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•tg flamfralrr I. VANSLYKS, McHENBT, ILLINOIS. OVER fifty musical compositions, parches and songs have been put on the market since Gen. Grant's death. DANIEL LEROY, long a relie of the old Knickerbocker Society, of New Tork, who lived a life of leisure, bonght pictures, traveled, and knew people worth knowing, and died at his cottage in Newport the other day, was a broth- «r-in-law of Hamilton Fish, and his aiBter, Caroline LeRoy, still living, is &e widow of Daniel Webster. EX-SENATOB SHARON, of California, •who recently entertained the English Sir Thomas and Lady Hesketh, his daughter, received from his lordship a bundle containing suits of servant*' livery. He sent them to his residence at Menlo Park, and when one of the servants ventured out in the color and etockings of Europe he was mobbed in grand style by the boys of the neigh­ borhood. THE islands in rivers between States usually belong to one State or the other, and are thus included in tie State's jurisdiction; if not, they are under the laws of the United States. Rivers within the limits of any State are within the jurisdiction of the State, and crimes committed on them are punished by the State. The phrase "high seas," includes the entire open Ma--the highway of all xfations. A WHITER in the Alexandria Gazette •ays: Among those at Saratoga is Lieut. Frank E. Brownell, who shot James W. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall House, in this city, when the latter killed Col. Ellsworth, May 24, 1861. He wears the insignia worn by Col. Ellsworth and discolored with his blood. Brownell's home is in St. Louis, where he and his brothers have • merchant-tailoring establishment. A GOOD wig of white hair, says a ton- BOrial artist, costs about $40, but (and tins is a secret of the trade and can only be told in whispers), the material of which the wigs are made is clipped from the festive goat, and never from the human head. A peculiar soft, silky kind of snow-white hair origin­ ates on the Angora rabbit A perfect white and abundant wig of white human hair would cost $1,000, at least. A FEATURE of the tobacco trade in North Carolina is the shipment of large quantities of the weed direct to Europe. Formerly the dealers in Rich­ mond and Petersburg bought up the crop and shipped it. The develop­ ment of the tobacco trade in North Carolina, since 1865, has been remark­ able. It gives employment to over fifty thousand farmers and employes. There are not less than ten thousand em­ ployes in the warehouses and factories. PROBABLY the fastest cruiser afloat is the British vessel Mercury. She has attained an average speed of 18£ knots an hour, while the average speed of the Chilian ram cruiser Esmeralda is given at 18 knots, and that of the French cruiser Milan also at J8 knots. The Mercury is 300 feet long qnd 46 feet in breadth, and has 22 feet draught of water. The Chilian vessel is 23 feet shorter, but, although the French ship is 3 feet longer, her breadth of beam is Only 33 feet MR. OHRISTOPHEB TALBOT is the only member of the House of Commons who sat in it prior to the reform bill of 1832. Fifty-twb years ago he was returned, at the age of 29, for Glamorganshire, and the connection thus formod has been continued uninterruptedly up to the present day. The only member who can be said to rival Mr. Talbot is Mr. Gladstone, who was born in 1809, and has been a member of the House of Commons since 1832, with an interval of two years from 1845 to 1847. THE traveler who happens to stop at Monterey, or almost any known town of Mexico, and drops into the rude inn, or gets a simple dinner at the principal restaurant, will see hanging on the wall » portrait of a serene-eyed, strong, visaged man, dressed in partly military, partly clerical garb. The waiter, if asked who it is, will answer with be­ coming pride: "It is our Mexican Washington." It is thus Mexicans re­ fer to Miguel Hidalgoy Costilla, the leading spirit of the apparently futile rebellion of 1810-11. A BANK-BOOK which has an interesting history was presented at the Center Savings Bank, a Massachusetts institu­ tion, a few days ago. The owner of the book, anv aged lady who is dead, took it out in 1855. depositing $91. In 1856 she added $35 to her nest-egg; the fol­ lowing December she deposited $20 ,1860 she put in $8, and in June of le same year $30. September 1,1880, she drew $100, leaving $156 in the bank. The book was made up to July 1, the sum total being $1,075, including interest amounting to about $920. A CLERGYMAN who had learned to use a type-writer wrote consolation to a parishioner who had lost his wife. The man was indignant, and would not speak to the pastor. When a friend inquired the reason, he said: "I always supposed he had some heart, but when my wife died he sent me an infernal circular, not having enough interest to write something especially adapted to my case. I want nothing to do with a man who is so heartless and formal as that." The bereaved gentleman sup­ posed the letter was one of many printed and kept on hand for auch oc­ casions. NINE more victimized English boys have turned up at Los Angeles, aged 14 to 17, says the San Francisco Bulle­ tin. Their fathers in England were induoed to pay £20 entrance-fee for on the fruit-farms in California, ^ $6 per month, and to be "treated as members of the family." The fir*n had headquarters in London. The agent gets $12 apiece for prodding each boy with a home. Their passage, whieh they pay themselves, is $75. When the boy gets here he finds that he pould have done it all himself, and that the promised situation is never forthcoming. Nearly forty cases have thua far been discovered.' MB. STANLEY, the explorer, says that the dandy in Africa is as interesting in his sight as bis giddier brethren of Eu­ rope and America. A lion a! in, a real lion skin, is spread out, a fat crimson bolster is in place of a chair of state, and a cflrcle of respectful principals are seated around. While yon are seated expectant of his appearance, the dude is touching himself up before a score of looking-glasses hanging around the walls of his house, straightening a hair here, giving another dab of ochre on his cheeks or forehead, a streak of yel­ low under an eye, a line of white under the other, the bridge of his nose colored still darker with powdered charcoal, a loving tap on his chignon, a smooth of a crease in his red blanket, and lo! the Afrioan dude stands before you. QrEER vestiges of old-time etiquette still linger in Virginia. It used to be, and in a measure is still, considered the height of rudeaess for one person in driving to pass another person on the road! As a result, the slowest coach on the road could keep all others be­ hind it; time and distance were rela­ tively of no importance. Even now the people apologize when they pass eaoh other on the road. It has also been alleged