiting. The reason by which he Teaches this conclusion is that coins of thesevdenominations are required to be of a certain weight and fineness, and are .not a legal tender if they fall below the fixed standard. "H such a coin," he &ays, " has had an appreciable amount -of silver removed from it we cannot say that it remains a good ooin for its origi­ nal value, or even for proportionate -value. If, then, the hole is plugged with base metal, or with any substance other than silver, this is an act of counterfeit­ ing, because it is making something ap- jpear to be a good coin for its apparent -value which was not so before;" and when the defendants oame fox them they wanted to pay for the additional time at the rate agreed on for the four­ teen days. The plaintiff refused to ac­ cept this, and has brought suit for a much larger sum. AT Frankfort-on-the-Main there is an interesting law suit pending. It in­ volves the maintenance of nine pug dogs. The plaintiff is a lady who seems to keep a dogs' boarding-house, and the defend­ ants are the Marquise Henrietta de Bal- .lado and the Baron M. Matthias. The latter left their dogs in plaintiff's care for a fortnight, agreeing to pay twelve •cents a day for the handsomest and five •cents apiqce for the other eight. The stipulated bill of fare was to be : Break­ fast, bread and milk; dinner, soup, meat 'and vegetables ; 4 o'clock repast, bread and coffee; supper, meat and bread. It was further provided that they should have white cabbage or as­ paragus tops to keep their blood pure, and should on no account be compelled to eat such a plebeian and unheaithful article as a potato. The dogs were left much longer than the fourteen days, THB eminently-successful experiments in telephony recently made by the Bel­ gian meteorologist, M. van Bysselberghe, will greatly enlarge the usefulness of the telephone. This experimenter has suc­ ceeded in eliminating from telephonic communication through a wire the in­ ductive action of a neighboring tele­ graph wire, and in employing the same wire at the same time for telegraphio and telephonic work. Thus in a recent ex­ periment a message was sent from Brus­ sels by the Morse telegraph to the Director of Telegraphs in Paris, and an oral message sent by telephone was dis­ tinctly heard while the Mcrse receiver was in action. Recent telephonic Con­ nections have been made between Venice and Milan, Berlin and Hamburg, Paris and Nancy; and it is reported^an attempt will shortly be made similarly to connect Munich and Dresden, a distance of about 340 miles. But what gives greater interest and importance to M. Byssel- berghe's experiment is that it vanquishes the difficulty of submarine telephony- A submarine cable interferes with the speed of signaling. But in the late ex­ periment between Brussels and Dover, conversation was freely exchanged with - out extraordinary vocal effort through sixty miles of cable and nearly 200 miles of air lino. "The experiment," says Engineering, "is very hopeful for telephony." ' THB London Timet has printed an exhaustive article upon the resources of Egypt, compiled from the latest and most authoritative statistics, which con­ tains some very interesting information in view of the prominent position which that oountry now occupies before the world. The population of Egypt proper consists of 5,518,000 souls, and that this population is principally rural is shown by the census of the following chief towns : Cairo, 327,462 ; Alexandria, 165,- 752 ; Damietta, 32,730; Rosette, 16,243; Suez, 11,327; Port Said, 3,854. The exports of Egypt consist entirely of nat­ ural produce, such as cotton, wheat, sugar and beans, amounting in 1880 to $67,625,000, while the imports of cotton manufactures, coal, indigo and timber amounted in the same year to $34,115,- 000, the excess of exports indicating the magnitude of her foreign indebtedness, more than two-thirds of which is to Great Britain. In addition to the polit­ ical and indirect interest of England in the canal, she has a direct interest in it to the extent of $20,000,000, represented by shares bought in 1876 and twelve years' interest due. Classifying all the loans, there is a total of $360,000,000 of capital invested in what is practically a mortgage on Egypt. Five English banking companies represent $15,110,- 000, and these banking establishments have arisen, not from any needs of the agricultural people of Egypt, but from the needs of those engaged in the transit trade. • •• 1 'F A Poor Town fer Business* He was a red-nosed, wild-eyed man from the head waters of Sage Ran, and looked as if he hadn't been in town since oil was discovered. His rusty pants were several inches too short at one end, and he carried half, a dozen ooon skins in his right hand. At the postoffice corner he met a lady, and stopping her by holding the bunch of hides before her face, said: "Can't I sell you something for to make a set of furs?" The lady screamed and shot over to the other side of the street. "Does any of your neighbors want to buy anything of the kind?" he yelled. The lady screamed again. "Now, what's the matter with Ban­ ner?" remarked the red-nosed man as the lady disappeared in the door oppo­ site. A moment later the man veered into a bai^: and threw the hides, down at the cashier's window. "Grot some A No. 1 coon skins here that I'll sell cheap. Not a scratch of a tooth on any of them. Ketched every one of 'em in a box trap." "We have no use for them," said the President politely, and as he cast an oblique glance at the goods. "They -will make you a nice vest," said the red-nosed man. "Two hides will make you a vest and one'll make you a cap that'll wear you as long as you live." "My dear sir'" replied the Presidents somewhat confused, "we don't want hides here. Take them somewhere else, please." "Mebbe your wife would like a set of furs, and these is--" "No, no, no," replied the banker impatiently, "take the tilings aWay; they are offensive." "What's that?" said the red-nosed