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J. VAN StYKE, EMs * i I McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE dying Wagner showed remarka­ ble magnanimity toward liis old ene­ mies, the French, by forbidding in his will that any of his operas should be performed on the stage in France. PRINCE LOUIS FERDINAND, of Bava- tia, received a diploma as doctor of medicine, and is toiling faithfully as as­ sistant surgeon in the Nyphenbourg Hospital. He is a son-in-law of Isa- ItelJa, ex-Queen of Spain. S6ME idea Of the immigration to Texas from the older Southern States •ince the war, says the Laredo Times, inay be had from the notices of reun­ ions of Alabama Brigades, Georgia Regiments, Virginia Black Horse, eta, In various portions of Texas. Moscow has an enormous new Cathe­ dral, built in the Graeco-Byzantine •tyle, which covers 73,000 square feet, and has cost f12,000,000. It has five Cupolas, on which 900 pounds of gold were used as embellishment, and thir­ teen bells, the largest half as big again AS the "Great Paul" in London. The largest door weighs thirteen tons, Mid cost $310,000. The marble in the building cost $1,500,000. THEY had a jjueer decision at a court in Birmingham, England, lately. The jury complained that they could not aee the face of a witness, whereupon a lawyer complained that the position of the jury, with their backs to the light, prevented him from noting the ex­ pression on their faces when address­ ing them. The Judge then suggested that counsel and jury change places, Irat nothing was done to prevent repe­ titions of the growls. A MANITOBAN farmer was sharpening a stake with an ax when a flash of light­ ning, accompanied by a single clap of thunder, came from the only cloud vis­ ible, a small one immediately overhead. The bolt struck the head of the ax, splitting it into two pieces, and break­ ing the handle. The farmer was knocked to the ground insensible, but speedily recovered, and upon searching about found the fragments of his ax forced deeply into the ground. A PHILADELPHIA bibliomaniac has a collection of nearly seven tons of news­ paper clippings on every conceivable Subject. There are biographic of every prominent man and woman io the world, anecdotes about them, and editorial comments on their failures and successes. The clippings about Queen Victoria would fill several good-sized volumes. He has a thousand columns of material about General Grant. It is ?ne of his daily pleasures to arrange tills mass of matter into a convenient form for reference. He is going to leave the whole collection to one of the large libraries. ATTOBNISY GENERAL GA^J,ANT># is a plain, blunt mnn. and has little respect for the conventionalities of life. He Says that he never wore a dress coat, and never will wear one. General Cable, of Texas, in speaking of him, said the othfcr day: *Mr. Cleveland will have a hard job in persuading Garland to attend swell receptions, or sit for hourB at a state dinner. The Attorney General thinks too much of bis own comfort to put up with such ceremonies. He • told me that one of the conditions under which he accepted his place in the Cabinet was that none . Of the restraints of Washington society Should be placed upon him." THE average wheat crop in the Tnited States for the last six years, not including this, was 445,489,000 bushels, and the average exports in wheat and 4our from those crope were equal to 145,058,000 bushels of wheat. For the last year the crop was 88,489,000 bush­ els less than the average, and the ex­ ports 16,044,500 bushels below the av­ erage. The decadence of our export business in ' breadstuff's is, therefore, much less than many persons suppose. By the way some people talk over the situation, one migty infer that' this country has practically got through wtth the supplying of bread to eaters on the other side of the Atlantic. AN English paper tells the following little story: At the Wimbledon rifle meeting is a bookstail, which is opened every year for the sale of papers and periodicals, so that dwellers in catup may obtain at the earliest possible mo­ ment a eopy of their favorite journal. On the opening day of the camp a tall, brawny Scotchman turned up and asked for a paper. He served, and then, producing a eohl from his pocket, said: •Look here, young man, ye gave me a bad penny last year, and I have saved it for ye." The penny, by the way, was :s French copper, which would not pass muster in Scotland. It was coated with verdigris, having evidently been •Stowed away a long time. *L M A GENTLEMAN just from Europe says that ex-Attorney General Brewster has purchased some marvelous old china to add to the fabulous stores which used to make his ^dinner tables "a thing of tyeauty," the same plates never reap­ pearing alter being used for one course. Among the treasures is a set of Sevres dessert plates that formerly belonged to Louis Philippe; and other bits of historic ware appear on his table. All Of the silver bears the Brewster crest, snd much of the heavy old plate is of ancient designs that tell a history by themselves. Anything like his old Ve­ netian and Bohemian glassware is rarely met with on dinner tables, and ftito his quaint old glasses there are poured some remarkable wines. A SICKENING stsene was witnessed at ft bull fight at Nimes on a recent Snn- day afternoon. The exhibition tank place in the old Boman amphitheatre, which was crowded with 25,000 sight* seers from most of the southern towns, who were brought by exoursion trains. Frasouelo, a famous toreador, per­ formed, and was badly wounded. He was thrice pierced in the thigh by a bull which had just disemboweled a horse. His brother Francisco took his plaoe, and slew the animal. Six bulls were killed. One of them flung a pica­ dor over the bounds of the arena. Seven horses were ripped open. The ground was covered with blood and the entrails of the slaughtered animals. The people hooted the toreadors, and threatened to ill-treat them. The pre­ fect who authorized the spectacle was so sickened that he had to leave at the death of the fourth bull. Such a butch- ery (says a Paris telegram), has never in modern times been witnessed in a French place of public amusement. A REPORTEB in Washington had an amusing experience lately. He was assigned by his editor to write an article on the trade in diamonds in the city, and visited a leading