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3?" j THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB. ZtB Overwhelming Indorsement of the Republican Tickpt Despite Opposition. Slagfof Resolutions Adopted Setting Fttth the Beasons flnr 8»ri» iettp, is CvnisUkable Terns. -- -1'! rNew York special.] Disappointment waited upon the opponents of the Republican national ticket who were hoping thai at tbs regular meeting of the Union lieiutue Club tliis evening a formal approval of the nominations might be defeated. It was intensified by the iact that not even was there developed the hostile wrangling that thev longed for in case the complete success of the opposition was not realized. Not only was the Bepnblican ticket strongly approved, and by an overwhelming majority, but the lar«e attend­ ance, and the character of the men present, and the enthusiasm shown proved that the clnb was as heartily united in the support of the party as it has been in the past. The attempt to defeat ratification ot the ticket was confined to a tech­ nical objection, which was overruled by Wi lism M. Evarts, presiding officer, and tlie sentiment of the meeting was so strong that no appeal from the decision of the Chair was taken. The meeting ot the club had excited the ut­ most interest among the members because of the reported intention of some ot them to stltle the voioe of the organization, and the result was an attendance that had never been equaled at a previous meeting. At an early hour the arrivals W6T8 ztunicroo s, ant} hv s o'clock the spaciou* loom on the second floor of the building was filled with about 7<J0 men, out of an enrolled member­ ship of l,'2i:0. No doubt was expressed by the ""older members that a full force 01 the opposi­ tion was present, as it was known that diligent efforts had been made for some tinvi to secure the attendance of every person wlio from any zeason whatever objected to the liepublican nominees. Among those who participated in the dellber- " ations of the club were Mr Evarts, John Jacob Aator, John S. Kennedy, Justice Noah Davis, John A. Stewart, Jacob Wendell, Jackson 8. Sohultz, John M. Fiske, Charles L. Tiiiany, Bray ton Ives, Iiussell H. Hoailly, E. H. Ammi- dowu, Cornt lius N. Bliss, ex -Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell, Charles S. Smith, James M. Varnum, ex-Postmaster General Thomas L. James, Jesse fc'eligman, James H. Dunham, F. E. Trowbridge, Augustus Kountz, H. O. Armour, Charles E. Oretfory, George B. Butler, Thomas O. Acton, Joseph W. Howe, D. O. Mills. Wm. D. Sloaue, Henry C. Ward, J. Q. Riddle, Joseph Pool, Elihu Hoot, !•'. D. Lecomte, Walter Howe, Daniel X'". Applelon, William H. Lee, Joseph E. Gay, Benjamin Brewster. Henry Sloane, David Jfilllken, Dr. Argyle Watson, l'etcr C. Baker, George Montague, G. G. DeWitt, Jr., Vincenzo Botta, Thomas Denny, Henry Clews, F. B. Bangs, 8. V. li. Cruger, bi.muel Shether, Wm. Dowd, Georire F. Baxter, Joel B. Ehrardt, J. Henry Harper, John P. U'Connor, Jr., A. P. Han, James D. Smith, F. A. Potts, E. H. Per­ kins, Jr., Sinclair Toucey, Thomas IJ. Watson, ex-Judge Charles A. l'eabody. Dr. D. B. St. John Koosa, and many other prominent mem­ bers. The chair was occupied by Mr. Evarts, who, in the absence of Le Grrnd B. Cannon, pre­ sented a report and resolutions approving the nominations of Blaine and Logan from the committee of thirty which was appointed April 10. The rej>ort was as follows: NEW YORK, Oct. --1 he committee appointed at the last meeting of the club, made upon the nomination ot t;ie President and organized un­ der Col. Le Grand B. Cannon as Chairman, charged by the resolutions of this club with the duty of carrying out the purpose expressed by ^the club to exercise its influence to the end of //'maintaining the Republican party in power, have given their best attention to the csponsal and maintenance <jf the principles and the polit­ ical inte.ests of the Republican party during the pending canvass, first while the nomination of candidates for the offices ot President and Vice President of the United States was under delib­ eration, and since the nomination, in support­ ing the candidates of that party for their elec­ tion by the suffrage of the whole people of the country. Whatever diversity may have obtained among the members of the committee, or in the body Of the club itself, as to preferences among the -eminent candidates before the National Con­ vention ot the Republican party for nomina­ tion, this committee have felt that when the names of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan were annouueed by that conventii n to the Re­ publican party and to the people ot the whole country, as the standard-bearers of the Repub­ lican party in the pending contest for the pos­ session ot the executive power of the United States for the constitutional term, the adhesion, the support, the zealous loyalty, the united la­ bors ot the Union League Club, were, and of right should be, at the service of the Republican Snxty for maintaining it in power and efeatlng the Democratic party in its •efforts to regain it. Your committee .have pursued and are pursuing this -design, and have placed themselves in active association with the political organizations of the Republican party of the- nation and of the State, to aid in tlie labors and burdens of the party in its contests with the resolute and per­ sistent enemy, the Democratic party, which this •committee and the Union League Club con­ ceives to be hostile to the prosperity, welfare, and security of the American people. We may be permitted to point out some cf the great topics involved in the present campaign, and to be settled by the judgment of the people as to their treatment of the executive power during the next four years. Prominent, in these topics is the question of skil'ed labor in every form of industrial employment ami production by such distribution of foreign duties in im­ portation as will maintain a .d confirm at home the ra.es of wages suitable to our American JfiW system of labor aud citizenship against the ruinous competition of oppressed and degraded labor of foreign nations which desire the pos­ session of our markets. Permanence in this American system is expected to lie assured by the success of the Republican party at this elec­ tion, whereby the uuesilon will be removed from politic*, leaving only to Congress the de­ tails of a wise and proper application of the great principle which the will of the people Shall have established. On the other hand, tho success ot the Democratic party will plunge the country into a prolonged per.od of vicissitude and vacillation in tlie renewed agitation which, however interesting to politici ns, is fatal to progressive and material prosperity, to the con­ fidence of capital, and to the security of labor and its satisfactory wages. The restoration of a f dr enjoyment ot foreign carrying trade to our shipowners *nd merchants, the development of ship-buiMing Itself, the just maintenance of naval and military defense-- these are all public questions whicu divide the rival parties and distract and d. scour ace the enterprise of our people. To the Republican party as the avowed chafnpion of American in­ dustry and enterprise in every competition with loreign rivals, t he country looks for the advance­ ment and security ot these iutercsts: The sys­ tem of our finance, the stability of our cur­ rency and its free banking establishment, the reduction of the national debt, that the great nation--the first example in the history of the •world--shall be wholly free irom the vast bur­ den of debt imposed by the civil war through the honest payment, of every dollar--these in­ terests are, iu the judgment of prudent and pa­ triotic men, safe only in their further conduct of the Republican party, the author and defender of these great measures. The immense progress in the improved estab­ lishment of the civil service-- the growth