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ILLINOIS 4EW8. Ml from the State of Illinois, says that the XUHUtlCiUCt ! population aggregates 3,100,000. No i State in the Union can show a greater J. VAN SLYKE, -Editor and Publisher. • percentage in growth of population, -- •. ---- I manufactories, and all that goes to make McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. j up internal prosperity than Illinois will --i----•----------• | show in the forthcoming census report. repOJ^. Q{ gnajjpjai condition of i Chicago has been made through Robert P. Porter, special agent in charge of PEAK trees in Southern Illinois appear "to be afflicted with a blight. THE Bloomington city Hferary has been closed on account of lack of sup­ port by the public. statistics of wealth, debt and taxation, iix the census office. This report shows | that the total value of real property in : Chicago is $91,152,229; of personal J property, $2-4,906,482 ; railroads, SI,- 1 E. V. WiN(ii:T, for twelve years Post- ] 911,321; aggregate, $117,970,035. Re­ master at Tolono, died a few days since, after a short illness. THE City Marshal of Springfield had pat an end to 375 dogs, at last accounts, and was still on the war path. HON. JEHU BAKED, United States Minister to Venezuela, is expected at his home in Belleville early in Septem­ ber. Streets, Including bridges and viaducts 255,993 i Sewers 219,467 Water. '. 717,MoT Sanitary purposes. 53,475 Lighting. 2H6.H67 Fire Department 410,275 • Police... ' Parks and public spaces ! Public Library I Municipal buildings.. Salaries j Interest ! Other purposes 444.186 6,440 30,2Qti 179,270 62,201 632,569 159.187 ceipts from taxation for the year 1879 j were $3,612,633 ; from water rent, $883,- 684; from rent of wharves, $1,095; liquor licenses, $163,540; vehicle li- ; censes, $11,089 ; from all other licenses, $44,648; fines, $16,600; foreign insur­ ance companies, $10,990; interest on mortgage fees, etc., $1,980 ; school-fund interest and State dividend, $256,914; total receipts from all sources, $5,013,- Two BIO crops of wheat in Macoupin i 230. The expenditures for the same -county has increased the rental of land, j time were as follows : and the price of real estate has gone up Schools $ 726,883 all around. °* THE Sangamon county tax sales amounted to between $8,000 and $10,000 in the city of Springfield, and $3,000 to $5,000 in the county. THE fifteenth annual -reunion of the One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois vol­ unteers will be held at Bradford, Stark county, Sept. 22. JOHN PLAINS, of Belvidere, claims to have been in continuous trade longer ^than any merchant in the Northwest, Chicago or Gralena not even excepted. THE accidental discharge of a revolver instantly killed N. Stevenson, in Piano, recently. A Dane, who was not ac­ quainted with revolvers, had the weapon in his hand. WHILE Billy Hardin, a Lincoln boot­ black, was rummaging around tn old deserted business block, one day last week, he found a package of mutilated .greenbacks amounting to $300. BY applying the statute of limitations the Illinois Court of Claims, now in ses­ sion at Springfield, has barred claims amounting in all to about $100,000, or about one-fifth of the whole amount ap­ plied for. A PETITION is in circulation in differ­ ent paits of the State, and will be pre­ sented in the next Illinois Legislature, praying that body to "pass a law to abolish the grand-jury system in this State." THE widow of the late Col. R. G. Lauglilin, of Bloomington, not long ago received $3,200 back pension acquired by her husband, and the more recent notification that she is entitled to $30 a month, dated back to December, 1878. AT a public election in Paris, Edgar •county, the other day, it was decided by Total $4,138,000 The total bonded indebtedness of the city is $13,043,000. The amount of the sinking fund is $248,728. It was estab­ lished in February, 1863, for liquidation of sewerage, school and bonded debt. The assets of the city are as follows : Buildings , $2,117,985 Fire apparatus and fire-alarm telegraph. .. 477,819 Police furniture and equipments* 19,251 Ileal estate ' "... 1,832,328 School furniture 132,345 Street lamps and posts 326,460 Water workn 8,541,818 MinceHaneoun property owned by city , 10,488 Taxes of 1879 and prior years remaining unsettled Dec. 31, 1879 4,233.901 Mortgages and bills receivable held by city. 66,707 Due from city officials 627,073 Cash in city treasury and in bonds of city fiscal agent* Dec. 31, 1879 1,974,860 This makes a total amount of $20,- 361,130. . PITH AM) POINT. EVEN the laziest boy can catch a lick­ ing. THE girl who chalks her cheeks thinks it is better to mark the miss than miss the mark. " How SAD !" exclaimed one blade of a pair of scissors to the other ; " how sad ! We only meet to sever !" THE compositor who set up " pimpled chops" for "dimpled cheeks" didn't look a bit natural in death.