diamond merchant to get the facts. The dealer showed him all the treasures and expatiated on their merils, and his sales to the wealthy and great. Scarcely had the reporter taken his leave when a Lieuten­ ant of Police entered the store and warned the proprietor that he had just received a dispatch from New York say­ ing that two diamond thieves had left that oity for Washington. "Mein Gott!" exclaimed the jeweler. "One of 'em has just been here and seen all my stock, pretending to be a newspaper reporter!" The alarm was at onoe sent out, and all the force was looking for the young man, whose appearance the merchant had described, while a close watch was maintained about the prem­ ises, until the unsuspecting reporter was finally spotted and identified, and everything was explained, greatly to the relief of the Hebrew dealer in gems. • AN eastern paper, the Academy Neivs, having asked a number of dis­ tinguished persons to write for its col­ umns a few words of advice to boys, re­ ceived, among other answers, the fol­ lowing: Dr. Lyman Abbott: "What­ soever thy hand finds to do, do it with thy might." E. P. Roe: "Do one thing honorably and thoroughly, and set about it at once." Ex-President Hayes: "Commit to memory and re­ cite Brown's letter to a young friend." Gen. Lyons: "No one will ever be­ come a great scholar without constant study, dose application, and without thoroughly understanding that which he may attempt before passing it by to take up something else." Gen. Win- field S. Hancock, among other things: "Be truthful, never try to appear what you are not, honor your father and your mother.* Rev. E. E. Hale: "Tell the truth. Keep the Commandments. Do not drink. If you have anything to say, say it; but if not, certainly not" Gen. D. S. Stanley: "That next to ex­ act' regularity in their hours for prayer and pious reading they allow nothing to interfere with their hours of study." How PRINCES make love is told in the "Reminiscences of the Marquis Custine," which have just appeared in Paris. When the Czar Nikolaus was 18 years old he spent two days in Ber­ lin, where he saw the Princess Char­ lotte, two years younger, and of a deli­ cate beauty which at once attracted him. She, however, showed no signs of reciprocating his' affection. The evening before his departure he sat next to the Princess at dinner. "I shall leave to-morrow," he suddenly re­ marked. She did not show any sur­ prise, but quickly answered: "We shall all be sorry that you leave so soon. Cannot your departure be delayed?" "That depends on you." "How so?" asked the Princess. Ttie Prince now declared his love, somewhat to her em* barrassment, as she thought they would be overheard. As a pledge of her love he asked for the ring she wore, sug­ gesting that no one would notice it if she took it off, and, pressing it into a piece of bread, pushed it towards his plate. The ring, however, was not hers, but belonged to her governess, who had received it from the Empress of Russia. And in t aking it off to give to the Prince she read for the first time on the inside the inscription: "Empress of Russia." Her Grammar. It is a pathetic sight to watch the meanderings of the childish mind through the intricacies of the English grammar. Little Jane had repeatedly been reproved for doing violence to the moods and tenses of the verb "to be." She would say "I be," instead of "I am," and for a time it seemed as if no one could prevent it. Finally Aunt Kate made a rule not to answer an in­ correct question, but to wait until it was corrected. One day the two sat together, Aunt Kate busy with embroidery, and little Jane over her dolls. Presently doll society became tedious, and the child's attention was attracted to the emboid- ery frame. "Aunt Kate," said she, "please toll me what that is going to be?" But Aunt Kate was counting, and did not answer. Fatal word, be! It was her old enemy, and to it alone could the child ascribe the silence that fol­ lowed. "Aunt Kate," she persisted, with an honest attempt to correct her ipistake, "please tell me what that is going to am?" Still auntie sat silently^ counting, though her lips curled with amuse­ ment. Jane sighed, but made another pa­ tient effort. • "Will you please tell me what that is going to are?" Aunt Kate counted on, perhaps by this time actuated by a wicked desire to know what would come next. The little girl gathered her energies for one last and great effort. "Aunt Kate, what am that going to are?"--Youth's Companion. A DULL old lady, being told that a certain lawyer was "lying at the point of death," exclaimed: "My gracious! Won't even death stop that man's ly­ ing?" PEOPLE WHO THINK Instance* of Crime Discovered by Hearing People Talk to Themaelve*. "It is interesting to sometimes hear the remarks people make who talk to themselves while walking along the street," said a Pinker ton detective. "They are simply thinking aloud. The habit itself seems altogether foolish, but I can tell you the tenor of some of the expressions is just the reverse. I always make it a point to listen to these one-sided conversations. Now, you may consider that impolite and even mean, but in my business I don't think it so, for detectives sometimes gain valuable information by over­ hearing persons talk to themselves. I remember, years ago, when I was a private detective in this city, how I cleared up a case just in that way. Several thousand dollars had been stolen from a prominent merchant. He suspected his son, a rather fast young man, and employed me to find whether his suspicions were correct I shad­ owed the young fellow closely for weeks, but I couldn't discover a good reason for connecting him with the robbery. Finally, late one night, when I was thinking about giving up the case, I noticed going up Chestnut street, and heard him talking to him­ self. I got up close behind him and listened, and in a minute I knew he was the thief. The affair worried him, and for relief he talked about it to himself, and thus gave the whole thing A more important instance occurred to me in New York, about a year ago. A little girl was found murdered one morning in one of the worst parts of the city. The child had been smoth­ ered to death, and for several weeks I tried to discover the murderer. But I found the person at last, in a most un­ expected manner. It was during the winter, and one bitter cold day, as I was