that a really high-bred Virgin­ ian never so far forgets etiquette as to inquire of a stranger where he is from, because the stranger might be forced to acknowledge that he is from some other State than Virginia, and it was only charity to spare him this mortifying admission. It is a hot­ ly-disputed point, and has been for the last 200 years, whether a guest spend­ ing the night with his host should make the move to go to bed, or whether the host should. • CHAHULEB ASP liAtfiT How tfce Michigan tnwttr gtMtoud the Piwtdcnt'i IN constructing fine houses in east­ ern cities builders now pretty gener­ ally use mineral wool between the floors and ceilings. This fibftms me­ tallic substance is produced by sending a blast of air or steam through a jet of molten slag when it flows from the furnace. Having sustained the heat of fused iron, it is non-combustible, and free from organic matter, so that it can not rot or harbor any vermin. It is completely sound-proof, and may be termed an absolute non-conductor of heat, for a layer one inch in thickness, says our informant, may fuse on one side, while the other will remain cooL These properties, combined with its ex­ treme lightness, have, since its intro­ duction a few years ago as a good build­ ing material, made it a great favorite with architects and builders, and it is now largely used as a Bound and fire­ proof filling between floors and parti­ tions, and in attics to keep out heat and cold. JAPAN possesses at this moment 2,000 newspapers. Considering that not a single journal of any kind existed, or was thought of in the country twenty- five years ago, this rapid rise and spread of the newspaper press there is one of the most remarkable facts in the history of journalism. Japan now boasts of a greater number of news­ papers than either Italy or Austria, of more than Spain and Russia taken to­ gether, and of twice as many as the whole continent of Asia. The appetite of the Chinese for news is sufficiently fed by the Pekin Gazette--which is, in fact, not a newspaper at all--and tw<o small sheets published at Shanghai Corea possesses an official gazette since 1884, and nothing elae resembling a newspaper exists. The French have already started a paper in their new eolony--L'Avenir de Tong-king; but, as it is a purely French sheet, it can hardly contribute much to tbe enlight­ enment of tbe natives. The Persians are comparatively insensible to the fascinations of the daily paper. Hie six papers whieh they possess owe their existence to the reigning Shah, who is a man of letters himself, and composes poetry in his spare hours. The natives of India have a thousand newspapers. The Kext Greatest Reform. Truly, it is a very large thing, When one comes to reflect on it, that while society has progressed as regards health, comfort, and decency in every way, it has gone backwards as regards cheerful amusement, which is as neces­ sary a factor in a well-spent life, espe­ cially for women and the young, as any other. In early ages, in medieval times, and so on till within a century, people of all classes amused themselves in­ tensely with a heartiness and genial abandon such as no person now under­ stands. Much of it was cruel, much vulgar, but what I wonder at is that, with all our progressive morality, intelligence, and humanity, we have not known how to be joyous and refined. One by one fairs, and processions, and all kinds of out-of-door festivals have been voted low and given up. What gayety we have consists of high classical music in crowded halls, by gaslight, where one sits for hours in a pestilent atmosphere, to feel seedy all next day. In old times, the people generally took the day to amuse themselves. No one now could ever spare a day from business, so all pleasure goes on after office hours. The result is overstrung nerves, weakened eyesight, the living of two or three lives in one, but that one with 200 or 300 per cent., less real en­ joyment in it than people had in theirs of yore. The next, and greatest and best reform for mankind will be to find for it some way to be sociable and merry by daylight, in a healthy man­ ner.--Leland's Letter. "I RISE for information," said a mem­ ber of a town council. "I am very glad to hear it," said a bystander; "no man needs it more." AM ape is ridiculous by nature, bmt men become so by art and study. About the time the bill organizing the electoral commission was passed, Mr. Zach Chandler called a meeting of ihe Republican National Committee in lis library, and invited a large number of leading Ohio politicians, who were supposed to be Gov. Hayes' personal representatives, to be present After some ordinary business Mr. Chandler astonished everybody by offering his resignation as chairman of the commit­ tee, stating as the reason that it had become very apparent to him that he was not enjoying the confidence of the President-elect, and he presumed Gov. Hayes would prefer to have some other person in whom he had full confidence to manage his interests before the electoral commission. The consternation which was caused by this unexpected announcement is hard to describe. Gov. Hayes' friends, figuratively speaking, got down on their knees and besought iiim to reconsider his determination, but Chandler was indexible. They offered him all that could be offered in Hayes' name--posi­ tion, patronage, anything he could ask --if he would only continue to manage the campaign. Finally, Mr. Chandler said he would withdraw his resignation if certain condition were complied with, and the assurance was given readily. They were easy conditions, and involved no sacrifice upon the part of President Hayes or his friends. They were hon­ orable, legitimate in every sense, and should have been voluntary on the part of the Ohio men. ^Vhen these conditions were guaranteed, Mr.Chand­ ler withdrew his resignation and went to work. Their fulfillment was to have been immediate, but months passed, Hayes was inaugurated, Mr. Chandler bowed out of the Cabinet, his services ignored, his counsels rejected, and to the day of his death those assurances were never carried out. Their fulfill­ ment was never even begun. Chandler felt this very keenly, and did not hesi­ tate to denounce openly the men whose broken promises were the most regret­ ful, remembrances of his long career. From the time that he was relieved of his (duties at the Interior Depart­ ment by Secretary SchurZ until the 12th of November, 1877, Secretary Chandler did not enter the White House. It was a period of eighteen months, and he waa in Washington re­ peatedly during that time, but he did not call upon the President, nor hold any communication with him. He would recommend no one for office, and would say to people who sought his influenoe: "The President would not notice my wish if 1 should utter one. I have no influence with this administration." On the 12th of November, 1878, a news­ paper