man, sharply. "Take the lbamed things out of this," exclaimed the exasperated banker; "tbey smell like a slaughter house." "I'll take a dollar for the lot." "The people next door buy ooon skins," put in the cashier; "take them in there, take them up town, take them down town, take them oyer the river, take"-- "Gimme fifty oents for the lot,"- he persisted. "If you don't get out of this I'll kick your head off," yelled the President. "I'll take thirty cents for six," said the red-nosed man. "D'ye say the word?" and he dangled the bunch by the tails. The President started for the outside. The man with the skins started for the sidewalk, and after having reached it he paused and said: "Grea-a-at Godfrey! If sealskin' and sable were selling for a cent a car load, the hull town can't buy the sand-paper­ ed end of a rat's taiL-- CALIFORNIA does every filing on a mammoth scale. Her vineyards yield 10,000,000 gallons of wire annually, and her fruit report for the past year shows a shipment of 7,000,000 pounds of green fruit, 2,000,000 pounds of dried fruit and 4,088,430 pounds of canned fruit. How MANY people weald be mute i! they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others?--Mme. de Ibntatme. HLHOB im OK* Beardstown watermelon patch contains 120 acres. IJMAYOR HARBISON, of Chicago, hsa gone on a brief voyage to Europe. JOHN BUSH, a pioneer of McLean county, died at Chenoa, aged 86 years. A CHILD'S corpse was fished out of the river at Peoria, having a brick fastened around its neck. ( THB internal revenue collections in the Peoria district for the month of July were $1,208,671.05. DURING the month of July the City Treasurer of Springfield honored de­ mands to the amount of $35,000. THB Chicago bank clearings for July were $279,820,441. The clearings for the week amounted to $54,773,638. THE Young Men's Christian Associa­ tion has succeeded in breaking up Sun­ day base-ball playing in Springfield. FROM March 1 to date Chicago pack­ ers have slaughtered and salted 1,225,- 000 hogs, against 1,709,000 for the same period last year. DURING the month of July the police of Quincy made'242 arrests, and sixty- eight of those found guilty were sent to the workhouse. FIVE prisoners escaped from the Alton city jail through the intervention ot some outsider, who broke the iron bolt on the outside of the door. THE railroad pond between Virden and Girard is being stocked with Ger- than carp. This makes the fourth pond in the vicinity of Virden in which fish culture is carried on. MRS. FRANCES M. SOOVTLLH, sister of Guiteau, the assassin, has filed a bill for divorce in the Superior Court of Chicago from her husband,, George Bcoville, on the ground of cruelty. DURING a severe thunder-storm, the wife of Michael Kelly, a farmer living a few miles northeast of Tuscola, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. She was engaged in milking. BISHOP SEYMOUR and other gentlemen of Springfield have bought the tract of land on the eastern shore of Green Bay, Wis., known as Bed Banks, which they will beautify and use as a summer re­ sort. * THE Finance Committee of the Spring­ field Board of Education have offered Gen. McClernand $12,000 for his resi­ dence property, corner of Sixth street and Enos avenue, to be used for Bchool purposes. THE Assessors oould find only $50 worth of diamonds and jewelry in the whole county of De Witt, and in the matter of gold and silver plate and plated ware the Assessors found only $135 worth." ---- GEN. MICHAEL EL LAWLBB, a soldier of the Mexican war, and also Colonel of the Eighteenth Illinois Volunteer In­ fantry at its organization, but afterward promoted Brigadier General, died at his home in Gallatin county, aged 70 years. A HAN and his wife changed cars at Peoria, the other day, and had reached Pekin before it occurred to them that the blessed baby had been left behind. They returned in time to relieve the Peoria depot officials of a great embar­ rassment. MRS. HARRIET BUS WELL, of Lincoln, who died, left her entire estate, worth about $8,000, to the poor widows of that 'city. She was the widow of the man who was for years connected with the Chicago and Alton railroad as conductor and agent at that place. To PROVIDE an increased water supply for Springfield it is proposed to smk a large well in the bottom of the San­ gamon, whioh is relied on to furnish the city a supply of pure and wholesome water. It is the intention to Bink such a well during the season. DURING the present season the hard­ ware and implement dealers of Bloom- ington have sold no less than ninety- eight tons of twine for the use of twine- binders. This amounts to 196,000 pounds. The twine runs 700 feet to the pound, making a total of 137,200,000 feet. BOOK ISLAND having adopted electric lights, under a contract for three years, the question of locating nine towers is now before the Council. Eight ot the towers will be 125 feet high, and one seventy-five feet. They will be twelve feet square at the base, gradually de - creasing until the upper platform is reached, where the light is stationed. PROF. FORBES, State Entomol­ ogist and Curator of the Norjnal Muse­ um has been experimenting for some weeks upon the chinch-bug, and has discovered what he believes is a certain eradicator of the destructive pest. This is a solution of water, kerosene and milk, costing | a cent a gallon, and to be applied with a simple machine. It has performed its mission wherever tried. THROUGH the efforts of Gen. John A. Logan, the soldiers' lot at Woodland Cemetery at Quincy has been made a national cemetery. This places it in charge of the United States, and an appropriation will be made each year to take care of it. The change will also insure the appointment of a superin­ tendent, whose duty will be to see that ever) thing about the lot is kept in good order. THE city of Peoria has long expe­ rienced an obstruction to its trade in the shape of a toll-bridge across the Illinois river, which, by its heavy exactions against