going through Central Park I saw a woman ahead of me acting very strangely. She was poorly dressed, and 1 thought at first that she was in­ toxicated. She was throwing her arms around wildly, and talking to herself. You should have heard that woman. She was raving about a child that was murdered, and called on Heaven to for­ give her for having killed it Then she moaned out something about the child having been cold, and freezing, and starving, and she couldn't see it suffer auy longer. I soon found out that she was the very person I was looking for. Well, I arrested her, but the poor thing died before her trial came off. I was glad she did. "But the funniest things are said by drunken people. I often see comical instances of intoxicated men stagger­ ing home swearing at themselves for getting drunk, and solemnly promising not to do so again. Then again they often have a serious conversation with themselves as to how their wives will receive them when they go home.-- Philadelphia Times. Early English Agriculture. Nothing is more characteristic of the infancy of farming than the violence of its alterations. When roots and grasses were unknown there was no middle course between incessant cropping and barrenness. The fallow was unverit- able Dimanche accorde a la ierre. As with the land, so with its products. Feasting trod on the hills of famine. In the graphic languago of ancient chroniclers, parents in 1270 ate their own children when wheat rose to 336 shillings a quarter, at the present value of money. Except in monastic granges no quantity of grain was stored; a corn- dealer was the caput lupinum of the Legislature. Few remembered to eat within their tether, or to spare at the brink and not at the bottom. In August, 1317, wheat was 80 shillings a quarter; in September following it fell to 6 shillings 8 pence. Equally variable were the employments of agriculture. Months of indolenoe passed suddenly into intense labor. Harvesting in the middle ages meant the return of plenty. On 250 acres in Suffolk, toward the close of the fourteenth century, were grown wheat, oats, peas, barley, and oats. Tue crops were cut and housed in two days. On the first day appeared 30 tenants to perform their" bederepes," and 244 reapers. On the second the 30 tenants and 239 reapers, pitchers, and stackers. Many of tLis assembly were the smaller peasantry on the manor. The rest were wandering bands of "cockers," or harvesters. A cook, brewer, and baker were hired to supply dinner at 9, and supper at 5. Barley and oats, as well as peas and beans, were generally mown; rye and wheat were reaped. But the harvest, as in Roman times, consisted of two op­ erations : The first was to cut the ears, the second to remove part of the straw for thatching; the rest- of the stubble was either grazed, or burned, or plowed in. The crops were wheat, rye, barley, beans, peas, and, in smaller quantities, flax and hemp. Of grain crops, rye was the chief; it is the hardiest, grows on the poorest soils, makes the toughest straw. Rye was then the breadstuff of the peasantry. It was generally mixed with wheat flour. Bread so made was called maslin. Wheat and rye were often sown together. Tusser condemns the practice, "lest rye tarry wheat till it shed as it stand," but it prevailed in Yorkshire in 1797 as a cure for mildew. By itself wheat was seldom sown. Bar­ ley was the drink-corn, as rye the bread-corn, of the middle ages; drage was the commonest and best sort for malting. Oats were extensively culti­ vated in the north, but they were gray1 awned, thin, and poor.. Little manure was used. In inclosed farms all the dung produced was thrown on the "in­ field ;" the "outfield" was neglected. Horses were scarcely used in agricul­ ture. Oxen cost less, are shod only on the fore feet, do more on hilly ground; their gear and winter keep is less ex­ pensive ; they are "mannes meat when dead, while the horse is a carrion."-- The Quarterly Review. • The Incas of Old. N6 MSft can see Peru without won­ dering at the grandeur, the industry, and the intelligence of the Inca Em­ pire. They had arts which the world lias forgotten; knowledge which the world never knew; thrift which their conquerors could never imitate, and wealth which made them the prey of every adventurer of the sixteenth cen­ tury. Their temples and palaces were built of hewn stone from quarries that the Spaniards have not been able to • discover, and the means by which they lifted blocks of granite weighing hun­ dreds of tons is a problem no antiqua­ rian has been able to solve. They knew how to harden copper un­ til it had an edge as keen and enduring as the finest of modern steel; they made ornaments of gold and silver, and cut jewels as skillfully as the lapidaries of to-day, and their fabrics of woolen and cotton are spun and woven as smoothly as modern looms can make. They surpassed modern civilization in many things, and had a system of gov­ ernment under which millions of peo­ ple lived sad labocsd as a single fam fly, with every thing in -common, know­ ing all arts bnt those of war, worship­ ing a deity whose attributes were al­ most parallel to those of the Christain God. Hemmed in on one side by the im­ passable snows of the Andes, and on the other by a desert, lifted above the rest of a world unknown to them, in spirit as well as fact, as peaceful and calm as the Andean atars, they estab­ lish a system of civilization in which, for the first time since creation, the equal rights of every human being were recognized and observed. The great sea beating incessantly against their deaolate ooast was recognized by them as a symbol of the infinite, the omnipotence, whose force and majesty their simple logic could not compre­ hend; while the sun, whose heat and light made existence possible, was rec­ ognized as the source of all good. Hence these two elements, the sun and the ocean, were personified, and were the objects of the Inca's worship.