correspondent who knew Mr. Chandler well was quite astonished to see him coming out of the White House grounds, and expressed some surprise. He replied; "Come over to my house, and Pll tell you something." They went to his library, which was the front room of the basement in his house on H street, where he drew a chair up to the" fire, and, looking at the correspondent in a peculiarly earnest way, he said: "You want to know, I suppose, what I was at up there at the White House. I'll tell you. I have been trying to stiffen the President's baokbone." He said it very slowly, and repeated: "You needn't publish it; I am only telling you for your guidance. I came down here to Washington (I'm siok, and wasn't fit to come, to atiffen--the --President's--backbone." "Did you succeed?" asked the cor­ respondent "Never you mind; you wait awhile, my son, and then you go up and inter­ view Hayea You ask if he don't think his southern policy is about played out, and if ne don't think hanging rebels is better than giving them offices. Remember, now," continued Mr. Chan­ dler, "you're not to print anything about what I say; but I want to keep you posted, and before many days you'll hear something drop. Hayes is a square man." "When did you find that out?" asked the correspondent "I found it out to­ day. 1 heard that Hayes was sick of his sentimentalism, and I came down here to give him a tonic. I didn't come for nothing, and now, my son, you mark these words: Before Hayes gets through with the Presidency he will be a blacker Republican that I am." Sure enough, two days after that conversation there appeared an inter­ view with President Hayes, in which he announced what was practically a change of policy toward the South. This was the work of District Attorney Leonard, of Louisiana, who was here receiving instructions as to the White League prosecutions in that State. As suggested, I, the correspondent, went to see the President, and he ex­ pressed a very decided determination to prosecute the perpetrators of the outrage in the South, and indicated a very different line of policy toward that section than he had followed in the past This was the beginning of the restoration of harmony between the President ml his party.--Ben. Perley Poore. "* The Whale a* a Land Animal. "What was the probable origin of whales?" The evidence is absolutely conclusive that they were not origin­ ally aquatio in habit but are derived from terrestrial mammals of fairly high organization, belonging to the placental division of the class, animals in which a hairy covering was devel­ oped, and with sense organs, especially that of smell, adapted for living on land; animals, moreover, with /our completely developed pairs of limbs on the type on the higher vertebrate and not that of fishes. One of the methods by which a land mammal may have been changed into an aquatic one is clearly shown in the states which still survice among the carnivora. The seals are obviously modifications of the land carnivora, the Otaria, or Bea lions and sea beasts, being curiously intermediate. Many naturalists have been tempted to think that the whale represents a still further stage of the same kind of mod­ ification. But there is to my mind a fatal objection to this view. The seal, of course, has much in common with the whale, inasmuch as it is a mammal adapted for an aquatic life, but it has been converted to its general fish-like form by the peculiar development of its hind limbs into instruments of pro­ pulsion through the water; for, though the thighs and legs are small, the feet are large, and are the special organs of locomotion in the water, the tail being quite rudimentary. In the whales the hind limbs are aborted, and the tail de­ veloped into a powerful Bwimming or­ gan. Now it iB very difficult to suppose that when the hind limbs had once be­ come so well adapted to a function so essential to the welfare of the animal as that of swimming, they could never have become reduced and their action tmurtMKfed to the It is far more reasonable to suppose that whales are derived from animals with large tails, which were used in swimming, eventu­ ally with such effect that the hind limbs became no Imager necessary, and so gradually disappeared. The powerful tail, with lateral, cstaafoqi flanges, of an American species ot otter (Ptero- aura sandbachii), or the still more familiar tail of the beaver, may give some idea.of this member in the primi­ tive Cetacea.--Prof. W. S, Flow* - # 2-4J The Battle off U Tn the year of 1884 there chanced ono of the strangest battles ever re­ corded in history. Search, as you may, the annals of every country, none like it--to the knowledge of the writer-- have ever been in print. So strango aud unlike other contests was this one, that the witnesses were but few, and half of those oi the weaker sex. The night was dark and stormy; the wind whistled around the houses, threatening, by its shrieks and howls, to undermine fheir very foundations; the ocean dashed upon the rocky ooaat, spending its wild fury in geysers of spray; the trees moaned and sighed heavily; the angry clouds shot now and then from the blaokest among them vivid streaks of lightning, which were followed by the mos£ terrific peals of thunder; the rain descended in such torrents as might shake the great faith that man imposes in the covenant set in the heavens. But the time and place of this most uncommon of battles had been decided, and not even the dread­ ful elements of nature turned the dicis- ion. The battlefield was smooth. No trees waved encouragement to the op­ posed forces; no kindly shrubs were there to hide some homesick, timid sol­ dier ; not even a rock or stone could be seen throughout the field. The camp fires, if there had been any, were care­ fully covered. No white tents dotted the surrounding-place; no laughter and jesting of the careless, reckless sol­ dier; no prayers of the fearful could be heard. The enemies were drawn up in regular line, having exactly the same number on both aides to a man. No banners and flags waved over the heads of the hosts; no dang of armor turned fainting hearts cold with dread; no clarion rang out to vie with the blasts of the night wind; both drum and pipe were dumb. The usual heavy tread of armies was BO muffled and so still that, had the night been calm as a summer's moonlight eve, scarcely a noise would have been perceptible. There were no spies lurking in hidden £laces; no scouts sent out to ' bring ack a good or evil report. Indeed, the whole battle-field was lighted by the inost brilliant electric light But see; now they begin to advance. Where are the captains and commanders? Who is to urge them on or sound a re­ treat? Where is the cavalry; and where the light horsemen ? The sol diers are all equal in rank. No one to say what the other shall do, but each one to guard his own plumeless head and each one to defend his own