ex­ clusively ot the evidence and policy of sagacious leaders of tho Republican party--the wide and firm hold upon the popular mind which this measure !ias gained undsr the persistent incul­ cation and illustration of the pregnant issues of this great reform, both In its aspects of public administration and polit cal morali y--the fate of this measure rests upon the continued con­ trol ot the Government by the liepublicau party. And, again, so long as the Democratic part y, in its political organisation and in its scheme and hope of gaining possession ot the execu­ tive power of the nation, is made up by an elec­ toral vote of 153 ot a consolidated South--non- political on any issues of the present or the future, and unpermeated by free discussion and law-protected suffrag.1-- and a mere possible contingent parcel of forty-eight electoral votes out of the treat North rn, energetic, independ­ ent, law-abidinst mass--dividing on all the is­ sues ot the present and of the lutnre and upheld in this freodom by th»> law-protected suffrage- no lover and loyal adherent of the Republican party, in i;s long career of honor aud of duty in the service of the country, can dream of seeing the transfer of political power from our party to the Democratic party as thus constituted. It, must be by Democratic strength, not by Repub­ lican caprice or snpineness, that these dang, rs are to be brought upon the country, if it is ever to feel this great disaster. Under these con- «i<1 rations your coaiuiittee submit to the club fc heir adoption the following resolutions: •solved. That in the opinion of the Union. | 1 rue Club of the city of New York, the raaln- P nee o; the Republican party in the posses- *f. J of the executive power of this country tor IV the next four years Is of vital importance to the well-being of the country, and its peaco, honor, and prosperity. Re.-toived, That the Union League Club urge Xi the committee and upon all its members a rous and persistent support of the Republi­ can canvass by every means and resource in their power from this day forward till the com­ pletion of the election, to the end that the suf­ frage of the country may place the great offices of President *nd Vice President in the hands of the candidates of the Republican party, James G. Blaine of Maine and John A. Logan of Illinois. i Resolved, That the committee be continued with instruct:ons to carry out to their best ability the purposes ot the club in the foregoing resolutions. CHEERS FOR BLAINE ANT) IVOOAN. When Mr. Evarts read the report the enthusi­ asm of the audience could not be controlled. The much-taliced-ot "battle" bftd been quietly fought an 1 won, and it was evident thar, with the parliamentary order settled, (Mr. P. J. 8chult7. having obj ?cted to their adoption and Mr. Evarts decid ng against the pointi.there was no doubt as to the result by a vote upon the re­ port. During the reading every mention of tho name of Mr. Bl iire and Ge i. Louan provoked cheers and applau e; every commendation of their character r achievements excited the greatest enthusiasm. Decorous old members got *lp on their chairs a-d waved their hits with delignt. When the motion was put upon storm of "yeas rose which threw into the shade the nay, that responded to the call for the negative. It was estimated that fully four-fifths of the, member* pr* sent voted yea, and even more liberal estimates were made byconserra- ttvemembers. The "nays" included the Demo- cratto member* of th* club* as well as the dis­ affected Republicans. A LETTER FROM NASBY. Giving His Reasons Why Blaine ̂ and Logan Should Not Be Elected. Wl k,<;-- The Boston Traveller recently sent out a cir­ cular letter to a large number of eminent per­ sons asking them this question: "Why Is the election of Blaine and Logan most desirable tor the country?" Among other great men ad­ dressed was the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasbv Ken­ tucky apostle of Bourbon Democracy". That eminent Democratic divine made the following response: _ CONFEDERIT X ROAD31 (Wich is in the State uv Kentucky), /• _ .. „„ Sent. 10,18S4. ) To the Edltur uv the Bostoa Traveller • You ask me to give my rezons why Blane A Logan shood be electid. Perhaps yoo ain't aware uv whom yoo make this rek. st Perhaps yoor letter wuz addrest to me by mistake, or, perhaps, yoo intend to be sarkastic. Kf you reely addrest the letter to me, it is a holier mockery. 1 see no rezons why Blaine and Logan shood be electid. Do you comprehend who I am, and wat 1 hev suffered fur Dunocrisy"' Do yoo ask one lor rezons for the elecshun uv Blane and Logan wich commenst his politikle career by votin for J axon, and who never diflerd with that grate man but wunst, and that, wuz wbon he put down Seceshn in South Karliny? Kin yoo ask fur rezons fur votin for Blane and Logan uv one wich cast his vote for every Dime- kratic Pres.dent troiu Jaxon down, au'd many times three or four? 1 am a Dimekrat. I votid for Bookannon, and when the Radikels percipitated a war by re- foosin to give up Fort Sumter I emisratid from Noo Jersey to Kentucky that I mite not be tout to take up arms agin the Dimekratic States. 1 wuz, however, dratted into the confedrit servis, fiom which 1 desertid, not becoz 1 hed any objeckshun to the caz, but from a con- stooshnel dislike of gunpowder and baynits. But in doertin the Confederacy I avoided the scylla uv the Confedrit servis only to bump up agin the karybdis uv tedrel muskit carryin. I wuz drafted into the fedral army, and only es­ caped shedding fratrisidle blood by desertin one night to i anady. Who kin descr be the agonies eudoored by myself and live others on a tem- p stuous nite on Lake Erie in a open boat! Who shel describe the deep disgust that awaited me on the sakred sile ot' ( anady when I wuz com­ pelled to work fur a nisger there or starve. The fust ray of sunshine wicii ever illumined my dreery path, wuz when Jonson split with the radikels and give me the postoffis at the Cross­ roads! That wuz a little heaven below. The salary wuzn't much, but I managed IO subsist by stoppin the letters containing remittances for lottery tikkets, which 1 did on moral grounds, spending the contence thereof myself, ez a pun­ ishment to the senders. They laid the swindle to tho lottery companies. But my zeal lor re­ form worked agin my own interests, for after awhile the people stopt mailin ther money. But I hev ailuz bin a marter to principle. Wat wuz Plane doin all th s time?' He wuz the rita hand uv the tirent Linkin and wuz foremost among the persek otere uv the South. Logan! My gorge rises when I think uv him! My regiment, the Loo meaner Pelikins, wu* afore him wunst, and I never want to heer his name. Gittin uway from him and his deloodid so I j era kep me in a swamp four days and nites, wich give me a roomatism, wich still inkapasi- tates me from labor, and the Fedrel Govern­ ment wich thus rooitiecl me, physikelly, refooses to give me a penshun to soothe my declining yeers. Will Blane and Logan, ef they are elected, put us Confedrit soljers on a level with the Fedrel survivors in the matter of penshuns? Deekin Pograin and lssaker Gavitt want to know ef they will remoonerate 'em for the niggers wich thev freed, not only despoilln' em uv their property but dlspersln' their sons and dawters to the four quarters uv the globe? The last time I wuz in Cincinnati with Deekin Pogram we met one uv the deekin's ante-war sons bv a likely mulatto woman, Mirandy. and he refocsed to lend the deekin the price uv a sustaner for him and me. And tho time wuz wheu the deekin owned that nigger- Will Blane and Logan pay the deekin the valoo thereof in shekels uv gold and shekels uv silver? Will iilane and Logan pay the deekin for the property confiecatid doorin' the War by Fedrel sojersv Will his clame for mules and rales confiscatid by the Fedrels, wich wuz rejectid becoz it \yuz proved upon him that while he sold the Fedrel sojers watermelons