-- Lima letter to Chicago Inter-Ocean. < Egyptian Ruins, Thomost remarkable of the Egypt* ian rains are those of the ancient city of Thebes. The Nile divided that city into four principal divisions: Karnak and Luxor on the east bank, and Gour- nah and Med in at Habu on the west In the locality of the last-named quar­ ter is to be seen a pile of magnificent ruins of buildings begun by Thothmes I., and completed by Rameses III. These buildings have wide courts and gates, and many sculptures represent­ ing the victories of Rameses over the Philistines, the life in his harem, the riches of liis treasury, and a calendar, with inscriptions dated in the twelfth year of his reign. About 8,000 feet from these palaces are the cemeteries of the sacred bulls, and 3,000 feet beyond is the valley of the tombs of the queens, consisting of seventeen sep- ulchers; near them are sixteen mag­ nificent tombs of the monarchs of the nineteenth and twentieth dynasties. At Gournah is to be seen the Mem- noneion, built by Rameses II., with a colossus of that monarch, which origin­ ally weighed 887 + tons, and was the largest statue in Egypt, but is now much broken. In that quarter are also two palace temples of Amenophis III., and the vocal Memnon, or celebrated colossus of that monarch, which was supposed by the ancients to emit a sound at sunrise Here, also, are the tombs of important functionaries .below the rank of king. In the Luxor quar­ ter are several magnificent palaces, with sculptures and obelisks. One of the latter was taken to Paris in 1830, and set up in the Place de la Concorde, in that city. But the most wonderful of the Theban ruins is the Temple of Karnak. Here is a great hall built by Rameses the Great, 70 feet broad and 329 feet long, which has a central ave­ nue of 12 massive columns, 12 feet in diameter and GO feet high, and 122 other columns, 27£ feet in circumfer­ ence and nearly HO feet high; also two obelisks, 92 feet high and 8 feet square. On the site of the ancient city of Mem­ phis are also remarkable ruins; but these have been covered so deeply with the desert sands that comparatively few have been excavated. Here M. Maiiette, in 1850, discovered the Sera- penm, a group of temples dedicated to the Apis, or sacred bull of the ancient Egyptians, and the subterranean tombs wherein, for 7,400 years, had been placed the mummies of these holy ani­ mals. These were placed in magnifi­ cent sarcophagi of granite, and the sepulchral chambers were adorned with sculptured figures in stone and bronze. At Edfou, some miles up the Nile from Thebes, are the remains of two grand temples. The larger of these is 400 feet long and 150 feet broad, and is entered by a gateway 50 feet high, between two immense truncated pylons, 114 feet high and 57 feet wide at the base, and adorned with elaborate sculptured work. At Abousambul, in Nubian Egypt, are two remarkable rock-cut temples, perhaps the oldest specimens of architecture in the world. The larger temple contains fourteen apartments, hewn out of the solid rock. Enormous pillars support ttiese, and by each pillar is the figure of a man; as high as the pillar itself. These are painted with gaudy colors, which are as fresh in hue now, apparently, as when they were put on, more than 3,000 years aga In front of this tem­ ple are four colossal seated figures, each sixty-five feet in height. At Al­ exandra, at Phia>, at Dendarali, Eile- thyia, and at other places, are also many ruins, showing the remarkable achievements of the ancient people of Egypt. At El Ghizeh, near Memphis, are the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx, which, however, have stood for forty centuries as such marvelous monuments of the stability of achievement possible to the fleeting life of man that they can hardly be classed as ruins.--Chi­ cago Inter- Ocean. t | * A Big State. ^»voral traveling men were talking about railroads and the number of States passed through by various lines between eastern and western points. "I've gone from New York to Chica­ go and passed through ten States," said one. "Yes, but you went a 'round-about way. I've done it and only touched five," said another. Two or three more made their state­ ments, and then a hard-looking politi­ cian put in: "Ugh," he grunted, 'you fellows haven't had any experienoe at all. 1 went from Louisville to Washington once, and was in only one state on the whole trip." "Rats!" shouted the crowd, "we know geography better than that You couldn't do it." "I did, all the same." "Name the State; there ain't one in he Union that big," urged the crowd. "Ain't there?" he said, with a wink, "what's the matter with a state of beastly intoxication? Who said let's licker ?" They all said "licker.*--Merchant Traveler. "The Better Half." * The modern wife surpasses in intel­ lectual culture and many-sided merit the wife of all the former times, and the wife being the leading type in wo­ man's world, we must infer the present superiority of her half of the race. If our young men should go on in their career of taking up with business in­ stead of education there will soon be more truth than poetry in the epithet of "Better half." The compliment of to-day may be the fact of to-morrow. ILLINOIS STATE tttMT SOUTHERN ELECTION FRAUDS Senator John Sherman Fur­ nishes Another Supply of ' >Ifepublican Doctrinal! • ONCE wedded for life to an unworthy partner, an error has been made which will rob it of all sweetness or possibil­ ity of joy. Let the young think of this, and let them walk carefully in a land of snares, and take heed to their steps, lest in the most critical event of life they go fatally astray. & Responds to Gov. Hoadly, and Shows How the Colored Vote Is Suppressed by Intimidation and Murder. Hon. John Sherman makes a rejdMflei: to the tecent reply of Judge Hoadly in a speech, a portion of which we herewith print. We call attention to the dignified courteous, and statesmanlike tone of Mr. Sherman's remarks, with the suggestion that its facts and conclusions can neither be answered nor set aside by cries of "bloody shirt." I wish to call your attention to a controversy that has been conducted at long range between Oov. Hoadly and myself, and to anttwer a epeeeh he made recently at Palnesville. „ In my speech at lit. Gilead I said the war «M fgver and the animosities of the war should be ^traried; that 1 would not hold the rebels re- roonslble tor what they did in the war, but that we could not surrender what was won by our soldiers in the war. Among the results of the war I claimed were the liberty and equal oivil and political rights of allcitiiens, including the right to vote without discrimination as to race, color, or condition. 