shield- less breast They meet bravely; they fight with weapons unseen. One--two men fall; bnt there is not a cry nor a murmur. Nor imprecations, no wails for mercy, no quarter is asked' and no quarter is given; the fallen soldiers are removed from the field the moment they are stricken, and not a trace of blood is left on the fatal spot. At last, one brave man burets the front rank of his foe; but no oommands of "for­ ward," no shouts of victory rend the air. And now the contest is thick, the wavering side is almost vanquished, when lol from out of their number comes one whom all seem to fear-- higher in stature, greater in strength, he smites the seemingly victorious army; the discouraged men rally about him, and soon they win the field. No huzzas ring out on the air; but quietly, and without excitement, the two armies retire to their quarters with the same phlegm and apparent unconsciousness with which they had taken the field. * ft ft ft "Well, Hal," said Kitty, as she closed the checker-board, "you beat me to­ night but you won't do jt again."-- Lynn Saturday Union. --: f- Dyeing Silk. Dyeing is always a hand process, as the color Of a dyer's hand suggests, and here machinery does not attempt to in­ terfere. Long troughs fill the sloppy and steamy room, in which the great skeins of silk yarn are dipped from cross-sticks, by partly-colored human beings, who move them occasionally to and fro to make sure all parts have a fair chance. The muddy hues suggest little of the brilliancy of color that is to be the glory of the completed fabric, and we will not enter into an^ trade secrets of their composition. Bi|t there is good dyeing and bad dyeing, honest dyeing and false dyeing, and a silk- maker who has intent to deceive can make his yarn take 300 per cent extra weight by the use of metallic substances in the dye-pot. This accounts for some of the cheapness, as well as the bad wear, of certain foreign fabrics, which look as well at first sight as goods at a much higher price. Some of the foreign black silks are so highly "loaded" with nitrate of iron as to give color to the belief in "spontaneous combustion" in silk, which caused the North German Steamship Company, in 1879, to refuse the weightier foreign silks. The carbon of the silk and the nitrate make a compound closely par­ allel to gun-cotton, which is simply cotton fibre soaked with nitric acid. American manufacturers challenge con­ sumers to test the purity of their fab­ rics, which may be doi.e by ravelling the silks into threads. If heavily loaded, they will break easily, feel rough to the touch because of the par­ ticles of dye, taste inky to the tongue, and burn smoulderingly into a yellow, greasy ash, instead of crisply into al­ most nothing. _ These are tests lady buyers of a silk dress should not forget The range of tint in colored silks is re­ mark able, 'and the variety of shade re­ quired from yeai' to year by fashion makes a curious pictorial history of the time3. One detler at the Centennial showed a rainbow in silk threads.-- Hmpfpmgaiine. ^ J01WJ 9fKBflttAÎ 9 RtPLY. The Old WkMl-HotM Mil Amnnc to Oar. •oatty'a Fainting. A timid person sees, perchance, some accident in which human lifo is possi­ bly sacrificed, or the sensibilities are otherwise shocked. His feelings over­ come him, and he faints. How are we to explain it? Let us see what takes place. The impression upon the brain made by the organ of sight creates (through the agency of special centres in the organ of the mind), an influence upon the heart and the blood-vessels of the brain. This results in a decrease in the amount of blood sent to the brain, and causes a loss of conscious­ ness. In the same way persons become dizzy when looking at a water-fall, or from a height, through the effects of the organs of. the sight upon the brain. Dr. A. L. Ranney, in Harper'* Maga­ zine. BsassKa VifltattM of Our Colored Cttisem' Bfgfati in the South Plainly Shown Up. jo Governor astho end of the Colored ? Marl. A dispatch from Lebanon, O., says that Sena­ tor Sherman spoke before a large assemblage In answer to Governor Hoadly's speech, made at Hamilton. Mr. Sherman said that he alwavs desired, in the disenssten ot public questions, to get directly at the issues in which, for the time being, the public took the deepest interest, and, as Governor Hoadly had undertaken in hia re­ cent speech at Hamilton to reply to some re­ marks made bv li.m at Alt. tiilead, he would call attent ion to some Darts of Governor Hoadly'a speech as the beat means possible of ascertain­ ing the position of the Democratic narty in this canvass. I wish to answer GOT. Hoadly with all the re­ spect due to his high office and his personal character and ability. 1 do not think he fairly maintains his reputa­ tion in hia recent speech at Hamilton, but I can forgive him to some extent by reason of hia present political associations. I think he owed it to his past record, and, I believe, hie consci­ entious conviction, to answer arguments rather than to evade or avoid the position of his ad­ versaries by cant phrases about the bloody shirt and the like. 1 will do what I can to see that he shall understand distinctly the issue we present to him, and 1 how he will meet it. In his ai eech he has not fairly stated my po­ sition. Ui on the imjtortant issues growing out of the condition of affairs in the South, he has evaded and avoided, with the skill of a lawyer, in a way practically to admit all 1 claim, and this is the less exctisjble in liiin, for during the greater portion of the long struggle in respect to slavery he was a Republican, and agreed with me on the issues of the war. He claims to be the friend of the colored people, but does not do them the justice to truly state the injustice done them according to his own well-considered opinions in the past. In my speech at Mount (IIlead 1 stated that the war was over, and that 1 was willing to for­ give and forget all that the rebels did in the war, and only demanded what was fairlv won by the Union soldiers as the results of the war." He agreed with me in support ng all the constitu­ tional amendments, and all I asK, or have ever asked. Is that they shall be fairly observed and enforced. Six million people vjere emancipated and enfranchised by the war, and the amend­ ments made with his lieartv approval, and as a result of this they were entitled to vote and were granted representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. They have been practi­ cally denied many of the neci ssary incidents of liberty, among the moat precious of which is the right to free discussion, and they are now dis­ franchised, and thua, openly and boldly, depriv­ ed of all the safeguards by which a!one their liberties can be preserved. He does not deny this. If he did. then the proof ia so clear upon the records that the argument between us would soon be ended. At first they were exclnded