doorin' the day he bushwhacked 'em at nite--will that clame bo paid by Blane nd Logan? No, down here we see no reason fur votin fur Plane and Logan. We shel vote fur Sheriff Cleveland or whoever the Democratic Nashnel Committee put on in his place. We have votid the Dimocratic ticket till moss hez growd on onr bax, and we shall contiiv>o till tho end. We can t change to Republik.ns. We can't com­ mence warin cleen snir.s and puttinon stoekins in the summer at our advanced age. The noo generashuu now oomin on may do H, but we can't. We can't quit noo whisky and dogleg terbacker, nor kin the t ood deekin commense learnin to reed at his advanced age. We shel not hev onlimitid nigger laber any more, but we hope with a Demekratic Administra-hen to hev the niggers that are with us so completely un­ der control that it will amount to about the same thing. The Dimocrisy uv the Cross-roads may be countld on ez solid and stedfast. We ses no rezons why Blane and Logan should be elected. PETKOLEUM V. NASUY, ( lluz tlie same.) PROTECTIVE TARIFF. The Republican Leader oh the #rea$ Zssne of the Cmm* f5 paign. „;1,, Mr. Blataf'i Speech it Hamll* loa, Ohio. THE SHOTGUN Soi itla Carolina Colored Men to ISc Intimidated* [Washington special.1 Advices from South Carolina indicate that die Bourbons, elated at their successes in over­ riding an absolute Republican majority of 30,- 000 in that State at large, are determined to go even further and rob the Republicans of thi Congre sional Representative in the Seventh District, which has been conceded to the .Re­ publicans. Already Red Shirt clubs have been organized, and at e;icli political meeting minute guns are tired, and every means likely to fright­ en tlie ignorant colored voters resorled to. The Bourbon orato s appeal to their hearers to re­ member "the good old days of 1876," and urge them to throw off th-- last vestiire of negro su­ premacy. The Seventh, generally called the "black district," has a Republican majority of 20,ono, aud extends almost the entire length of the State. Lately the Democrats have not contested the district, but have allowed the Re­ publicans to elect their nominee without oppo­ site. This year, however, a Democrat has been nominated, and a vigorous effort is to be made to count him in. It is the purpose of the Bour­ bons to detent the re-election of Smalls, and no effort to secure this end wiil be left untried Re­ publican papers generally have had little to say in regard to the shotgun policy in the South this year, and the Northern reader is led to think that that policy is v.om out and will be entirely discarded. It is apparent, however, that in ^outti Carolina "the chivalrv" which shoots down colored voters in cold blood is not dead, and the indications are that the shotgun will again prove a more potent weapon with the Bourbon thin the ballot in the hands of the tegro. Colored men may not be shot for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket, but a volley of musketry fired in the air around the quarters of the colored voters on the night before election, together with the slight-of-hand changes in the location of the ballot-boxes, will, undoubtedly secure the de­ sired result in the Sevenrh District, and the colored vote of :io,0iK) thereby be overcome by a white Bourbon vote of 7,o09. Men of Ohio: In a procession of cur political Qpponen'a at Youngstown recently there ap­ peared a man and woman in rags and apparent "Wretchedness bearing the inscription This is what protection has done ior us." [Derisive langhte'.J This was intended to typify and de­ nounce the results of protection in Ohio. I want to present the other side of the picture. In Ohio to-day there are 2l,ooa manufacturing estab­ lishments. They cost jaixi.uoo.ooo, snd they turnout annually a product worth $350,000,000. Out of the results of that investment snd that product I observe a great many people in Ohio who are not in rasrs and not in wretchedness. [Laughter and great cheering.] Thirty-five and fortv years ago the entire Western country was called upon as an agricultural community to oppjse the protective lariM', because it unjustly- favored the manufacturer of the East. Since then the manufacturing Industries of the coun­ try have traveled westward until Ohio has be­ come one of the largest manufacturing States in the Union fcheersj. and combining within her­ self a great aertcnlt- ral interest snd great man­ ufacturing interest. She presents all the elements of comfort and material progress. Steadily as the agricultural States become settled, manufactures follow. Indiana and Illi­ nois ;md Michigan arc coming on rapidly after Ohio. Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota will come alone in due time, the result being that the pro­ tective policy now upheld by the Republican party operates so as to carry "the manufacturer into every State, and ultimately into every county in the Union. It never was designed that one part of tho country should be per­ manently agricultural and the other part manu- facturiug, bur it was dcsicned that agriculture and manufactures should go hand In hand [chcrs], anil wherever they go hand in hand you have thrift, progress, and happiness. [Re­ newed cheering. I If this indu-trial system which combines the hicbest elements of human prosperity by unit­ ing the agricultural and the manufacturing in­ terests is worth i reserving, you should not for­ get that our political opponents have never failed in the last fifty-one years--never since since when they had the power in Con­ gress--either to repeal the protective tariff, if one existed, or to try to repeal it, or to prevent the enactment of such a tsrlff. In other words, since 183H the Democratic party in Congress has never sustained by its vote a protective tariff, not one. [A volro---"Ahd it never will."J We are met with the accusation that a pro­ tective tariff injures tho commerce of the coun­ try. That is more frequently made in the East t an in the West. Tlie answer to it is, that since the protective tariff was enacted in 18C1 the exports from the United States have been vastly greater in amount, and value than all the exports from the first settlement of an English colonist on this continent down to the inauguration of President Lincoln. [Great che>rinir.] I think that is worth repeating. [Cries of "Yes! yes!"J If you take every export, that was ever mnde from the territory which now constitutes the United States from the time of settlement at Jamestown and at Plym­ outh iu 1607 and 1820 clear down to 1860. and then add them together, they fail by several thousand million dollars to be as great in amount as our exports from 18C1 to this time, i Henewed cheering. J So that the ass rtion that the protective tariff hinders the development of the commerce of the country is not only dis­ proved by tho facts, but directly the contrary Is true, for agriculture and manufactures and com­ merce go hand iu hand, and were designed to go hand in hand. They are triple cords, which, bound together, make up the strength of na­ tion prosperity. 1 assume, therefore, that the people of Ohio are interested in maintaining the protective tari:T, and if you are it is in vour power to do it. [Cries of "We'll do it; well do it," and great cheering Ohio speaks her voice on Tuenday next. This district will have the opportunity to speak her voice a d say whether one of the most brilliant advocates of protection that ever served in Con­ gress shall be returned I Cheers for McKinley], with the oportunity to vindicate by your votes the splendid experience whieh Ohio has had in developing her agricultural and manufacturing interes:s together. It is for you, the men of Ohio, while the nation looks on, to record your opinion .and your judgment. I thank you for your cordial reception and bid you good-by. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. He Is Opposed to Southern Rule, and, Therefore, Cannot Vote for Cleveland. rBoston special,] Tlie Rev. Edward Everett Hale made his first speech in the present campaign at a Republican ratification meeting to-night, in the Dudley Street Opera-House. His speech was largely devoted to an exposition of the importance of keeping the rule of the nation out of the hands of the south. In opening he said: "I am not going to make a speech about personal prefer­ ences. I like Jim Blaius. (Applause.) I honor snd respcct him, but it is not because I like him, because I honor him, or because 1 respect him--it is not because ot' that alone, nor because of that chiefly, fhat I ask you, everv man, to vote for him when tho 4th of -November comes, but because he believes in a Government of the people for the people, and by the people. I don't want you to vote the Democratic ticket. .jiJow that word ' Democratic' is a shocking mis­ nomer, for" -I, myself, am a democrat of the Bemocrats; T* beliefs in a Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. 1 believe in nothing less. It is because I believe In that that I don't believe that I had better honor the Southern party, the party which has nomi­ nated Grover Cleveland, and which does not be­ lieve in a (iovernment of the people, for the people, by the people. My first proposition is this: i will try to urove it from history, then I will go on to what I think of the aspect of the present and of the future. This country from isol to 1SGU was largely governed bv the South­ ern party. They did not know how to govern the country then, and they don't know how to govern it now. [Applause.j You constantly hear the statement made that the Democratic party always makes a blunder when it gets a chance. Why is this? Are not these men edu­ cated in the same schools? D< n't they read the same books we do? May be yes, and may be no. But I will tell yon the reason why in America, why in a republics party which is an oligarchi­ cal party, en aristocratic party, always goes wrong. This party, led by such trimmers as Mr. Cleveland, led by such bad men as Jeffer­ son Davis, always was the party of the few who didn't believe in the workingmen; they were the Southern party. It was their business not to believe in the workingmen. They didn't be­ lieve in the black man, they didn't believe in the poor white; they don't believe in the black man, they don t bslieve in the poor white. They believe a set of educated men--above the rest-- should govern the country. The believed tnat once, and they believe it to-dav. This is the reason why. if you happen to belong to the governing cla«s of Mississippi, your vote is worth th^ee times as much, and more, than your vote if you happen to be a voter in Box* bnrjr." METHODIST MINISTERS. BLAINE'S NEIGHBORS. They Stand by Him Unanimously. [Philadelphia special.] "The more you probe Mr. Blaine's transactions In railway shares with his old neighbors and friends iu Maine who had money to invest, the plainer it becomes that his mot ives and methods were unimpeachable. " So spoke C. M. Bailey, the well-known oil manufacturer of Winthrop, Me., President of the New York and Maine Steamship Company, at his branch office in this city to-day. lie was on? of the first of Maine's What the New York Association •f Ttting ftr St. John. [New York Tribune.] The members ot the Methodist Episcopal Mlsisteis' Association had an informal talk sbout candidates for President yesterday at their weekly meeting. Cleveland, it was found, had no friends. In the course of the conversa­ tion it was suggested that St. John ought to be supported as the candidate of the Prohibition­ ists. An animated discussion followed. The liev. Merritt llulb-jrd, of the Washington Square Church, increased the interest in the subject by reading a paper entitled: "A Preacher in Search of a Party," in which he argued that it was the duty of temi erance people to vote the Republi­ can ticket and not for St. John. He charged that the Democratic party was the partv "of the brewery and distillery," and that Its ranks were recruited from the grog-shops. "If now and businessmen to come to the front in the de- M „ feme of Mr. Blaine's integrity. He was a pur- a rain it subsidizes the tTdrd~party"--the Prohi- chaser of Little Reck bonds himself, and bis | bition-he continued, "it is that it may more testimony is valuabl*". Mr. James Pollock, the gveat carpet manufacturer, a member of the Board of Education, was a delegate to the Re­ publican Convention that nominated Blaine. "Not only are the carpet manu acturers solid f'ir Blaine, as far as I have been able to ascer­ tain," said Mr. Pollock, "but there is a signifi­ cant n:oveiv.ent in Blaine's favor among the Ir sh factory operatives Several of my hands sre hearty Uiaine men, and many intelligent Irishmen of i.ensington tnink him the ' hoy for ouid Ireland.' '11.e Irish Republican clubs are doing fcist rate campaign work." Democratic Rule, j Republican Bale. Statement of the con-! Statement of the con­ dition of the United dition of the I nited States Treasury for the Sta.es Treasury for the year ending July l, 18.1 : year ending July 1,188J: Receipts $41,4T»>39 49 Expenditures. 62^16,055 IS Ca>sh in Tre»a- Demo- has pro- tho strong the nation erused. It Mttlers women of 4,000,000 crats claimed as of tec ted the weak and arms of the law. It bf»» the best currency Che world has opened np to the use millions of acres of thopub&c domain. It has fostered manufactories Mid thus pro­ tected the laborer by insuring him good wages.--Inter Ocean. THE CHARGES AGAJNST BLAINE. F. Wright, of Oberlia Coll?g^» iWwes They An IM Proven. [Letter in Cleveland Leader.] Ths conclusions to which my Investigations have led me are briefly these: The charges against Mr. BlSlne are far from being prov^fl. Many ot theia we csncleaily show to be erroneous, and the Worst of them admit of an explanation, unless we go r.pon the principle that with public men the worst possi­ ble construction should always be pet upon their actions and word*. But, in onr opinion, the position ot Mr. Flaine is such--he has been so long ope* to public crit- cism, he is confided in so laraeiyby the best of men of the Republican party, who have had ample opportunities to know him, among others by President Garfield--that his dubious actions are entitled to a generous construction. It is asserted, I know, that Edmunds distrusts Mr. Blaine, aud that he "has repeatedly said in pub- 11c that Blaine in the Senate was the tool of Jay *rpuld. But Mr. Edmunds has presided at a Blaine meeting since the nomination, and now t*"at he never said any such thing as that Blaine was the tool ot Gould In the Senate, and that he could not have said it, because he never thought it. If there is one discouraging thing in the pres­ ent political campaign, it is that the Democrats and the independent Republicans are both so ready to hold in ai eyance their political princi­ ples, under the ho; es of sailing into office on the strength of the uersonal prejudices they hope to rouse against Mr. Blaine by their own misreprentations. Misrepresentation is all the stock they have in trade. I have had this con- siderntion forced upon me during the extensive trip made this summer through Missouri, Southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania. In the guise of a geolo­ gist I have been permitted incidentally to ascer­ tain the sentiment prevailing in the saloons and kindred places, where the rank and file of De­ mocracy spend their leisure hours. So far as I have read this public sentiment, the main rea­ sons urged for the triumph of the Democratic party are two: First, to get the Republicans out of cilice; second, to rebuke the temperance sentiment which so manifestly prevails among the Republicans. The opposition of the Demo­ cratic party to sumptuary laws tells the whole story. The Democratic party is opposed to all positive legislation in favor of morality. They are opposed to temperance laws and to Sundav