passengers and teams, has kept away a great deal of business.. Like enterprising people they are unwilling to allow this obstruction to continue, and the City Council has offered the bridge company $48,608 for the bridge, with the design of making it a free bridge. AN eloping oouple from Scales Mound, near Galena (the girl being only 15 years of age), were overtaken by the irate father at Bellevue. where the swain had obtaired work in a saw-mid. They were waiting to replenish their exhausted finances preparatory to getting married. The girl had arrived in Bellevue shabbily dressed and almost barefooted. Her affianced had invested the first money he earned in procuring her a neat pair of shoes, and intended to invest her with more new " duds" as fast as he got able. The father, however, compelled the girl to accompany him home, she pro­ testing that she loved her fellow, and would elope with him again on the first opportunity. ists, youngsters and zealots were jammed together so thick that the mass looked like Broadway pavement, with bald heads for cobbles.--New York Time*. EXPLOITS OF QUE KA.TTV How Office** Haw Me* EmeifeaelM (From the Philadelphia Press.] Without mentioning those instances where our navy gained great distinction and renown in foreign waters, while act­ ing under direct authority of Congress, in the bombardment of Algiers and Tripoli, during the conquest of Cali­ fornia, the war with Mexico, and the two wars with England, our small but ever gallant and alert naval forces have earned and sustained a reputation foi prompt and efficient action in the pro­ tection of American interests abroad which has been the pride and boast of all true and patriotic Americans. During the year 1823, the Porto Bioo (Spanish) privateers having upon sev­ eral occasions interrupted our commerce, Commodore Porter sent a communica­ tion on the subject to the authorities of the island. Lieut. W. H. Cocke, in com­ mand of the brig Fox, in attempting to enter the port of St. Johns, in order to receive a reply to the Commodore's of­ ficial communication, was fired upon and killed. Commodore Porter threatened to bombard the town, and was dissuaded from doing so only by the prompt apology of the authorities of the island. Again in October, 1823, Lieut. Piatt, commanding the United States brig Beagle, learning that one of our mer­ chants doing business at St. Thomas had been plundered by Spanish pirates, and his goods taken to Foxado, a small port on the island of Porto Rico, proceeded thither to recover his property. On making known the object of their visit, Lieuts. Piatt and Ritchie were arrested and detained under guard for a day. Commodore Porter, with his character istie promptness 4HDIAMA REPUBLICANS. AB Enthusiastic State Conven­ tion. Speeches of GOT. Porter, Attorney General Baldwin aad Others. The Republican State Convention of Imtim*, held at Indianapolis on the 9th mat., was nota­ ble for iU numbers, ita intelligence, its enthu­ siasm, its harmony and the rapidity and smoothness of its work. All of the present I State officers were nominated by acclamation for re-election. A number of rattling speeches were made, some of whioh we herewith repro­ duce. •} HOH. kICBABD W. THOMPSON, who presided over the convention, spoke as fol­ lows: 1 esteem it an honor for any man to be elected to preside over such a body of men as this, composed as it is of representatives from every county in the State, and assembled here to speak the will and utter the voice of tbe great Republican party of Indiana. I thank you, in all sincerity, for this honor which you nave conferred upon me, I skionld shrink somewhat from the duty devolving upon me in view of the fact that I am required in this posi­ tion to administer legislative rales, for the reason that very many years have passed since I was a member of a legislative body, but I am emboldened to undertake the task" because of the fact that this is a Republican Convention, which requires no special enforcement of rules of parliamentary order. We assemble here under very favorable circumstances, indeed--at a time when this country is in the enjoyment of •a higher degree of prosperity than has ever fallen to the lot of any nation of peo­ ple on the face of the earth; at a time when we possess everything that can make the heart of man glad ; when we occupy a position ti^ong the nations of the earth fas* forward in tho very front rank, and are enabled to send out the in­ fluences of our free institutions in every di­ rection, to encourage all mankind throughout proceeded to Foxado ! the world in tbe struggle for the right of self- to demand explanation and redress, Finding that the authorities, upon hie arrival there, intended to open fire upon his vessel, he landed a force of sailors and marines, took their batteries, and compelled from the offenders the fullest apologies. In February, 1832. Commodore Downes, in the frigate Potomac, ascer­ tained that the Malays had captured the American ship Friendship, of Salem, Mass. An expedition was fitted out from the Potomac, officered by Lieuts. Shubrick, Hoff, Ingersoll and Totten, of the navy, and Lieut. Edson, of the marines. The Malays made a determ­ ined resistance, but were finally over­ come and several of their forts captured and destroyed. For this action the officers of the expedition received the government When, in the midst of all tho joy and consolation to be derived from this con­ dition of things, we are asked how has all this been brought about, the answer of every intelligent man is that it han been the result of twenty years' administration of Republican policy, and that it hax been produced in spite of the opposition ̂ the Democratic parly. It is the result of that system in tho admiiiistra- tion of public affairs which recognizor the right of the people of this country to control their own affairs, and which denies to any sector body of men, calling themselves by whatsoever name they please, to dictate to the people bow