from the franchise by acts ot violence, amount­ ing in thousands of cases to mnrder, in the States where they were largely in the majority, but where, from their feebleness and want of discipline and orga nization, they were power­ less to resist. By such means the Democratic party obtained absolute power, and then, though the violence became less, the disfran­ chisement of the colored people became abso­ lute and complete by fraud so gross and univer­ sal that In scarcely a district in the bouth was there any prfcten«e of a fa r election. In some cases election districts were organ­ ized so that the negro could not vote. In others they were openly cheated and defrauded by the use of tissue ballots, and by every device which the ingenuity of crime could in­ vent. These fai t* were over and over again ad­ mitted and justified on the ground that the white people of the South would not submit to what they chose to call "negro rule." The re­ sult Is a complete and effective disfranchise­ ment of the colored people in every district where their votes would probably change the result. Can Governor Hoadly deny thia in the fa. e of the accumulated testimony known to him perfectly well? He does not attempt to deny it, and yet he pretends to be the friend of the colored man. but not only is this unjust to the colored men, but it ia unjust to the white men of the North. Thirty-eight members of Congress and of the Electoral College are based upon the six million of colored people in the South. The effect of the crimes 1 have mentioned is to confer upon the white people of the South not only the num­ ber of votes to which they are entitled for the white population, but also the thirty-eight votes based upon the colored population, and, in this way, tn some of the Southern states, every white voter posst Bses the political power of two white voters in the Northern States. The colored people have, practically, no voice in Congress and no voice in the Electoral College. Mr. Cleveland is now President of the I' nited States instead of James G. Blaine by reason of these crimes. I claim that this should be corrected. An In­ justice so gross and palpable will not be sub­ mitted to by the colored people of the South, nor by fair-minded white men in the South who hate wrong and injustice, nor bv the great body of the Northern people, by whose sacrifices in the I'nlon cause the war was brought to a suc­ cessful termination. It will not be submitted to, and Governor Hoadly, from his former po­ sition, ought to be one of the first to demand and insist upon a remedy, and not avoid or be­ little it bv cant phrases. 1 confess there are difficulties in the way of a proper settlement. This may be brought about lirst by an ai peal to the South to (orrect an infustice and wrong which will, as long as it lasts, tend to make our politics sectional and Inspire the same resistance to the Democratic party encountered at thj beginning of the war. In every State of the South there are thousands of patriotic men who feel as 1 do about it, and they would make their voice heard but for an aggressive and intolerant sentiment which will not even allow discussion of the subject or the formation of pai ties in the South based npon this issue. Still, this appeal has been made, and will continue to be made, in several of the States, and especially in Virginia and North Carolina. In South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and perhaps in other States, a fair election would at ouce correct this evil; but it will be resisted, as a matter of course, by the dominant elements that now control tbe South. In Virginia and North Carolina a distinct pres­ entation of these questions, followed by a fair flection, would, as shown by the returns of the recent election, place these two powerful States upon the side of justice and right. We will, as A matter of course, be resisted by most of the lawless elements of the South and by the Dem­ ocratic party in the North, which is now, as it has always been, absolutely opposed to the rights of any portion.of our people where these stand in the way of th'eir success. If the policy of the paat is to be puraued, and there is no redress for the colored people of the Sedth tor these offenses, committed under the culor of State laws, then, under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, we may fairlv appeal to all tbe Northern States to st nd to- i gether to reduce the representation based upon the colored vote, and on thia question Governor 1 Hoadly ought to be where he was during the I again repeat the substance of what I said at Mt. Gilead, that the issues of the war will never end until every man in the country who by the Constitution is entitled to vote in any State shall be able freely to exercise that right, and to have his vote fairly counted, and the sym­ pathy of every just man who has any respect for the obligations of the Constitution or of duty or honor, ought to be on the side of the Republican party. "That this question is exciting the careful con­ sideration of reflecting men in tbe Sonth ia shown in tbe discussion of many of the South­ ern papers, and. very clearly, in recent articles In the ' entury magazine, written by Southern men. Mr. George W. Cable, in the January number of that magazine, says of the negro: There is scarcely one pi^blie^relatfon of life in the South where he is no(yn biti arily and un­ lawfully compelled to hola toward the whits man the attitude of an alien, a menial, aud a probable reprobate, by reason of his race aqd color. One of the marvels of future history will be that it was counted a small matter by a majority of our nation for six millions of peo­ ple within it, made by its own decree a cotnjio- nent part of it, to lie subjected to a system of op­ pression so rank that nothing could make it seem small except the f act that they had already been ground under for a century and a half. » • * » « # « "Were we whites of the South to remain every way as we arc and our six million blacks to give place to any sort of whites exactly their equal man for man, in mind, morals, aijd wealth, provided only that thev have tast'd two years of American freedom, aud were this same system of tyrannies attempted upon them, there would be as bloody au uprising as this continent has ever seen." When we reflect that this gross oppression of the colored people is accompanied by inequality Of the representation between the whites of the ; North and the South, it Is easy to prophesy that the time is not far distant when both will be • corrected in spite of the jeers ot politicians. The unnatural position of the solid South, J made so by crimes and violence, is now exciting j the attention of conservative and business men in every Southern State. The contest now going on in Virginia is led by prominent leaders in j the rebel arinv, and the issue distinctly made is j for the equal