1 charged that the Demo­ cratic party of the £outh had, by fraud and violence, deprived the six million colored citi­ zens of the South of their civil and political rights, and had prevented those entitled by the Constitution ana laws to rote, from exercising that right wherever their vote, if cast, wonid affect the result of the election. I said that by this organised crime the election of Cleveland was made pouible. and that this condition of affairs would never be acquiesced in until every citizen could cast liis leital vote and have it counted. Gov. Hoadly, at Hamilton, undertook to answer my speech, but he neither denied the charge 1 made nor made any defense of his new political associates, but said I was wavinsr the bloody shirt, that 1 was preaching the doctrine of hate and alienation, and that .ludgrt* Foraker and I refused to accept the results of the war. Now to wave the bloody shirt, is considered by sucii new Democrats as Governor Hoadly as a mortal offense. The precise definition or what is wavinir the bloody shirt is not vet settled upon, but any eulogy of the achievements of the Union army, any statement of the blessing won by the civil war, and. especially, anv reference to our friends over the lino as rebels, is get tin « to be offensive to a good Democrat, especially if he is a new convert. While 1 have lite I trust 1 will have the courage to denounce the rebellion and extol the Union cause, and, therefore, to this charge of waving the bloody shirt I make no defense, but will contiuue to'wave it as long as it is bloody, but with charity enough to for­ give all the rebels did in the war, excepting only those who conspired to bring on the war. As to the other charges, I replied at Lebanon that Gov. Hoadly had evaded the issue; that I was not complaining of the results of the war, but insisting upon their observance: that the constitutional amendments, the chief results of the war, granted to the freed men certain rights, chief of which was the right to vote; that the parole of the Confederate soldiers given to Gen. Grant required of thom, as an obligation of duty and honor, to obey those conditions of peace; and that the Democratic party of the South, by crimes unnumbered, had deprived these freedmen of the right to v<»te and of all political power; that the events of which I complained occurred since the war, and were a part and pari el of the organized party policy of the Democratic pHrty, and never had been snd never would be condoned until redressed. I said I would keep this issue before Governor Hoadly as a candidate for Governor of Ohio un­ til he either disputed or defended this enor­ mity, and especially so as he had been with me in political faith and action in the constitu­ tional guarantees of liberty and equality to the freedmen. And now I hare before me his answer, such as it is. He says that I "seek to revive and enlist feel­ ings whiqh the war engendered, the spirit of animosity to the South, to renew the battle fever, snd to remind the parents and relatives of the men who died in the field, or in hospitals, or in Southern prison*, of their sufferings, in order that he may reap the reward in emolu­ ment and salary." 1 deny it. He is the first who in this debate has referred to these cruel incidents of the war. What I claim is that many of these men who were rebels, with their party associates, de­ prive millions of citizens of the I'nited States, more justly entitled to the consideration of a free people than they are, of the dearest rights of human nature. Does Gov. Hoadly deny this? He does not, but states a fact which adds enormously to the offense. He says that, though the Ilepublican party has been in power for many years, it was unable, under the limitations of the Constitu­ tion, to prevent the atrocities I have charged. Gen. Grant attempted this, and exercised to the utmost the powers he possessed over the armv and navy to protect the freedmen of the South; but it was manifest that the force of tlie army at his command was insufficient, and public sentiment would not allow the employment of military toree in such numbers as was neces­ sary to protect the freedmen of the South Does it lessen the crime that it remains unpunished? What the Republican i arty did was within the line of duty and the law. It could not furnish an effective remedy without an open renewal of the war, from which men of nil parties shrank. But is the crime committed in the name of the Democratic party the less because it was with­ out remedy? That party was composed in the !-outh of white men who had been rebel soldiers, or who sympathised with them, thouuh in a minority of the legal voters in several of the Southern States, and was so strong that, aide l by secret armed organisa­ tions called Ku-klnx Klaus and the like, they were able by terror and violence to overawe the majority of the voter.-", largely compused* of freedmen. Appeals were made to Congress fpr the enforcement of the constitutional atneritf- ments. In the month of March, inn, General Grant, President of the I'nited States, sent a message to Congress calling its attention to the condition of affairs in the Southern States, which, he said, rendered life and property inse­ cure, and the carrying of the mails and the col­ lection of the revenue dangerous. He also stated that the power to correct these evils was beyond the control of the State authorities, and that the power of the Executive of the United States, acting within the limits of existing laws, was insufficient. Thereupon Congress passed an act to enforce the provisions of the four­ teenth amendment, and also appointed a joint seleet committee of the two houses to examine into the affairs of the late insurrectionary States. This examination is contained in thir­ teen volumes, and the report of the committee by Mr. Poland was inade in February, 187'i, upon the testimony of great multitudes of wit­ nesses, including many of the highest officers of the army and persons in civil life. The evi­ dence was conclusive that in the States south of Virginia anarchy prevailed, that secret armed bands committed murder and every crime knuwu in the decalogue with a view to deprive the freedmen of civil and political rights. The courts were powerless when juries would not convict upon the clearest testimony. Every effort was made to enforce the law, but failed through the organized resistance of the Demo­ cratic partv. This continued until 1875, when what is called the Mississippi plan was pot into successful