--Modern Argo. "HANDS wanted on boys' pants," is a majority of 353 to take down the old | the daily advertisement in the newspa- seminary and build on its sitea public i pers. 'Twas always thus from childhood's school house worth $22,000. The semi nary has been a feature of Paris for thirty-five years. THE disbursements of the Illinois State treasury during the month of July amounted to $897,868.63, of which I $7 ,726.77 was for interest on the State j debt, and $564,514.71 for interest on local registered bonds ; $412,240.65 of the disbursements for interest was paid by the State Treasurer in New York city. The State debt is now about $260,000 only, which will be paid in January. 1881. THE growth of Western cities has been •so great that the Postoffice Department hour. "You never saw my hands as dirty as that," said a petulant mother to her lit­ tle girl. " No, but your ma did," was the reply. AN old farmer said of his clergyman, whose sermons lacked point, " He's a good man, but he will rake with the teeth upward!" THE farmer understands human na­ ture who said : "If you want your boy to stay at home, don't bear too hard on the grindstone when he turns the crank." THE jewel of a servant girl is the one of new money-order offices. The fol­ lowing offices were made money-order offices, to take effect Aug, 2, in Illinois : Ashmore, Atkinson, Belle River, Ben- senviile, Coble, Crescent City, Culloin, Farina, Grand Crossing, Green Valley, Grove City, Jeffersonville, New Burn- side, Palatine, Patoka, Ransom, Rose- mond, Tiskilwa, Van Orin, Vermont, Wauconda. :DV 111 («> II i(Uv X VO tv/iUV. I; X/C Llllli tXIICUli 1 1 t| « • . • | • i « has been obliged to establish a number ! wh? hanS8 al1 mistress embroidered - -- underwear on that portion of the line | most conspicuous to the neighbors' I eyes. j " CAN dogs find their way home from j | ap- long distance ? " says an exchange, j It's according to the dog. If it's one ! you want to get rid of, he can find his I way home from California. If it's a good ! one, he's apt to get lost if he goes J around the corner. | THE report of the engineer in charge ! *' animals color-blind ? " asks a j shows that the cost of the Chicago outer ! scientific journal. Well, our opinion is, \ harbor, thus far, has been $662,878, and j ^ that querist were to put on a red shirt | the harbor is practically completed, with ; undertake to go across a lot contain- j the exception of some' dredging to give i a bull, he could most satisfactorily j sixteen feet at low water. The appro- answer that question without submitting j priations for the current fiscal year will j ^ the press.-- Waterloo Observer. j be expended in this dredging and in j ROWLAND, aged 3 (noticing a scar on commencing the proposed exterior : the hand of paterfamilias, from a per- breakwater, intended to afford a harbor Cussion-cap splinter)--" How did you of refnge m"deep water. For the next j hurt vour hand, papa?" P.--"I was fiscal year $300,000 is asked for. For shooting yesterday." R.--" What did the completion of the work in Calumet 1 you sh00t? " P.--" Well, I shot and hit harbor, $50,000is asked for. A minimum i a target." R.--" And did the target bite depth of four feet has been secured for your finger ' " the?iirnn?n5T-r' TV? C°FNTIRIUING th! "WHY, Bridget," said her mistress, work $500,000 is asked for for the next ' e ' ' fiscal vear. who wished to rally the girl, for the amusement of her company, upon the •lltnoiM State Horticultural Society-* j fantastic ornamenting of a plate of but- MORRIS, HI., Aug. 5. ; ter. "Why, Bridget, did you do this? ^o the Fruit-Growers of Illinois: You're quite an artist; how did you do This society has determined to make ^ ?" "Iudade, mum, it was myself that r .i • did it," replied Bridget. " Isn't it prit- ty, mum ? I did it with your fine-tooth comb, mum." A TALL, slab-sided Yankee, who an exhibition in competition premiums offered to State societies by the Mississippi Valley Horticultural So­ ciety at its exposition in Merchants' Ex­ change Building, St. Louis, Sept 7, 8 and 9, 1880. You are earnestly requested to corn- strolled down Manhattan beach last Monday, on seeing the bevy of beauties disp'orting