politl al rights of all citizens and | a liberal policy for the protection and develop­ ment of internal resources. Every Republican and every moderate Democrat who regards the interests'of his country more than the interests of his party must deeply sympathize with the men leading in thia movement, though nearly all of them were Confederate soldiers. Gov­ ernor Hoadly does not seem to understand the distinction between a man who openly d •clares that he regards .Tf iferaon Davis as a patriot, and who favors the Mississippi policy, aud a man who is willing to acknowlege all the results of the war, and to fa thfully obey and support the constitutional amendments. He can not under­ stand the difit.ence between the leaders of the Kuklux Klan and such men as Key and Aker- man. who did all they could to put down the Hoadly, claiming to be a Msad people, is in peUtloalMsoeiatloa who burns school-houses, _•» iding people, ch« . artons devices, Ujpirrlghta. He ma IHfcwnt frauds at Um wMieveqr offending people,cheat* attK êlfiSSS ̂ _ _ paltoe officer who, wltho«t authority olaiw, 2r- rsstsd more than one hundred voters sad Kept thfem confined bevona the reach ot habeas oor- iras,mwely to deprive themof the rtaM to vote. I am willing to maintain political fellowship wild every man. North or South, whatever part he may have taken in the war. provided he will be true and faithful to the oonstttntloaal amendments and to the rights ot his fellow men, while Gov. Hoadlv is now in political as­ sociation with every man who has violated these rights. Mr. Sherman then proceeded to discuss the temperance and other questions, giving a ful review of the decisions in the liquor < maintaining that the Scott law was not only constitutional, but had been so declared by the Supreme Court after the fuUest examination, and its reversal on a collateral point was purely a partisan decision, made to relieve the Legis­ lature from its promises and embarrassments. THE IOWA CAMPAIGN. An Earnest Flea for Republican Unity Since the Confederacy's 8nooess. 'the flollowness i Temperance Scheme--Instruc­ tive Comparisons. An Able Speech Delivered by State Sen­ ator P. K. 8utton, at Lydi| Iowa. The Democratic party for the last twenty-five years has been merely a party of resistance--it has resisted every one of the historical events of the last quarter of a century which have giv­ en to the nation its new and higher character. So long as it was a party of opposition onlv its characteristics were not considered worthy of very grave consideration. But now it has "be­ come the governing party. The Government for four years must remain in its hands, and while it remains the governing party it must impress its mature upon \ every element of the impress its natui nation. While it wis th pleased to over the irreapbnsible party we were erlook its weaknesses and its faults, feeling that it could do but little harm and hoping that it might die or else put on a new a id better life. The world long supposed the Democratic party was dead. The Demo­ cratic i>arty once thought itself to be dead. But, to the surprise of the world and to itself, it still lives, the same party that it was before the war, and beholds itself now the controlling party of the country. And it becomes our duty to discuss its characteristics in plain, honest words aud without reserve. I believe it to be utterly unworthy of the trust it holds, and that it deserves to be impeached by the people of this country, and for causes which fairly appeal to every patriotic mind and heart. For it Is an uni>atriotic party and a dishonest party. It is not in sympathy with the national pride of this country, and it has obtained control of the country by false pretenses and fraud. The very soul ot the Democratic partv Is poi­ soned against our national glory. It is the old spirit of the Southern States that survived after the IKKIV of the Con e ieracy was put in its grave. This and nothing else kept the Demo­ cratic party alive. In it alone ex-Confederates have found an excuse for the Confederacy. And for that reason t'he solid South has clung to the Democratic party with the same persistency with which it has clung to the lost cause. Seces­ sion was the logical result of Calhoun's inter­ pretation of Thomas Jefferson. Caihounism was the soul of the Democratic party in 1H5;, and the last Democratic National Convention at Chicago reaffirmed the cardinal principles of Democratic faith as declared in the Democratic platform of lxsti. It did so in ex­ press words, and it did so to enable the South to say to its sons: "We stand now in tbe Demo­ cratic party just where we stood in 1856." Ex- Confederates everywhere say they were com­ pelled to surrender, but insist that they were right; and base their assumption upon the car­ dinal pr.nciples of the Democratic party before the war, reaffirmed by the Democratic paity of 188 i. The Confederate Democracy is the control­ ling part of the Democratic party, and no great favor can be expected from that party exqept by they who indulge the Confederate Demo­ crats in their assumption that secession was right, and we see the Northern Democracy nom­ inating to office in the nation and in onr State, and tor the highest positions, only snoh men as took no active part against the South during the rebellion. The North, by forgiveness ana charity unparalleled in the history of the world, has s ught to unite the Confederate people With the Union npon some patriotic basts. And while the North has no desire to keep alive the un­ pleasant memories of the rebellion It cannot in justice or honor surrender the cause for which its sons died. If patriotism rather than disre­ gard is t > be cultivated by the American people, then the Democratic party must be defeated. At the close of the war for the Union the patriotic party of this country made it a funda­ mental principle of its Government that no one should be permitted to hold office under the Government unless true in act and faith to tbe cause of the I'nion. They therefore provided by the fourteenth amendment that no person who had violated an oath of office by engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the Govern­ ment should hold any office, civil or military, under the I'nlted States, unless permitted to do so by a two-thirds vote of each house of Con­ gress. Congress provided that disabled ex-Con­ federates might remove their own disability by making oath that they would bear "true faith and allegiance " to the Government. The Gov­ ernment simply demanded that self-perjured ex-Confederates should renounce their treason bef ore God before again assuming the rights of citizenship; that they should swear true faith and allegiance to the Government which had preserved the Union of the States at the sacri­ fice of untold blood and treasure. " True faith and allegiance" mean that the North was right and the South