execution by the Democratic party in that State, with the avowed purpose of disfranchising the mass of the Republicans of that State. At that time Gen. Ames, a man of unblemished charac­ ter and honor, was Governor of the St ite by the vote of the majority of the people. A military organization was effected in the name of the Democratic party, by which the members of that party were armed and organized, and at the day fixed for the general election th'y, by force and violence, in many cases accompanied by murder, seized upon the power of the State and subverted the government. This matter was again examined into by a committee of the Senate, and the report made by Senator Bout- well shows unmistakably that the object of their seizure was to prevent the freedmen from exercising the elective franchise, and from that day to this there has been scarcely a pre­ tense that they can vote in that State, or, if they vote, that their vote will be counted. In the Presidential election of 1876 the Missis­ sippi plan was adopted in iff! the cotton States, and the evidence taken before the returning officers of those States, after that election was over, shows that the same plan of intimidation was practiced with even more bloody results than in Mississippi, with a view to prevent the colored people from voting, but fortunately the laws of those States provided for canvassing the vote and rejecting the vote of counties or par­ ishes where the election had been controlled by fraud and violence. In the States of l.ouisiara. South Carolina, and Florida the returns of these officers, accompanied by the testimony taken In open session, showed conclusively that but for the frauds and crimes committed these States would have been largely Republican, and that by excluding the counties and parishes where fraud or violence prevailed, President Hayes re­ ceived their electoi at votes. There is not a shadow of doubt that if the election had been fair in all the cotton States they would, with the possible exception of Georgia, have voted the Republican ticket. Governor Hoadly, with a strange perversity for one who has been a Republican, sees no harm or wrong in the open deprivation of the colored voters of their franchise, and repeats again the oft-refuted story that President Hayes was declared elected by means of a fraud, when the only fraud or wrong committed in these States was i y the Democratic party up­ on weak and unoffending freedmen, whom thev deprived of their votes. From the day of that election there has been in all the South a prac­ tical deprivation of the colored people of their right to vote, but instead of violence the fraud of tissue ballots, and a false count and return, is the common and easier mode. Gov. Hoadlv insists that because the Re­ publican party could find no remedy for the wrongs comm tted upon the freedmen no wrong was committed. Thi-* does not follow. It may be that the Republican uarty failed to grapple with the second rebellion of the South With the energy demanded by the gravity of the •ffense. but at that time the resort to extreme measures was not in harmony with public Sentiment or the strong desire of the Republi­ can ftntv teawsM acteal CMMM. ML tl erwdtnthls rapes*, does it follow that this ex­ ample of the overthrow of the rights of a whole race should be forgotten and condoned? Shall the solid South, maintained by fraud and violence. !>e continued a controlling element in our politics? Are we prepared to have six millions of people deprived of their constlto- tional lights, as a festeringeore in the politics Of the future? Shall we have a population larger than that of Inland complaining of an injustice far greater than ever wan inflicted upon the Irish people? Shall the promoters of this wrong, as a reward of their crime, enjoy increased political power over an equal num­ ber of people in the North? Shall ten thon- sand rebels and Democratic voters in Missis­ sippi elect a member of Congress when it re­ quires aO.OOO voters in Ohio to have the same representation? Gov. Hoadly thinks nothing should be said about it; that we must not wound the feelings of the men who committed this grave offense; that to do so is to wave the bloody shirt and to revive the recollections of the war. He asks, as Tweed asked: "What will you do about it?" He, professing to be a friend of the colored men. has no remedy to offer, no advice to give them except to vote with their former masters and the Ku-klux Klan. He thinks, as they are Kindly people, they will do so If we can believe the testimony of every living witness who has spoken upon the subject, the colored man, if allowed to vote, will, with­ out exception, vote with the Republican party, that has secured him his freedom, and will pro­ tect him, to the extent of its powtr, in his po­ litical rights. I trust that I will always have the courage to denounce the wrong that has been done him and do my part toward seeking a remedy. I said at Mt. Gilead that I think an appeal should be made to the honor and good faith of the Sonth to faithfully fulfill their parole of honor, and obey the constitutional amend­ ments, and I, as one, would be willing to make that appeal whenever 1 thought it would be heard or heeded. Gov. Hoadly asks why 1 did not go Sonth and try to pesnade my country­ men that it was their duty to right the wrong. He knows as well as any one that this appeal would have been met in large portions of the South with the shotgun. Hundreds of brave men living in the South, with property there and interests there, have been driven from the stand by armed ruffians, when they sought to exercise the freedom of speech. A gentleman known to Gov. Hoadly, Gen. VVillard Warner, while a Senator from the State of Alabama, wae prevented from speaking to his constituents by just such violence, and hundreds of Instances are shown in the public records where free dis­ cussion was accompanied by murder or whole­ sale violence. Bnt I do believe that there is now in the South a feeling that the best inter­ ests oF tlielr people is that every legal voter should be allowed to vote and have his vote; counted. I am encouraged in tills belief by many leading citizens of the Sonth, and by the gallant contest now being made by Gen. Ma- hone and .lolin S. Wise. In Virginia, who have made, and are now making this appeal. I be­ lieve the Republicans in the South