their will shall be expressed. When the Republican party obtained posses­ sion of thin Government it was without credit; the machine had run down ; our bonds were hawked about in the market of the world with not the value attached to them that belongs to the paper of the brokers of Wall street; we were without money in the treasury, with a destroyed trade, and with everytuing to make tbe heart of an American freeman leel sad. Bat more than that, we had in our midst an ii,„ Whilo more man mai, we uaa in our miast an thanks of the department. While Com- ?fenemy rosolved to tear down the fairfabrio mander Kelly was at Shanghai, in 1851, in the t>loop-of-war Plymouth, a com­ bined attack of the English and American forces was made upon the encampment of the Imperialists in retaliation for aggressions committed by them upon British residents. In this action the Chinese were severely punished. This voluntary act of Commander Kelly re­ ceived the approval of the President and the department. In the latter part of June, 1853, while Commander Ingraham, in the sloop-of- war St. Louis, was at Smyrna, Turkey, he received information that a fiut>f**> rian named Martin Koszta, with an American passport aud papers, had been arrested by some Austrian officials (ou which our fathers had builded, by a merciless, cruel anil unUallowed civil war, which was in­ augurated for no reason in the world but to carry out that great Democratic idea of State's rigu'ts, which places tbe Btate higher and above national authority. We took possession ot the Government under that condition of affairs. And what have we done witbin that time? Men often say that the man who lives at this time sees more in a few years than our fathers would have seen in 100 years, and that is true. But the man who undertakes to read and investi­ gate and examine the history of the Republican party will hnd within the twenty years of its existence more of history, more grandeur, and more that is calculated to make us feel that we are upon a plane of elevated prosperity far beyond what has been attained in an hundred yearn, history of any other party the world has ever seen. The fathers of this republic laid the founda­ tion*) of our institutions through anguish and tribulation; and we have sustained them than _ to de- cido for ourselves, and for the people whom we represent, whether that great party which has made HO muoh of history, which has done all thee* Krnat Iking*, which has so permanently and firmly fixed the foundation* of our Institu­ tions that tio power ou earth shall be enabled to assail them successfully--whether that great the charge of being a deserter from tlie Austrian army), and was held prisoner j through tribulation far more aggravating ou board an Austrian brig-of-war, which j theirs ; but here we are assembled to-day i vessel was supported bv an Austrian steam gunboat. Commander Inaraham iBHnediately mado% deaiakd for release, at tiie same time running out his guns and preparing his ship for tiction. Koszta was promptlv released mid the , . „ A , - , •- . .pirited ac.ioa ol Co^modoreln^l.a™ | the calamitous cousequences which threatened the very existence of our country. And yet they are not done talking alxrnt the rights of the States---they seem to have inflicted upon them the disease of States' rights, and anon aak of the people of this country to return them to power for that reason alone, and nothiug else! * * * The State rights doctrine of the Democratic party of Indiana is nothing but old-fashioned nullification revamped. * * Our Democratic friends hi this State have re- ehnstcncd their party, and in their platform bave declared that not Andrew Jackson, but Thomas Jefferson, is the father of their party. And he was the author of nullification--the only President of the United States, from the beginsung up to now, who ever declared in any form whatever that the States of this Union had the right to nullify a law of Congress. As an American citizen, and a citizen of the Htate, the speaker begged the Democratic party not to inaugurate any political influences which shall imperil the existence of the Union, for tbe peo­ ple of this country do not intend that this Union shall be destroyed. They intend that the States of this Uuiou shall exercise the rights which belong to them ; and they, at tbe same time, intend that the national Government shall exercise all ita superior and sovereign rights within its oWn constitutional sphere. Now what have we got to do ? We have simply to declare to the people of tbe United' States and the people of our own State that we of the Republican party stand where we have been for twenty years. That we are a party of tbe people; that whenever great questions which affect our fundamental laws-- and which do not pertain to the machinery of party--have to be settled, the best and the only true mode of settling them is to submit them to the voice of tbe people and when the people liavt) decided them we recognize their verdict as linal. That is tho-theory of our Govern­ ment. Lot men declaim and wrangle about these (piestious as they please--the future of <iu>- - x "lonoe mus' not be imperiled. That I call Ktitc rights. This, however, it seemii to me. is not an occasion for speech making. I am not a speech maker. I used to be one in tbe days of our fathers, but I am not so any decide these amendments. The Republican party proposes that the next Legislature takes measures to give the wives and daughters Of this State a fair chance to present their elfims and urge them before that tribunal of last resort--the people. The Democratic party have "pigeon-holed long enough in their com­ mittee rooms the appeals of the women ot In­ diana. The Republican party proposes this fall to pul-ify the county and State civil scrviee by limiting all public officers to a four-year term, and inhibiting this perpetual plotting and scheming of our ruiers to perpetuate their power. All this means another phase of that •' irrepressible