wrong. '* Faith" means more than allegiance, and every ex-Confederate who took the test-oath swore that he possessed the faith. Now, we all remember and must know that Lamar and Garland and nearly the whole line of Confederate officials took that oath with a lie upon their lips, falsely pretending a faith they did not possess aud promising an al­ legiance which they did not intend. They did this for the sole purpose of stealing a power perjury. The oath was hardly cold upon their lips until in the very places they stole by false pretenses they declared they had done no wrong; that the South had done nothing it should be condemned for, or that it needed to apologize for. In this spirit the unrepentant chieftain of the Confederacy was eulogized as patriot on the floors of Congress. The unrepentant South stole political power by false pretenses, and then extended that power by methods still more reprehensible. It seized the polls of the Confederate States, and by conspiracy and fraud, and by intimidation and luansacre made, the emancipated freeiliuan a political slave, and robbed him of the vote the nation gave him, and to this day they keep that stolen vote to their own use and benefit. Beginning with political perjury and per­ severing through political robbery and murder, they established themselves in every one of the Confelerate States. Then they rcached out their hands to the North for help again. Look at their Northern allies. They embrace the thugs, the thieves, and political ciiminals ot our cities, the Copperhead Democrats and the po­ litical tricksters and demagogues of all parties. They have stolen citizenship, they have stolen the Confederate States, they have stolen New York by a false pretense of civil-service reform, and now they propose to steal Iowa, the banner Republican State of then atlon, by the boldest fraud yet attempted. They propose to steal Iowa by a pretense of temperance reform. This pretense is made for the purpose of securing temperance votes for the benefit "of the saloon. They propose a law that is wholly in the interest of the saloon, and the saloons are giving it their money and sup­ port, and yet they have the unprecedented effrontery to call it a temperance law. They thus try to steal the livery of temperance to serve the saloon in. They propose a temper­ ance law so plainly in the interest of the saloon tnat it woul<i be rejected by the Democratic party of every other State in the Union. It is an insHlt to every Interest in our State except the liiiuor interest." A coinr arison of this law with the liquor lawa of even the worst Demo­ cratic States of this country ought to bring the blush of shame even to the cheek of Geu. Wea­ ver. The Democratic party has given whole­ some temperance laws to nearly all its States, including Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri, and Kentucky. And now it proposes to punish Republican Iowa by inflicting upon it a liquor law that an/of tlie Southern States would re­ ject with indignation. Can any good reason be assigned why Iowa should not have as good a temperance law as Kentucky? Iowa although much younger, has a popu­ lation equal to Kentucky. And in everything else aside from mere population, Iowa has greatlv outstripped Kentucky. Kentucky has •jos.oO'i inhabitants over lu years of age who can neither read nor write. Iowa has only 28,000. Thus you will see that Iowa is ten times as in­ telligent as Kentucky. Is that a reason why Iowa should be cursed with a law that Kentucky would spurn ." Again, Iowa has twice the amount ot improved farming lands that Kentucky has. It extends three times the amount of money in public education, vet Iowa is practically out of debt, while Kentuky has a public debt of over £500,000. Aud the rate of taxation in Iowa is less than one-third of the rate of taxation in Ken­ tucky. And our State buildings are far superior and all our public institutions in much better condition than those of Kentucky.; 1 he people of Kentucky are given almost entirelv to the pro­ duction of tobacco and whisky, while the peo­ ple of Iowa are employed in the raising of bread-tuffs and meats and in the manufacture of most staple and useful articles. In every re- spect-- politically, socially and financially--Iowa stands far in advance ot Kentucky. And yet Weaver, Gillette, and Whiting would foist npon purpo which had been lost by disloyalty, and which could not_ be regained except by political BUM cnawwieeseoeaea, ana > rood to secede again, to te. f »ws than proud, loyal, as3 out one-half of the inhabit-! for they th--isuliuu have stsmei§jw*®il over the platform which they aup- P What has Iowa done that It la not entitled astoodttmsvasM law a» South Omliitf Has not Iowa oeen as loyal? Has it not been as patriotic and true to ths rights and bberties of its peogile? Is ths State thafctineeseoeded, ana that is not a bit too | blessed with better! faithful Iowa? About < ants of Sonth Carolina o ver ten yean of ag neither read nor write. All told. It has less than tsoo.ooo invested in sohool ptopesty. Iowa hair over $9,500,000. Sonth Carolina expends only S3&.000 annually in public education. Iowaex* pends $4,333,000. The rate of taxation in low% however, is onlyabont one-half what it is hi South Carolina, In patriotisms, a " wealth, and everything that makes i and prosperoua people Iowa stands above South Carolina. Not withstand Weaver, Gillette, and Whiting propose i law for Iowa that the ignorant an ~ State of South Carolina would reject i and a disgrace. No saloonkeeper or other per- son can for lg,e or money set a Ueenae for sell* lug intoxicating liquors anywhere in the State ot South Carolina outside of regularly taMoc porated police towns, nur in any of the incor­ porated towns against the wishes of tbe neoi And yet these fusion demagogues propose ai for Iowa that win permit any man whomsoe to buy a license and open a saloon in front any roan's door in the State, whether in conn? try, town, or city, ^ * Now look at Missouri. Iowa has lived side by \ side with it since we were born Into the irtntW' ̂ hood of States. Now I ask. in all kindness an* reason, has not Iowa been as faithful, and is m " v not as worthy as Missouri, and is it not willtlejl to as good and wholesome laws? Missouri haa * 138,000 over 10 years of age who oan neither rssa • •or write; an even lio.ouo more than Iowa. Mia* sourl lias a State tax of 14,000.000. Iowa pajrt all its expenses as they accrue. Its public builds lugs and institutions far excel those of Miseounk ami yet the rate of taxation In Missouri is twis# ss great as the rate of taxation in Iowa. Iowa has always been noted for the law-abiding chat ̂ ';v :- acter of its people, while outlawry bees openly protected in parts of Missouri. souri's principal heroes slnoe the war have boon ' ' its train wreokers and robbers. If you were te I select two States, one the proudest and the otlwr " the