heartily sympathize in this movement. They do not in any degree object to a Confederate holding an office of honor, trust, or profit, bnt only ask that he shall be willing to observe and respect the rights of others. The Republican policy of protection to indus­ try, free schools, and internal development and improvement, accompanied with an honest vote, and an honest count, would win favor with the Southern people, if only it could be presented in open discussion free from the hate and sectional feeling growing out of the civil war. That has been the feeling in the North, and but for the interest and policy of the Dem­ ocratic party in maintaining a solid South, it would prevail in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, while an honest election at any time, in any State south of these, except Texas, would give a Republican majority. Gov. Hoadly says that if the solid Sonth will still deny to the colored people the right to rote, representation cannot be reduced under the fourteenth amendment, because 1 cannot point out the State law that in tern's excludes them from voting- It is tor each house to judge of the election of its members. If the Constitu­ tion of the I'nited States, which confers the right to representation's in fact disregarded by a State, or >within a State, each house will judge for Itself wh< ther members and Senators are elected according to the Constitution, and the case may arise when this will be its bounden duty. Gov. Hoadlv says that the Republican party depends in Tennessee on fraudulent voting. The only evidence of this groundless statement is that the Republicans of Tennessee opposed the passage of a registry law m that State to be administered by the Democratic party. I do not know the grounds of this opposition, bnt 1 can easily conceive that they do not care to leave the Democratic party the chance to prac­ tice frauds under a registry law as well as un­ der their favorite way of a change ot the re­ turns. A fair registry law, honestly adminis­ tered, is a restraint upon fraud, bnt it la no re­ straint upon a change of ballots or a fraudulent return. Does not Gov. Hoadly know that all the historic frauds at elections from the time of the Pla<iuemine frauds at the election of 1884 to tills time are the exclusive work of the liemo- cratic party? "Help fin- Cleveland!** A Bourbon newspaper pubfashafl at the National Capital hysterically ap­ peals to the Democracy of the country to uphold the President in his "hand- to-hand struggle" with the "worst ele­ ment of his party." The organ fails to indicate who constitute the worst element, though it holds generally that it is made up "of the remnants of that class of Democracy which represents all that is most evil and mischievous in Politics." This is slightly indefinite. 'he impartial observer may say that these remnants are plenty in the Bour­ bon party. Because they have been abundant the Bourbons were kept out of power in the nation for twenty-four years--and ought to have been kept out longer. But how are those vicious Bourbons attacking the President ? Those of them not already appointed by him are appealing for office. Bis greatest trouble appears to arise from the fact that there are too many of them, and being so much alike he finds it difficult to choose among them. The Higginses, Pillsburys, Thompsons, and the rest are making trouble for the President. He tries to satisfy them, but the offices will not go around. IT is the veriest nonsense to talk of drawing a lesson from "the verdict of the people" in the election of Novem­ ber last. The decision adverse to the Republican party was rendered by the bummer *wards of New York City and Brooklyn, re-enforced, or backed, by a solid Mouth, where elections are un­ known, and the river counties of Indi­ ana, which are soaked in Kentucky prejudice. This is not exactly the kind of jury the Ilepublican party has been in the habit of respecting, and, instead of shaping the party's honorable policy to fit such a perversion of the country's best judgment, an appeal will be taken and the case carried again to the court of public opinion. As well might a just and honorable man abandon those principles whidi have made him honor­ able because a suborned jury had de­ cided one case against him in a half- dozen in the course of a quarter of a century. The first work to do is to im­ peach the jury, and to have the finding set aside.- Indianapolis Journal. WAS only gave the constitutional right to wipe out slavery; but every apportionment gives the constitutional opportunity to reduce the representa­ tion of any State which directly or by neglect refuses to give to its citizens an equal suffrage and its free exercise. Years of agitation may pass before this constitutional right is exercised; but exercised it will be. Agitation is need­ ed ; the pitiless iteration of facts, and the tireless demand for justice will go on for years. Before the wrong is righted, it may be that the whole na­ tion will be tired of the issue. It grew very tired of abolition and Abolition­ ists; but we do not recollect that this fact stopped the denunciation of slav­ ery. Nor will anything short of justice to every voter quiet the "bloody-shirt" issue.--Phiktdelphia Press. THE New York World says "the spoils politicians must go, and we are in favor of real civil service reform." This reminds us of an old fellow who told wonderful shooting exploits, and proved them by his colored servant, j Upon one occasion he told of killing a buck by shooting him through the hind foot and the head with the same bullet. "Now, ain't that so?" "Yes," said Ned, "de buck was jist scratching his ear wid his hoof when you pulled de trigger." When they were alone, Ned remarked, "Masser Colonel, when yer wants ter lie next time, don't make de p'ints so fur apart "--^Chicago Inter Ocean. --At Joliet James H. Svan was ele«t*<tr ; President of the Illinois Universalist A*« sociation. --Eight persons at Champaign were se«. riously poisoned by some article of diet supposed to have been sngar. ri --At Chicago, William Smith Fut ̂ - ^ Pickard, was sentenced to nine" years ia** 7^ the penitentiary for tihetfurdet of Tbomaf |»| Ashton. --Tho one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Anna Wort ey, of Shaw Station, near Amboy, was celebrated Sep^ ";*f tember 18. --The largest pumpkin ever grown % , Piatt