conflict" between the youthful party of Lincoln and Garfield and the old party of State rights, slavery and snti-resnmptioo --the party of Tammany Hail and of Bowles, Milligan and Horsey--the party whose leaders never progress, never learn and never forget The Democratic management of to-day, and tbe last half century, is and has been a stand­ ing protect against progress; its cohesion, apoils; its success, a perpetual menace to pros­ perity and public order. Brothers, the life of a nation or a partv, like the life of an individual, is a battle, and suo- oess in that battle does not depend so much Upon the weakuess or blunders of the enemy as upon the strength of our own principles ana the completeness of our own organization. " God is always on the side of the strongest battalions." They fight strongest and long­ est who fight for ideas. Ideas alone an im­ mortal. I have no right to detain you longer. In many respects this campaign is the Gettysburg of our State politic*, it will determine whether Indiana is to relapse into the Bonrbon- ism of Kentucky or to keep pace with the progress of free thought and free schools of the North. Let us llgtit this tight as Frederick the Great fousjht the Savon Years' war--'- with brend and lead," Let us give our soldiers the bread of enthusiasm for, and of faith in, ! American ideas. Let us giro our enemies the ! lead of facts and argument. Let all your bay- i onets be thinking bayonets, and your swords ; swords of the spirit This year let us have a ! school-house campaign. Let the battle be j fought in the people's citadel--the school-room, j The unfinished work of the Republican party ] is before and upon ns--the second generation ! of Republican soldiers. Our fathers greatly ! wrought and we greatly honor them. They ! fave us that great! nuity, Equal Doi!fcrs, Equal j lights and Equal States. The benediction aud counsel of one of those fathers ia with us to- ! day. Our President bears the scarsof a hundred battles. (Turning to Col. Thompson.) As Ten­ nyson once said of the great Iron Duke, so saw we of our Duke: Oh, good gray heed, that all mea knew, oh, silver voice, from which their omma aU awn drew, Oh, iron nerves, to true occasion true t May the dav be long distant when a sorrow* ing State shall complete that mournful oouplet: O'.i, fnllen at length that tower of strength, That stood four-gqunre to all the winds that blew. But we can't live upon the deeds of the past. Old men for records, young men for prospect­ uses. We, the sons, and the young men ot the party must finish tbe work. Certain esthetic statesmen, with sunflowers in their* button­ holes, und PreriJential and Senatorial bees iu their coat tails, tell ns that the Republic in party is a thing of the past and has aa om- plished its work. Accomplished its work!' 1'ftere stands lipless labor with bieoding hack. There stands sleek and silent monopoly. There stands womanhood, her white bosom scarred with ancient aud licensed wrong. Ireland stretches out to the Republican party her starved hands. The Chinaman prays for an­ other soul as great and just as the soul of Oliver P. Morton. Brothers, "With malice toward none and with charity for all, with faith ia the right as God gives us to see the iî ht," let us wofk on and march on until every wrong be righted and every chain broken. Let us prepare ourselves aud our beloved party for auother lustrum of duty, and so doing we shall prepare ouraeWes for another lustrum of glory and victory. GOV. ALBKBT O. FOSTER, for whom there were loud calls, thanked the convention for the compliment paid to the ad­ ministration of the affairs of the State since he had been honored with the office of its Chief Executive, but thought the resolutions ought to have included his able coadjutors, renominated to-day, who have assisted in tbe work, to each of whom he referred in very complimentary terms ; feeling as if the old Republican bugle ..j HralK was blowing again for a proud victory in No- , vember. The Republican party has been assigned the great responsibility, under divine providence, of taking up new questions and bringing them to triumph. There has never been a measure since the Republican party was yganizod. from the beginning to the end, inm^Bh it has not ultimately triumphed. Ba?.Mie time come when fetters are to be putupoq tbe people, and % ' ' "•i < • r ' *£ * received the highest commendation from the Government, and a gold medal was •warded him by Congress. In January, 1854, Lieut. Strain, of the navy, was engaged in exploring a route across the Isthmus. . Duriug the progress of the work tbe natives com­ mitted various outrages upon the persons and property of American citizens em­ ployed in or connected with the survey. In retaliation, Capt. Hollins, in the nloop-of-war Cayne, bombarded and de­ stroyed the town of San Juan de Nicar­ agua. In April, 1858, Lieut. Almy, in the Fulton, compelled the release of six American vessels that hau been seized and detained by the authorities at T inipico, Mexico. On tbis occasion the Mexican Government desired to refer the matter of the seizure of these vessels to the official action of the respective Governments. "You will release the vessels first," said Almy; "then the Government can indulge in all the •palaver* they want to." In August, 1858, Capt. Kelly, in the Saranac, compelled by a display of foroe at San Juan de Sur, in Nicaragua, the release of two American citizens who had been unjustly imprisoned. In Au­ gust, 1858, Commander Sinclair Waga, one of tbe Feejees, and in summary punishment upon the for the murder of two American citizens. He destroyed their town .and laid waste the country for miles. The Astonished. fanny sensation caused by a The If hole Alphabet at the Prize Fight. Such a crowd as the Garden held one seldom sees. Artists, actors, burglars, bankers, bunko steerers, beer jerkers, blacksmiths, confidence men, cappers, clog dancers, clerks, capitalists, Cap­ tains, Chinese, Danes, doctors, detect­ ives, divines (one), engineers, firemen, Frenchmen, Germans, Governors, har­ lots, horse thieves, idiots, Irish, jail birds, keno meu, lawyers, machinists, Mexicans, negroes, officers, politicians, Portuguese, quacks, reporters, Russians, raucheros, Spunish, sailors, tailors, un­ dertaken, vintners, waiters, xylophon- . white face among black, red or yellow . . i people, who have never seen one be- \ jonKer-. * c*n- therefore, only say that as this I r r , 41 _ . . , is a business convention, composed of business | fore, is perhaps more than matched j moa wj10 have got something to do at home, | w h e n t h e t a b l e s a r e t u r n e d a n d t h e w h i t e . . . | man stares for the first time at a negro. I We remember the exclamation of au | astonished little boy when a black man came to liis father's house: "Why don't j you wash your face?" The Philadelphia ; Uccord, noting the arrival of a party of Jewish refugees from Russia, says: Most of the refugees never saw a colored man uutil they lauded in this oountry, and when two negroes stepped in yesterday to take a look at them they created considerable excitement. "What in the matter with those men? ' asked one of the foreigners of a commit­ teeman. "Nothing," was the answer. "Ain't they sick?" was asked. "No." "Well, what makes them so black?" "They are negroes," replied the cou. mitteeman. The foreigner shook his head, and proceeded to examine the colored men closer. A crowd soon gathered and en­ joyed the sight immensely. Some of them shook hands with tne Africans, but most of them refused, and shrunk when the dusky hands were offered them. The children, and some of the women, ran in alarm when the colored men ap­ proached them. The youngsters clung in terror to the skirts of their moth rs, while the adult females were not so cer­ tain but that the d-irkies were sent into the room to scare them or eat them up. The young colored men enjoyed the sport themselves aud tried to talk gib­ berish to the exiles. GOOD roads are evidences of civiliza­ tion, and a true index of the thrift and public spirit of those sections which they traverse. we should go to work in a plain, simple business way, execute our task, and then return to our homes. RON. D. P. BALDWIN, the nominee for Attorney General, was called out. and loudly cheered. In response he said : " Unsettled questions have no respect for the repose of States or parties.'" The Republican party was born under the shadow of the sword, and her proper and natural place is in tbe fore­ front of all battles for popnlar rights and human progress. There she always has been, there she is now, and there sho always will be. Gentlemen, the Republican party has never yet made a compromise with the deviL The contest of 1882 in Indiana has in it the old heroic musio of 1862-64. The question is, shall our old battle-worn banner--the flag un­ der which we have so often marched to glory and victory uuder Lincoln, Grant and Garfield --give way this year to the Democratic stars and bars, and its new-fangled motto, " Liberty and Liquor V" Last week the Democratic Con­ vention registered the decrees of the distilleries and saloons of this State. We, the Republicans, propose to give our schools aud churchcs a chance to try conclusion* with them. The Republicans of Indiana propose this fall to see whether those two sections of our constitution which read: "The people have at all times an indefeasible right to alter and re­ form their Government,"' aud which forbids tbe passage of any law "restraining the inhabit­ ants oi this State from instructing their repre­ sentatives," mean anything or not, or whether these great constitutional rights are to be stifled under the jugglery of a political platform, writ­ ten to mean nothing ana to conciliate two war­ ring factions without committing itself for or •gainst either. The Republicans do not pro­ pose to hazard these sacred constitutional rights to loss in the excitement of legislation or the partisan uproar of a great election. Our platform demands of the Legislature of 1883 the submission of the pending constitutional amendment* to a calm vote of the people of Indiana, at a special election, where each citi­ zen may register his mature judgment sepa­ rately upon each amendment, uninfluenced by partisan arts or appeals. The Republican party proposes that tho hearthstones and firesides of our two millions of people, " that calm t l*v«l of {wblio opinion below UM storm," shall 'H' ! • in favor of free trade. The combated that doctrine; and, from 1368, the Democratic platforms < the subject of taiiff. in 1868, the? they wen in favor at a revenue tariff* m 1872, they got afraid of that declaration; and at the time Horaoe Greeley was nomisauvi they said, a* there were difference* of opinion in the Democratic party, they were in favoc A leaving it to the Ooqgnsaional districts. In 1880, instead of saying then was a difference and it ought to be submitted to the peoide, may said they would favor a revenue tariff only. The Republican party torts israewWar--*'• them on that. ^ On* Democratic friends have told ns that they are in favor of the maintenance of the law passed by a Democratic Legislature in favor of the minors, and the better securing of their wages. That law was passed without a partv diviHon in the Legislature, and when Gov. Williams appointed a Inspector bfe ip* pointed a Republican, and after Bepub- ' hcan resigned he appointed another Republican. The administration of that law bsilUK in tbo hands of the Mine Inspector, no Democrat has ever held the place. . And they are in favor of civil service ! Evfff- body here knows that the only time we ever . Democratic avil-servioe platform in Indianap­ olis was about eight or ten years ago, who} the Democrats elected officers for the control of the City Government. Them-; officers served one year, and the Democratic party put them oat ' itself. There were thousands of Democrats in this city--and, if the truth was told at the Mr. English was