most miserable of all the States, you wool# probably select Iowa and Missouri. Iowa is a synonym of intelligence, industry, economy, and happiness. Missouri always sugy ; gests ignorance, depravity, want, and miseryv So thoroughly has the miserable condition o(t Missouti been published that Its people acf * often spoken of as "Pukes," and yet the "Pnlnraf "*• of Missouri would spew out of thetr mouthsthte " eaver, Gillette, and Whiting saloon law as aftî - . outrage upon the decency even of that miser* " - able State. No saloon-keeper can secure a II* • cense anywhere in the State of Missouri without . - the written permission of two-thirds of thotaz*'/ ' paying citizens of the municipal precinct, or ini# corpora ted town, or square, u it be a city, where ' y f s the party desires to sell. Even with this ooar sent of the people, a license cannot be had ft* less than $550 nor until ths party has given bond in the sum of $2,000, undertaking that ~ will not sell on Sunday, that he will sell to any minor nor to any in the habit of becoming Intfmiî .un. ̂ and that he will pay all fines and dtiB^CF ages lega ly assessed against him. Undo** this law the people of Missouri have absolutely prohibited saloons in eighteen entire counties and in sixty incorporated towns in other conn* ties. The people of Missouri are given the ab¥ solute right to prohibit license in every locality upon the objection of one-third of the taxi log citizens. Weaver, Gillette, and Whfi propose a saloon law for Iowa whereby the i of the saloonkeeper to sell intoxicating Mqu is made absolutely irresistible. The saloon* keeper, under the law whioh they propose, can. for I'IFIO to $1,000, establish his saloon anywhero in the State, and this law will protect and sua* tain him in the traffic, in absolute disregard i the wishes of the people. Tbe authors of < ~ law admit that it commits them to the 1 of the saloon, and they offer noaixdogr for cept that tbey have to join hands Wltfr the *a» * V : _ loon in order to defeat the Republican ' ' il party of this State. When did Weavec, Glllett& = ' and Whiting first find tnat reform eonla be had; • only at the door of a saloon? Was there ever a pretense of reform so abomlnaUytaise as thia fusion pretense of temperance? They propoas to absolutely hind the people of Iowa to the feet of the saloon powerof the State for somany dollars and cents. Whenever Iowa votes this fusion ticket it votes upon itself this saloon law. For fusion is pledged to its enaoUnenfr Whenever Iowa geta so far beside 1 self and aia, far forgets its uood name and protid history aF to vote upon itself such a disgrM*,then let it be said that Iowa it ready for the lunatic asylum, and let Weaver be crowned its king. Bnt tuf will never be. The people of Iowa have not, oome to any such pass. Weaver has won hia last political battle. He has unmasked htm suit at last, and he now stands out in his true cha» , acter, and he and his infamous law wfll bo burled so deep in November that his disgrace* ful experiment will never acam be repeated ifiir; the history of our State. • • THE BLOODY SHIRT. Senator Sherman Not Frightened fcjr tKfit ' Yawp of Democrats and Children. > John Sherman, in an interview Xetes Register, says: "The so-catieit bloody-shirt issue I regard as by tea tl# most important before the American pe»> pie. It can not be sneered down nor drives from public view by cant phrases and dem|> agogism. I think' Gov. Hoadly will bit compelled either to admit the suppression of the colored vote and adopt the Demo# , cratic argument of inatification or deny the truth of what his Democratic friends ifi the Sonth freely admit. He can not do thaf former because of his own abolition reo|, ord, and I should be well pleased to hav# him attempt the latter. The qnestioi has nothing to do with war isnta , It is a living question. 8hall on$ white man in Mississippi wield twice of/, three times the influence in national aflhirf wielded by one white man in Ohio? WheA' men tell me that it is impolitic to call^at* tention to such monstrous unfairness, n<|. that to oppose such rank injustice is tyjT risk party defeat, I answer bjr laying if th|f Republican party has no longer •Mt courage to defend the right and insist npo£ , justice and equality of sections of th# :v Cuion, it ougpt to be defeated. I half rather be permanently retired from publia, life than seem by silence to consent to the. t suppression of the colored vote in theJ South, and the injustice resulting there# from to all parts of the conutry. Ik| Vff Northern people are fully awake to th* importance or this issue. I deem it • patriotic duty to arouse the public con*. \ science on a question of such vital and faf^|4f> reaching importance, and I shall not be de« * terred from so doing by consideration of^ mere policy."--Georgetown (t>.) special. * V ^ This Is Indeed Rebml Among the clerks discharged from th* £ Treasury last week was Mrs. Mary E. Kail,^ 1 of Ohio. Mrs. Kali is a well-known ladjj , ^ of literary ability and author of ssfcreiat ' poems of merit. She is poor, and with her ' children depending upon her salary for % < ± living. She went to Auditor John S. Wilj . > liams to see if her case was hopeless ana " ask why she was discharged. j . "Because you are an offensive partisan, was the reply, with the roughness and im-^,, , -jf. politeness characteristic of Mr. Williams. "Was 1 not efficient and faithful, andt;s "^ was not my work satisfactory?" asked Mrs.f ^ * "Certainly. No complaints to make. .J* * You are simply put out because, as I tell? '-5; you, you have been an offensive paitisan.'V "In what did my offensive partisanship^ consist?" was Mrs. Kail's next question. ' * "You w*rote a campaign song for the Re­ publican party in Ohio," was the reply. "Good-day."--Washington special. •- : ; . % LET Democrats AND mugwumps go ON • with their sneering at* "the bloody shirt.\ v. Having no other answer to the most serious; ^ : charge--with but a single exception--that * has ever been preferred against any party in the United States, their only recourse isi a stereotyped sneer. It is a great thing--it is almost the sum of all things--to be right in alstruggle like this. A party whose feet are on the bed-rock of God's eternal jus- tice has no cause to fear for the ultimate re- suit of a coiillict with a party that wallows waist-deep in a quagmire of fnsd.-- National Republican. IF there is a leading, governing thought» or pnneiple in the llepubliesn party to- davit is that there shall be free and fair , suffrage everywhere, and before another Presidential election comes round it will : ba the issue upon which every Republican, * North and South, will be iu earnest ae- cord. To denounce men for pleading for equal suffrage--free and honest elections-- ; » is to plaoe one outside the £eputilioatt pttf.-Zpittsburgh Commercial GOMMA. .Afc-aA iu*. , i a. .i,....;..-....* ..... 'wrsi&f'igKP&'W