legislation, aud for this reason I cannot believe that ttie Prohibitionists vrill thoughtlessly throw the power into their hands. And how the civil service reformers should hope to promote their cause by inaugurating a party whose first move, logically and necessarilv, will be to make a clean sweep of all the officers, from the clerk at Washington to the lighthouse keeper St Alas­ ka, is more than I can compr' hend. BOURBON FALSEHOODS. Specimens of tho Shallow Campaign Am­ munition Being Used by the Democrats. ["Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] Secretary McPherson is kept pretty busy in answering letters from UepuMicans in dtilVrent parts ot the country who d» sire to be furnished with material to combat wild assertions made by Democratic speakers The Tennessee Dem­ ocrats seem to be especially wrought up over the tremendous surplus in'the Treasury, which they assert amounts to $4.ir>,000,000. The facts are that the 1st of October the cash in tl.e Treas­ ury amountel to that sum; that $244,0!m,o<H) r presents gold and silver deposited for which silver certificates have been issued, and which is required by law to remain iu the Treasury for the redemption of such certificates; thatfl'.t,- 000,IKK) is held for the redemption of matured bonds and Interest thereon which have b >en called and which may at any time be present- d for payment; that $2,<K)'i,ooo is held for the paymeut of interest on uncalled bonds, which is due and unpaid; so the cash balance available is $144,000,000, from which sum expenditures undet appropriations are to be paid and the re­ serve against the greenbacks maintained. In Iowa the Democrats are circulating a cam­ paign document charging a discrepancy of j'240,000,000 in Government accounts. This is an old lie revamped. It was fully exposed four years ago. When the (natter was up in the For­ ty-fourth Congress, first session. Secretary Bris- tow, in a communication to Congress, lully ex­ plained the whole matter. In that communica­ tion he said; "In no instance has there been any erasure or alteration in the books or records ot this depart­ ment, and the changes made in the nublished reports have been only to express with greater accuracy the precise condition of the public ac­ count", as shown by such books and records." As Mr. Bristow is now a supporter of Gov. Cleveland tortile Presidency his authority ought to be good with the Democrats. In Illinois and elsewhere Democratic speakers are declaring that the Republicans have squan­ dered over $5<i(i,uoo,i;uo 011 the navy since the war. The records of the department show that only $154,000,000 have been appropriated and expend­ ed on war vessels during that period. That amount includes all the expenditures for the Bureaus of Construction, Steam Engineering, Ordnance, and Yards and Docks. In both the latter are included as for war vessels several millions of dollars expended in experimental tests of orilnanoe and for the care and improve­ ments of navy-yards and docks and repair of buildings, etc. While tlie present navy is not what it should be, It is formidable as compared with the navy turned over by Buchanan's ad­ ministration at the outbreak ot the rebellion. THE VldTDRY IN OHIO. ft 1ft SolBeientty Decisive to Piaee the Election of Blaine Beyond Doubt. Pnm Comments en the Result--Demo* ^JPCSPONDENCY-WM UM* t land Withdraw! ^jf'hto Settles it," says the New York Tribune editorial comment on the recent election. I he people of Ohio have done well their part to shape the history of the next twenty years. Xhe. victory is largely due to the great popular- ..r,**111 sl>ienti>d personal leadership of Mr. •Maine and Gen. Lotan. Mr. Blaine's personal „ 1 • . , ,. - strength was not diminished but increased by 111 ean only an inconsequential shiver, h's toe? worn out or the whole bottom of the earth may EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES. A Talk with an Old 1 raveler in Sooth Ame lea _ "Do yon agree with other authori­ ties that the terror caused by earth­ quakes is steadily augmented in pro­ portion to the number of shocks ex­ perienced ?" "Undoubtedly! It is a grows by what it feeds on. actually experience the caused by an earthquake, and nothing else, it is not alone the awful sense of the instability of the earth that demor­ alizes and appalls you. The fright.ul capriciousness and uncertainty as to the result adds to this sense. It may ... ILLINOIS STATE fear that When yon sensation public pat.enee and disgusted sensible men. i<aw has triumphed, and fraud will not preva.l. Justice has triumphed, and the shotgun is not to rni6, Protection to homo industry hu tri~ umphed." be about to fall out, yotv can't tell which. If we should become subject to earthquakes hereabouts, it would be The St. Louis Globe-7)emocrat says: "After some consolation if we could only have J " a range of volcanic mountains, such as border most earthquake countries, to signal or quiet our tears. "The expression, 'Thank Heaven, the mountains are smoking!' is an oft-re­ peated one in the western trend of the Cordilleras. It has grown out of the general impression there that when t:ie volcanoes are active a relief is af- an unprecedented ctnvass which called out an immense vote and attracted p rhaps more at­ tention than was ever before given to a State election, the contest in Ohio has ended with a victory for the p <rty of progress and civilization which insures a final tiiumph at the November polls. A fair day enabled both p rties to bring out. their lull strength. The Democrats seemed to have polled a larger vote than ever before, while the Republicans drew on their reserve, which has lain dormant for three years past. The exercise of all the powers known to the De­ mocracy in the way of repeaters, chemical bal­ lots, the out right purchase of votes, and all the folded the pent-up fiery sources, whose ^ .... violent efforts for deliverance would otherwise cause the dreaded terramote that has so often proved the destruc­ tion of cities, the destruction of popu­ lous districts, and an incalculable source of suffering and death." '"Were some of your earthquake ex­ periences of an interesting nature?" devices of fraud were unavailing, and Ohio stands side by side with Maine and Vermont in the Kepublican column." % The Chicago Trioun? comments as follows: It is a victory of gigantic proportions and of sweeping and resistless consequences. It m ana the rescue of a State which was completely pos­ sessed by the Democrats. They carried it two years ago by over l.»,o»o majority, and one year ago by majority. In the meantime'the Democratic Legislature repealed the registra­ tion law in order to prepare tor this year's eleo- »>T „„ „„ 1 .1' 1 JI . • « tion. The large cities had all passed "into Demo- 1 . , , ^ sa7 HO- and decidedly tick- cra.ic hands. The Democrats controlled the *lsh to boot. The winter and summer \hebaUo^hoxeIiff8' the V°tiD* precmcts-I spent in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, "An enormous corruption fund was poured ant^ Chili were distinguished by fre- intii1 the .state amounting to $«ou,ooo in addition quent earth tremors, thousrh not sitr- to the la:g3 local subscriptions. Twelve thou- 11 \ K, sand saloonkeepers were actively working for Democratic su- cess, and the brewers a id nalized by any great local shock, such . . . . . . . . . . . -- a s d e s t r o y e d M e n d o z a , w i t h t w o - t h i r d s liquor-dealers gave unsparingly of their wealth of its inhabitants, a few years nrevious- to the same cause. The Deinoc ats had con- 1 , " > ears previous centrated all the r strength and all their te- lv' or ^7 aliy disastrous, long-rolling, sources in Ohio, conscious that they had all the subterrauean and submarine wave such advantages on their fide. Thev staked their 1 existence u: on a single die, and tliey have lost. ' I e^', ftud even so^ recently as 18(7, They are snowed under and buried. 