one--who voted to put them out of power on that occasion. They have never vet, in the whole history of the party, been practically in favor of civil senile; but in every instance when in power tbev have used office mere means of party patronage. There is one thing more important than to discuss these political questions, and that is ; ... How are we to be organized ? Are we to have % the sort of organization we had in MS1)? Is every man feeling in this contest as he felt in that contest--that he had some power to affect the result ? It is when every man in the Re- % publican party feels that he possesses soma ' power to affect the result that we win our sue- ;'4 cess. In every school district let there be" a perfect organization, where every intelligent Republican cftu tell not ouly how every other *1 Republican is going to vote, hut what Demo- < crato. if any, are going to vote our ticket. It is S a contest in which the laboring mau, the me- : ; chanie, thfi merchant, and every class is inter- f: ested in Securing one gr more votes for the > ticket; and Wi.en we are organised *in that * way, with our intelligence, energy and duci- | pliue, we always achieve success. But when orgaiuzed on the principle of display, great iB confusion, with flaunting of banners, and hope' |v runs too high, that is tho time when we lose a victory. Let the motto bo, fellow-Republicans: Every man can do a part; work is victory. •' •. • t HON. JONATHAN W. OOttD>K, u. in answer to the loud and ©tt-repeated calls, if' •aid: ' ' " te It seems to me that this is har&iy deeenU* 4f done, or done iu order, as my superiors in rants ig on the ticket are overlooked tor a more humble g, individual in the rear ; but I thank you for the ni nomination you have given me and the gallant gentlemen you have associated with me. I do 1 thank you with all my hoait for myself and for my friend, tho Governor of the State, whose nomination of me last summer yon have ratified to-daV. I had some doubts myself of mvself, but I never had auy doabt of him since I knew . 1 him a boy, earning his own education, not more ; viJ than 15 years old. He was nprignt then before God and downright beforo men, and I esteem an indorsement of his act far more than I esteem ai^indorsomf-nt of myself. g Iiv&b hen.- tho other day (I ought not to say „ it) when I heard my old friend (Mr. English) ,M nuke that wonderful speech from thia ptstfnrm(- Which he delivered as the retiring Chairman of /the Democratic Central iCwnmittW,; ^ wonderful speech I said then, and thought e\jer. 11 since, and will say now, can all be accounted for trom the fact that he has been poi tioaily asleep in the mountains, like Rip Van Winkle, ,: | for twenty-two years; and he wonld "not irecog- i nize the village of Falling Water if he were to conic back. He tells you of a riot which tool*, place, he kuows not where--nobody knows where--away back in 1850, when he Was in the Democratic party crushing out the ' •- : rights of the people--a little riot^ Z-3s4|8"? firing of a cabin or two ; cruel enough to itself; ' but/he never saw the great conflagration;' seeping over the country, kindled by I'omo- ' cfatic winds in 1861, when they were hunting ' jv men, native and foreign born, and butch- ^ *: ering them like slaves. Let me call the gentle- man s attention to that thing, which in mem- "* * orv seems to be a vision of darkness on his part I expected to hear him say something i abontthe Know Nothings, and, "if Rip Van < Winkle be dead, and this is me, who <in the d e v i l « • | am I ?" I have said more than I ought to say, *• t » but I intend to say a good deal this bummer, ' I am not going to tela any store now, but I will say a great deal this SUBBM ̂ani l atMMUd CA*'/' ' H-"# '•i'i, it shall be declared that whenk great body of,! .rZTk^h ̂ Sfe. that « «),...<! ?h.ll s!ud *•. W»hl»i tbe people desire that a change shall tie made in tne constitution, that the jpqple •*»*» not nave a right to express their vi Recounting the position taken by Democratio members of the Legislature' Upon the Four­ teenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Fed­ eral constitution, aud their attempts to break a quorum, he thanked God at that time Oliver P. Morton, a great lawyer, as he was great in ! every other way, was at the head of the State ; he called into counsel great lawyers and they said that the loyal men that had remained at their posts--they were tho Legislature of In­ diana, and that tbe ouly thing the fugitives who had loft their soul* had gained was the everlasting disgrace of their names. The efforts of the Democracy of this State to override the expressed wishes of the people, that Indiana should become a November in­ stead of an October State, eventuated in a happy condition of things by giving to the Republican party thousands of honest Demo­ cratic votes in the canvass, which wen a Repub­ lican victory, that probably caused us to win the great Presidential battle. So the wickedness of men is often turned to account for the good of the people. ^ A few months ago a proposition was made that upon thia question of the fireside--thia question of the family--this question iu whioh every wife has a good deal better right to say what ought to be done to the plain farmer who is going to the polls than Thomas A. Hend­ ricks or Joseph E. McDonald. It happened when it was proposed to submit an amendment upon the question, whether intoxicating liquors should be prohibited in this State--merely to ask that a decision of the people might be taken upon it--that the whole Domocratic party put itself in opposition to it, and it was an over­ whelming surprise to the Democratic leaders when they saw the growth of opinion among the people that the constitutional amendments should be submitted. They had no idea when their convention met there would be any such result; but the Republican party--always in favor of tho rights of the people--the Republican party had made the ni.n»ion of that quostion so popular with