County, weight 166 pounds, oircuuf* s ference 7 feet and 1 inch, is now on exhi»K t bition in Monticello. , , . S • --Judge Hughes has condemned tlM •, VI r; Paris Court House as being unsafe, an l̂. . ordered the officers to procure a suitably : place to hold court until a new edifice cap, be erected. V --The State Fair was a great succes^ ' ̂ having from 35,000 to 40,000 visitors a day. Chicago has an unlimited capacity for en- , ,f tertaining visitors without inconvenience, * f --Inter Ocean. --The Howard farm, situated near Ke%> ;r ney, DeWitt County, was sold at the Contt, . ̂ 1 House, in Clinton, to Dr. Fruit, of Kenney^ for $00.50 per acre. The farm is a fine on^ and contains about 100 acres. --Alice May Lott, daughter of a respect- ^ ed resident of Freeport, committed suicid^ A broken engagement and a subsequent affection for a roller-rink professor, wb»* has recently been discovered to be a mar* ** ried man; are said to have preyed on tba' Jj- !4&iS i * « i •ima'- & girl's mind and resulted in her death Vtf *' laudanum. / ' --A South Clark street pawnbroker flM* preparing to get a ran on revolvers of <$# life-sized wild-western type by marking one as the property of "Jessy James." Am*;} fast as one is sold the placard can be at«H •- tachedto another, and any number of valtt* able originals, mementos of a notoriot(*, t bandit who did not have a in his nam%, ,. can come into the proud possession of tfait gullible public.--Inter Ocean. --Two women from the interior of thljjf^j! Btate, who were in town to sea the woa|* ^ ders of the State Fair, occupied a room it ? one of the European hotels on State street and upon retiring blew out the gas. Thegr were discovered before they were quit*. dead. After all these years of political agitation in Central Illinois it is surprising^ that even a woman can be found who is a» - ; densely ignorant as not to understand thjt^ |- proper uses of gas.--Chicago News. --William Blanke, a German farmer, ^ siding on the Homestead farm in BlueMound Township, tear Decatur, accidentally shot and killed his young wife at his home,'* Blanke and two other men were in thtf' < - house trading revolvers in the presence of the young woman, who had her baby a year ; old in her arms. Saddenly the pistM Blanke had in his haud Was discharged, the "" bullet entering the breast of his wife, juafc • ' • above the heart, death resulting vithina fe# . minutes. , •-w'" v • ' • ft- --Dixon is in a great state 'of agitatiofe t 0 over the murder of Fred Thiel, whose body s was found partly eoncealed under a bridgl̂ with the throat cut and a mortal wound as the head. It is not known how long tlty*, ; remains lay concealed, but a young mH| named Jacob Mosse, was. arrested on sui» ;r picion of having committed the murdel^ ' certain circumstances pointing strongly im' \ . i his direction. The murdered man was ^ p , , book canvasser for Messrs. Gatley & Civ, of Chicago. This is the first tragedy that has occurred in Dixon in thirty yean. v --Frank Mulkowski, the alleged • derer of Mrs. Agnes Kledziek, is prisoner hardest to please of all those 1q durance vile in the Chicago JaiL He cigars of all who pass his cell, and gets a good many of (he "two-for-five" kind and, some "ten-cent straights." He is fastidl- ously particular not to come down stairs to "' be interviewed, except when told to do sA:> by a regular officer of the jail, and has d«* dared that he "knew something about tlS^'1"* laws of this country," and would not stirfi , ' _ step hereafter when a prisoner called hint. ,; ;t Recently two nicely dressed women, wh» *f'¥ • were visiting the jail, passed Mulbowski'4 •' cell, and, not knowing what his crime wa|» ' „ in response to his importuning gave him'a ; twenty-five cent silver coin. When thdy' had moved into another part of the jail andi learned that their alms had been receive®1 • " / J ^ by a wretch charged with a crime of tti f foulest nature imaginable to the humali ** ̂ ,1 mind, they decided to get the money back. ^ Reappearing at Mulkowski's cell, tbe alm«t ^ H giver held out a fifty-cent piece, and saufy '•*' 4^ in German: "Return me the fWfenty-five ^ cent piece I gave you, and you may haW*** this." Mulkowski poked the twenty-five cent piece through the bars, and the womail" ' ',?t pocketed both coins and walked away. ^ ! t 'J 4* 1 Palmed ̂ ̂ ' Hotel Tips. [From the Chicago Tribune.] About a year ago Mr. Potter adopted the system of requiring the porteri at his hotel to turn in all "tips" receive# <? from guests to the office, and he is said be considering the practicability of apply- ^ ing the same system to the waiters. ! 1 Speaking of the matter. Clerk Probot* * -« - said the plan had worked very wfU wiik" ? the porters, and will probably be tried w|tiL J, \ tbe waiters very soon. "It was Mr. Palm- " ; M er's idea in adopting the plan/' he cootie*.' ued, "to stop the 'tips' altogether. Whe* a man comes to this hotel and pays $4.50-*^* and $5 a day he is entitled to the best service the house has without the payment^ *'•; of money to 6ervauts whom Mr. Palmer if s ;*j amply able to pay and does pay himself. ,^4 , ' As soon as the public understands that i* . i < S paying the porters it simply goes to hotel the 'tips' cease. Our rates are pretty, *' ^ high, and when a* man p*ys them he wî '"";- not pay any more, knowingly. "\es; 'tips' are all wrong,* MM said a travel* iner-man standing near by. "On* assotiai^ tion is going to endeavor to put a stop the imposition." ' " This hotel allows every porter and wait* er to keep what they get," said Warren FliM-' Leland. "The Lelands have never beei>-' v guilty of taking from their employes what was freely given them." At the Grand Pacific the bootblacks am , > J paid by the day, and turn in to the officii v ^ the money they receive. Outside of tha% +."s»-sv nothing of the kind is done, the porters* <*• ^ n and waiters keeping what they get, wliicbfc t. n, sometimes amounts to a nice sum. It wa% said to be impossible to compel porters ©if.,. ^ waiters to account for tips, even if it wera , desired to do so, and "the proprietors ha^ 1 no intentions of entering upon any pica- ^ , yune policy." The same is true of the j, Sherman and Tremont. It would seeing (, j"*-,. that even in hotelkeeping there is a differ- ' . ence of opinion on the eternal fitness of * things. --The late Emerv A Storm is said: to have woTtHr^ktie a seeond tim*