1 "The Ohio victory is sufficiently decisive to place the election of Blaine and Logan bevond any pcradventure. Henceforward the Demo­ crats will save their money, and the doubtful States and doubtful voters will be doubtful no longer. There will be the rain. "It will not do for the Democratic managers to say that ' they ex]>ected to lose Ohio.' They expected no such thing. They fought tooth and nail to carry it, in the knowledge that it wa- indispensable to the success of their na- ^„i„„ 41 , , • .„ tional ticket. They might have carried it pulse throbbed across the Pacific, on the chief local' issue which they forced submerging islands, clamoring at the into the canvass--the liquor question--as . . - they had done two yoars In succession, if the importance of the national struggle had not been supeiimposed. As it is, they have probably polled •JO.utiO more votes than they will be able to poll three weeks hence, for Blaine is that much stronger than his partv in Ohio on Htate issues. It is d ubtful wh.ther Cleveland could have carried New York even if his party had carried Ohio at the State election; now it swept the Pacific Coast, wiping out Concepcion, Talcahuana, and other minor Chilian ports, by the overbrim­ ming of the sea water, as so many 'rush'to^et°in°out °f P^'tured towns might be sponged from a schoolboy s slate, landing an Ameri­ can man-of-war high and dry at Callao, which was also greatly damaged, and upheaving a tidal wave whose mvste- portnls of remote harbors, and expend ing its dying heart-break upon the headlands of China and Japan. The shock felt here on the 10th was no more than a flea bite to what I felt in South America. Yet, for the reasons 1 have mentioned, even such a paltry shock thntTw «-mhtLhc, caiinot; !hv probability is there would have been iniinitely more tint lie will not carry a sinsrle Northern State. • . , . . . „ J and he may now lose two or three Southern significant and awe inspiring. States. Me is as much weaker than his party "Is the theory that while the Volca- plrtyTo Ohio98 Heah"s evit "°°.3 sm®ko no 8e«ous convulsions may since he w as nominated, and Ohio has crowded be feared generally borne out by ex- perience?" "Not always, though in the majority him out of the race. "Again we say. It was a famous victory. Its importance cannot be exagg ra'ed. It brings glad tidings to the whole country, for the brunt of the battle has been borne, and fiom now on the anxious work of the campaign will be changed to easy confidence." The New York Smi, Democratic, NJVt "Gro­ ver Cleveland ia beaten." wry 3,868,213 00 Excess of ex* , penditurea.. 21,138,756 28 (or St per cent.) TtJBN THK BASCALSOLT ltecs'ipts $m,525,350 2S Kxitenditures 18ti,S<05,U3a 78 Cash in Treas­ ury 343^80^30 CO Excess of re­ ceipts (or 116 perce Amount ai-. ready paid4 toward ex- tin^iiiahin g the Demo­ cratic war debt 4M48.179 61 KEEP THE RASCALS OUT effectually rivet the chains of the people by detesting the real friend of temperance"--the Republi'-an party. Mr. Hnlberd eulogized the Kepublcan party, in the course of his remarks comparing the organization to a noble ship, and saying: "She has counted 85 per cent, of the voters of the Meihodist Kplsco; al Church and 91 oO-KHi ner cent, ot its ministry among her crew. She lias puc forward as a candidate tor the suffrages a man who, under the hottest fire ! that has been tr.roe 1 upon any citizen of the re­ public, so bears himself that, without an office­ holder that he can manipulate, he is made by a majority of his party its standard bearer, and the best men ot the republic are following where his whi e plume leads." Mr. Hulberd, in concluding, returned to the question of voting for St. John. "The brewers," he said, "have made their selection and are working with their might and wain for {he suc­ cess of one of these parties and spending some of their money. I bel eve, thooicn 1 could not prove it, to keep St. .le n in the field to help de­ feat the other. Carl Schnr* la rallying such of his compatriots as love the.r beer to Imp defeat a mean, narrow, bigoted Prohibitionist, as he calls the standard-bearer of one of these partlea I have seen the use made of the pronounced prohibition proclivities or one of the candidates, and even the ridicule east upon his personal ab- stemionsne s. I intend to watch the nomina­ tions for the Assembly in this 8'ate. _ I can ot JUDGE TOUlttiEE. He GOMMS Oat Squarely for Blaine--His Reasons. In a lengthy letter to the New7 York Tribune, Judge Tourgee, wI10 was vehemently opposed last spring to the nomination of Mr. id ine, gives a cigcnt statement of his leasons for earn­ estly advocating Mr. Itlaine's election. He de­ clares, first, that the Democratic party has demonstrated its unfitness, the liepublican par­ ty its fitness to rule the country; second, that the party whose only possible chance for suc­ cess is based on violence and fraud at Southern polls has no claim on a Northern man's vote; third, that a consideration of the personal char­ acter and qualifications ef the candidates com­ pels liim to support Hlaine: lourth, that the as­ sociation of a slient spectator of the war for the Union with a zealous and active Copperhead makes it a patriotic duty to defeat them both. Last spring Judge Tourgee was disturbed by the charges against Mr. Blaine, but a careful study of all the evidence, and especially the latest installment, has convinced him that those charges were false. In concluding his letter Judge Tourgee says: "I favor the election of Blaine and Logan, not for any party purpose or personal advantage, but because I deem it important that the spirit and purpose which has hitherto animated the Republican party should continue in control of the nation, snd especially because I should deem it a calamity well-nigh irremediable In its influence npori the public welfare and private morals should the Democratic partv, with its controlling influences and chosen candidate, re­ ceive the indorsement of public approval. The same sense of duty which impelled me to op­ pose the selection of Mr. Uiaine as a candidate of the Republican party, now that he is chosen as the leader of that party and represents Its spirit and policy, compels me to make choice between him and his opponent--between that party and th • Democracy -between a record of patriotic achievement and sullen obstruction-- between the promise of prosperity and the prosi ect of peril. As I decide for myself, so I "nave not only the right but the duty to urge my fellow-citizens to deride for themselves," The Straight Qnill* [From the Washington (Iowa) Press.} The right, fit thing for Republican voters to do any yesr is to "vote her straight," provided fair, reputable, honest, competent men are on the ticket. But to vote her straight from A to lssard this year is a paramount duty. Strike straight from the shoulder. A straight, uns;iatched ticket is a plumper right be ween the eyes. It makes a bull's eye. Don't be wheedled and soft-soaped and honev-fugled, but ram down your load of will Will Cleveland Withdraw'? There Is great dt spondency among tho New York Democ.ats over the news from Ohio, says a New York special, and it shows plainly, in spite of determ ned eflorts to conceal it. The result in <'hlo revives the stories of Cleveland's intended withdrawal in case of disastrous de­ feat in Ohio, and there is scarcely a doubt but another and a deter mined effort will be made to induce him to decline «nd put forward ne whj could unite the Democracy and command sup­ port fiom the respectable element of the country. Nasby's Advice te Democratic Orators. This advice, which Kashv gives in reply to an inquiring correspi ndint, will be found 'useful by Democratic orators: "Stump-speaker, Smithville, Injeany--From wat I know uv the kentry you live in,'l shood advocate tariff reform, with a decided leenin to pe tecksliun. I think yoo hev coal in yoor vi­ cinity, and that, yoor voters are largely inter- estid in manufaktrin. Kf 1 am kerrect that is wat you want to do. Ef, on the other hand, I am not kerrect. aud yoo are pmcly au'ricultrel, and yoor i>eople are not p» rtiklerly intelligent, insist trat Dimocrisy means tariff reform with a decided leenin toward free trade. Yoo know wat yoor people want. Constroo the platform to niit 'em. The platform was made to be constrood; construUtid, in fact, so that Henry Watterson and Sam Randall can both stand on it." THE National Republican recently pub­ lished a de:ailed statement, giving names, dates and amounts of the snms stolen from the Government during thirty-cupe years of Democratic administration. From this statement the sums due the Government from defaulting Democratic officers appear as follows: Ex-United States Marshals.......,.,.. $492,331 Postmasters C.. 405,158 Receivers of public moneys... .. 