the Democratic masses that their convention was afraid to declare that these amendments should not bo submitted to the people, and they got up a sort of a Juggle by which, if possible, they may disappciut the people in the iuterest of rings. But they were compelled to make an appearance to the people of being in favor of submission; and to show their unfairness to the people they put forward a platform with this seeming, and then put up a statesman who unnecessarily said he was retiring from political life-- a mau who tired a shot which has proven much more effective at the breech than it was at the muzzle. And Mr. English has gone back twenty-five years or such a matter to prove, not that the Republican party has not always been the friend of our foreign-born citizens, l>ut that twen y-five years ago the Democratic party was. He didn t bring it down to a later date. Not many years ago when our foreigo-born fellow-citizens, naturalized under our natural­ ization laws, went back to their old homes, they were impressed iu the armies of the coun­ try from which they emigrated. Now, uuder Republican rule, we have treaties witn every nation in Europe by which full rights of Amer­ ican citizenship an granted every foreigner naturalized. They talk about the Republican party being in any way opposed to our German fellow- eitizeus. The" greatest political honors ever conferred upon a public man among our Ger­ man fellow-citizens iu this country were con­ ferred by the Repuhlican party upon a " man who is regarded by them as a representative German--Carl Schurz. Let the Democratic party show an instance iu which they have lo led with public honors arflr German or Irishman in that way. Here, to- little office which is Ofay good to l will give me something to live oau (pointing to Gov. FMter) ptaeed- under my head that ngiae me first souud sleep for twenty years; and ye* will do the same thing. And then, my fnepftk we will have Rice for dinner ou tho jtf of the election next November; and I will Hste * sheep-Sheerin at the oloss of the oocasioa. , . - -. •» The Luck of « Historic Knife. 4,1 Everybody knowB onder what circum­ stances Henry IV. was assassinated bf Ravaillac. The assassin, passing his arm tlixough the window of the eoaph, struck the monarch two blows witp $ knife, the latter of which pierced his heart. While still brandishing the knife, he was arrested by the orders of the Due d'Epernon, tbe knife being wrenohed from his hand by Pietro de Mttlaghino, an Italian attached to his suit, who afterward declared he had dropped the weapon in the crowd. It would appear, however, that Malaghino, who was & great amateur ot curiosities, kept his historical relic until his death, when he left it to his descendants. It is difficult to say how it came in possession of Maurice de Saxe afterward ; but certain, it is that a month before his death the Marshal made it a present to his physician, Senac. Senac bequeathed it to his son, M. Senac de Meilhan, who presented it to the Marquise de Crequi, at whose death it became th* property of the Baron de Biachefort, hear cousin, when again it was lost sight of for nsarly sixty years, until it turned up the other day in the bureau of the Commissary of SUIK ! Police in the Quartier Latin, being then owned by a student whose father had been steward to the llaimboval family. This student had been for some time in the greatest poverty, and had been heard to say that life was becoming a burden to him. The other morning he found himself absolutely penniless, a prey to the hallucination that the knife had brought him ill-luck. Determined to put an end to' his existence, he plunged it into his breast Fortunately, it was too rusty, blunt and hacked about to do much harm, aud the unhappy youth only succeeded in inflicting a wound from the effects of whioh he will be cured in a fortnight. Ever since the story became known the bureau of the Commissary has been visited by a number of collectors, each of whom has been until now under the impression thai he was the sole possessdQof the actual knife with which Hen>y I|V. was slain.-- St. Jame*' Gazette., " • VV Highly-Strung Natures. The Germantowu Telrcn ap A says ihafc to be able to feel intensely in one' frac­ tion a person must be able to feel with tike intensity in the opposite direction, whether he wants to do so or not. He who is always cheerful is never a person of very strong feeling or of exceeding re­ finement and sensitiveness. He, of all others, understands least th*«ost of a day, we have not declared in some mild lan- j fine and high-strung nature, few indeed guage about suspects, for there is not a Geruian j understand it; and perhaps is well or Irishman in British prisons ; but we have declared a great principle in favor of Irishmen; that we are for ores kins up the great estates in that island, and establishing in its place a peasant proprietorship; and we hope to see the day when the principle which prevails among us shall prevail in that island--that the legal government of Ireland shall be in the hands of the pcool" There is something substantial about tuat, which Irisemen, at least, can under­ s t a n d . . . . x . . Our friends on the other side have talked to us about a tariff. They are in favor of a reve­ nue tariff, with incidental protection and dis­ crimination iu favor of American industry. Iu 385G--in the year when the Republican party was organized--the resolutions of the Demo­ cratic National Convention were tiaak they wen that they do not--that, as Mr. Froude puts it, "Providence, in kindness, leaves most of us unblessed, or uncursed, with natures of too tine a fiber." , In November, 1858, Cap! Bkrslette, in the Urinate Webeeh, visited Bcjrout, Syria, to aiMtigate die outrage* com­ mitted upon oar eifcUKns, aiw! particular-- lj ty* rimumntannos connected with the murder of Mr. Dioksen, near Jaftk All but on© of the party implicated ia the outrages were promptly arrested, tried and summarily poniaoed by Opt. £*v*>