1,052,283 Territorial Governors and others. 1,335,521 Indian service. I,2S!),524 Navy disbursing officers 1,154,<:8I War Deprrtment 2,492,738 Customs officers ' 2,519,'.)9fl Banks of deposit. i......j....' 8,853,391 Total. fl!),496,851 These stealings were taken when the rev­ enues and expenditures of tho Government were dimes where they are now dollars; but the robberies fur exceed those under ths liopublicuns wheielhres times tlie amounts of money are handled. What would the thieving of Democratic officials be if they had controlled the revenues of the last twenty-three years? It would bo some­ thing appalling to contemplate. THIS is Fred Douglass' message to col­ ored men: "Go home, colored men, and learn this political catechism: You are un­ der the American flag to-day. Who put you there? The Republican party. You are in the United States Constitution to­ day. Who put you there? The Republi­ can party. You are American citizeus to­ day. Who made you 6uch? The liepub­ lican party. You are eligible to any office of honor or profit in the gift of the nation. Who made you so? The Republican party. You have the constitutional right to vote to-day. Who gave you that right? The Republican party. Millions of colored people have been emancipated and set free. By what party was this done? By the Re­ publican party A REPUBLICAN brewer thus writes to the New York Tribune: The chances for the success of the Republican pa:ty are at least as good as those of the Democratic party. Let our association espouse the cause of Cleveland as proposed and what kind of and purpose with a straight, clean Republican j treatment may we expect in the event of ' Re] tublican success? Again, can the brew­ ers afford to have the people of this country understand that the organization is a tender to the Demo ratic party? As one in inter­ est, I protect against the brewera being placed in such a dangerous position." ticket for a wad. take deliberate aim for a rak­ ing shot at every man on the opposition ticket --fire!--bang! and down the game chickens will come." It should lie the ambition of the Republican voters in this county to make the majority on our State, Congressional, judicial, and county tickets equal to that which will be given to Blaine and Logan. We can do it if we will; if we won't, we shall be foolish and green. Sock the vote right home, clean along the line. Load her for bear. Where Logan's Crowds Come From. I wonder if anybody forgets that Logan wai the only volunteer soldier who ever commanded an army of three corps; that in his command were eo.coo men from Ohi >, 40,000 from Indiana, 100.000 from Illinois. i5,ouo from Michigan, 10,- 000 from Wisconsin, 5,000 from Minnesota, 10,000 from Missouri, and 5,0)0 from Kansas and Ne­ braska? These veterans form the hosts, and with their sons, now voters, join to make the crowds that greet him everywhere, and are proud of the opportunity to place him in the position next highest in the gift of the American people.-- Yeeran, in the Fargo Argun. In Northern New Jersey there are Blaine A REPUBLICAN victory, sweeping and undoubted, in November will break the reign of Democracy iu the solid South. It will be worth millions to the South, and afford to vot - for a man of straw tat President, f and Logan clubs, with large membership who, e en if^successful, could not bring about j rolls, formed upon the basis of "No Re- pgohibltion. J publicans permitted to join." They take . „.n. , 1 pride in claiming that every vote in their No PABTY in any country ever existed ( cjQb8 j8 a Democratic vote for Blaine and which has stood so true to the interests of the laboring masses as has the Republican Logan. win ue worm miuiuiiB iu me ouum, ana ; me mooring masse* as tut? xvepuuncan j • add more to her prosperity than any other party from the first vear of its existence to ] MB. CLEVELAND, it ia said, keeps hi* edei^ |j«e JfSe pnaent period. 3^ a^te men and J collar, in a cheese bo*. ^ V AW examination of the Congressional Globe for 1864 develops the fact that Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks voted in the United States Senate for the bill granting the Northern Pacific Railroad 46,000,000 acres of land-: ^The bill was supported in tho House by l)aniel W. Yoorhees and most of the Democrats who were then Congress­ men and who are now shouting anti- monopoly. t DITBING thirty-one years of Democratic control the Government lost $19 090,000 by theft, and when, in 1861, that party was deposed, tho credit of the Government was so low in the markets of the world that bonds were floated only by paying interest at the rate of 12 per cent., and that, too, in a time of profound pe^ce. IN a letter to a prominent lawyer in Bos­ ton, a Democratic official in Florida writes: "It is possible that Blaine will carry Flori­ da, * * * and I am afraid that Blaine will be elected," ' of case9. Nor can you always rely on another favorite hypothesis equally prevalent down yonder. The latter supposes that a great earthquake inva­ riably occurs in three successive 6liocks, the second being severer than the tirst, and the third being the maxi­ mum that either upsets everything or indicates the final expenditure of the throe. These theories have frequently been disproved by the events them­ selves, and, in more than one instance, by my own observation. The one tre­ mendous crash that destroyed Mendoza | came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, and with even le:s premonition. | 'l he last earthquake that demolished Caracas was preceded by only one shock, and that a heavy one. Of the thirty or more earthquakes that I ex' perienced, chiefly in Chili, less than s fourth of them conformed to the mys­ terious rule of three, so persisted in by the natives, while many were marked by five or six distinct shocks or vibra­ tions, of varying violence, and follow­ ing no order of sequence whatever of time, force, or effect. So much for their rule of three. The volcanic smoke-vent theory is weakened by nu­ merous examples. In my own expe­ rience. full half the shocks I felt were iu sight of volcanic peaks smoking freely. The disturbances in Sicily are almost invariably accompanied by vol­ canic vomitings, and I never heard of a great convulsion in the Sandwich Is­ lands that was not attended by an eruption of the neighboring craters.-- New York-Sun. Matrimonial Tests. ?.-«®n'e follow.ng "points" are derived from the experience of an English lady in good social position, but limited means, who, for several years has been taking "clients" in need of husbands, to watering places during the season. In ten years she scores twenty-three suc­ cesses and nine failures, this fisher of men. It appears that dark girls go oS best in spring and autum, and blondes at mid summer; that the market is apt to be dull in the beginning of the sea­ son, and to grow brisk toward the close; that very young, fair men like bru­ nettes best, but veer Blowly toward their lighter sisters as the fair men grow older, and that the converse is as true of very young dark men; that bru­ nettes almost as invariably prefer fair men, irrespective of age, and that the predilection of blondes is generally an opposite one; that blonde girls work off very ill in raw, coldish weather; that to couple a fair and a dark girl in walk­ ing, driving, eta, is generally, but not always, good policy, since the intended victim sometimes falls in love with each in succession, and ends by taking neither; and, finally, that while moun­ tains and lakes prove lively incentives to flirtation, at early periods, the sea­ side was decidedly the stronger in the way of la ding the fish as the leaves turn and the days grow shorter. H in imerican Authorship H is a letter which expresses a good deal in American authorship, being identified with the names of Uulleck, Hawthorne, Holmes, and Howells, and ha3 a double prominence in one of our brightest literary women, who has made tlie familiar signature II. H. a house­ hold word. A street which can num­ ber two of the above authors as resi­ dents must be considered singularly favored. Although Heacou street ie generally associated with the abodes of fashion, Preseott, the historian, and Holmes, the poet and essayist, have given to it the higher interest of litera­ ture. Our readers will be glad to learn that the "Autograph of the Break­ fast Table" is to have a near neighbor in this historic str< et in the person ol the author of "Our Wcddiug Journey" and "A Woman's Reason."' Hence­ forth no Cockney should be allowed tc drop his h's in a locality thus honored by two of the most fast dious snd deli- c ite writers who use the English lan­ guage, and who have invested the eighth letter of the alphabet with an abiding interest for all who are familiar witli the names and works of our n6te«' 1 ying authors.--Xtoiitoil Jflv&tticv Hi## #! •A Merchants' Association has fjanized in Sycamore. --ElLhorn reports an unusual nutbtf-flf be© trees being cut this season. -Fifty-three marriage licenses is­ sued in September in. Danville, the largest number of any month this year. The opening of the pnblic schools at Beardstown has been postponed on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. --Seven burglars escaped from the Dan­ ville jail, but three of them were recaptured. Tho fugitives are said to be desperate men. --Col. George H. Woods, who served during the war on the staff* of Gens. Sheridan and Hooker, died suddenly at Decatnr. --Henry Moeller, aged 99, of l^oUno, who had been ailing for some time, killed himself to avoid a painful operation about to be performed on him. --Postmaster Little, of Decatur* has re­ ceived forty-four street letter-boxes with ywhioh to inaugurate tlie _ froe-dolivery sys­ tem in tluit city. --Martin Connelly, tvho v. as reifefilljK struck on the head by Lewis Rankin, in Decatur, is dead, and the jury at the in­ quest held Rankin to await trial for nnpcjtik Rankin is in jail. 1 --The American Metropolitan Associa­ tion of Chicago, the object of which is to encourage practical temperance by free agi­ tation us^igainst sumptuary legislation, incorporated by the Secretary of State. x --The Governor has pardoned Thomas % Onuu!aU, sentenced to the Jo i^t Peniten­ tiary from Vermilion County in 1881 for four years for arson. The pardon was bused on a showing of mental unsoundness. --The do id hotly of Mrs. Alvira Cauiield was found in a field near her home, a few miles mr:h of Fr jej ort. She had stir ted for a neighbor's, and died, while on her way, of hear; disease. Her age wa3 77 years. --A teachers' association t»* receive in­ struction from the collcgo f .chlty in the branches of chemistry, mental philosophy, botany, and zoology has been formed at Carthage. The class has about forty bers and meets once every f Jitnight. --A brakeman on the Wabash Railroad, £ named W. B. Burns, whose residence was ^ at SprinKfifld, was instantly kilL d on Sat- 1, urday, near Jacksonville, by the cannon- ball express train. Both legs were broken, and his head was badly crushed. --The 5-year-old son of a farmer named ^ Kohlman, residing five miles South of Waukegan, was killed in a very peculiar < manner on Saturday. His little sister , throw a small pumpkin, which struck him in the stomach, death ensuing in a few hours. --C. A. Fredericks, of Nebraska, took a ^ room at the Wallace House, at Sterling, on ^ Saturday night. About 4 o'clock Sunday ' morning he heard his door-lock click, and awoke in time to see a burg'ar make bis -^ exit Upon examination Fredericks found that $700 had been taken from under his , pillow. The burglar came in at an open window, and escaped without being seen. --John Miller and August Ahlin, form laborers, bving twelve miles noith of Ster­ ling, got drunk on hard cider; on Saturday night, and in a quarrel which ensued, Mil­ ler struck Ahlin in the head with an ax» killing him. He claims to have acted in self-defeuse, and that he struck the other man with the ax only when Ahlin was pre senting a revolver held in both hands at him and threatening to shoot. As the re­ volver was found in the dead man's pocket the theory of self-defense is not strong. --The rule at the Illinois State Peniten­ tiary at Joliet is that a wife may see her convict husband once in four months, or three times a year, and write to him three times more. But how many people know of the existence of the Prison-wall Brigade of women--faithful wives, mothers, sistoro, and sweethearts, who secure board just as near as possible to the penitentiary, in the prison cities of the country, and there, patiently gazing day by day on the massivo stone walls, await the slow lapse of time and the ending of the sentences of tha loved ones inside? Such a class exists. A very respectable boarding-house mistress in Joliet informed me that she had such boarders, and that it was not uncommon in tho houses nearest the penitentiary to have sad-eyed women call aud inquire for board just because they wished to be ^i?ar the- prison. Faithful, ever faithful woman!-- Joliet Cor. Evening Journal. \;i f# Amount asked. A.i ^25,000 31,400 IOMOO --Maj. Benyaurd in charge ef the river and haibor improvements at Chicago, Ime made his annual report upon the wojk, as ^ follows: " Amount Nature of improvement, available. for survey of • the Heunepih ' Caral and enlargement of ^ the Illinois and' Michigan Canal For improvement ot the Illi­ nois iiiver .'... 10fi,tS6 Fi r formation oi Chicago hxr- ,, , bor 107,144 To provide an entrance to Ca urnct River and the port of South C&lcaso 90,000 For dredging Calumet River. £0,900 The project now in course of execution for the improvement of th" Illinois River, Maj. Benyaurd says, contemplates the constroc- ion of a lock and dam at each of the sites selected--La Grange and Kampsville--rand dredging the channel from the State lock., at Copperas Creek to the mouth of tho river. He further says, as the amount ap­ propriated July 5 wili be insufficient to continue the ^vork at both points, it pro­ posed to discontinue work for the season ai Kampsville, to allow the coffer-dam at that ooint to remain .flooded, aad concentrate he force at La Grange. The futtds will he implied to laising the lock walls to their re­ quired height and in purchasing n^aterial or and constructing gates, valves and other ixtures. The funds now available will omplete the walls and gates of the La .irange lock, and will be exhausted at the •lose of the present fiscal year. Should dditional appropriations be made, the plank . ill be transferred to Kampsul $ for oper- tion at that foint. Sutpcient funds should >e appropriated, Maj. B ?nyaurd continues, •<o there shall be no dolay in completing tho vork in order to open the river to naviga- iou throughout the boating season. Hie ton ? and other uiateri .1 required have to> >e obtained a season in advance, and duo revision should be made therefor; other- vise d<?iay onjy adds to th<? expense of th* WOllc. ' j I . . • - - * ' - > • ' . . . . --John Shanes, Id 7ears -aid, was loin-?, & .w 4ft f'V !' 'Mt 5.' -lv- • LIS • p\::.. .