in the waves, burst into a fit of enthusiasm. "Je-ru-sa-lem ! if that FZffJZ s^fetv; ' don> iest remind me ri something good «What is that !" re-and your collection will aid our society, as it will be counted also as a part of this society's exhibit. If you have not received the premium list please write at once to S. M. Tracy, GOO Olive street, St. Louis, and procure the list of the most liberal premiums ever offered for fruits on this continent. No doubt the display will for transcend all previous exhibitions of fruits and flowers ever held in America. The hall is the most magnificent on the continent, lighted by electric lights and gor­ geously decorated. Two art associations exhibit in connection with the horticult­ ural exhibition, which will greatly in­ crease the attractions of the exposition. All the semi-tropical fruits of the Gulf States will there l>e found in profusion, in their freshness and richness. Parties in Illinois who cannot attend' and who have choice samples of fruit are re­ quested to forward them, each specimen caarefully labeled, wrapped and packed, to N. J. Coleman, St. Louis. Perishable fruits sent previous to exhi­ bition, for preservation, must be directed to N. J. Coleman, care St. Louis Fruit we have to hum. marked a friend, who heard him. " What is it?" said Jonathan, smacking his lips ; " 'lasses in water." WE have endured, with commendable patience, the appalling phantom of the young man who wears two watches; with Christian resignation and patience we have borne with the young man who wears his watch in the outside pocket of his coat, but when we meet the elegant youth who wears his silk-embroidered socks outside his slippers to show the monogram on the toes, there is going to be bloodshed, and don't you forget to remember it.--Burlington Hawk-Eye. A SMALL boy who lives in Brooklyn, is very fond of drinking coffee at break­ fast-time, and his mother does not want him to drink it He is also fussy about what he eats--saying he doesn't like this or that Recently his mother, after refusing to give him coffee, was chiding him for saying that he didn't like some­ thing that was on the table, and told him he must eat what other people ate. said he, with an injured ' W6ll OAAVA lie n 4LI1 (>11 House, 708 South Third street, express | look J.. u f-ve got to' take wUat other charges prepaid. Mark packages sent j 'le ^ bri£ cu coffee." immediately previous to the exhibition, | ' p J N. J. Coleman, St Louis, Mo. Small packages of extra-fine fruit, de- signed to aid our State Society, and not for individual exhibition, should be so •designated on outside of box, and if a Eremium is secured the expressage will e refunded. Apples, pears, peaches and grapes are especially solicited. Send several spec­ imens of each variety of the first three, ! Jay Gould's Profit* for a Year. I Jay Gould's winnings during the last ! year are variously estimated, but on my j reckoning his capital has been rolling up i like a snow-ball. A year ago he sold 100,000 shares of Union Pacific for about $7,500,000. Then he l>ought a control- ing interest in Kansas Pacific, which was at 12, for about $600,000, and in the next and from one to five pounds of grapes of j &i* months the stock rose to 92, netting -each variety. 1 $4,000,000. Wabash was at 18 when Let Illinois do credit to her horticult- i Gould bought, some say, two-thirds of ure in this grand exhibition. By order of the President,- O. B. GALUSHA, Secretary. CeUMUtt StattaticM. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Thirties says that an officer at the Censu3 Bureau, who has footed up the returns the stock, and it rose later to 68$. His profits on the consolidation of the St. Louis Northern (which he bought at and saw rise to 47) and Wabash are put at $4,850,000. In all, by spending about ; $3,850,000 for stocks, Gould has netted j $11,000,000 if he were to sell out-- I Wall Street Daily News. SEN. 6ABFIELD. Hl» Speeefc In New York--A GlowlBf Exposition of the tiraad Idea* for Whirh We Foufht Dawn the Be* bellion. COMRADES, AND BOYS IN BLTTK, AND FEIXOW- OmzEire OF NEW YOBK : I cannot look npon this great assemblage and these old veterans that have marched past us, and listen to the welcome from onr comrade who has just . 8i!okcn, without remembering how great a thing it is to live in this Union and be part of it This is New York, and yonder, toward the •Battery, more than 100 years ago, a young stu­ dent of Colombia College was frguing the ideas of the American Revolution and American Union against an American loyalty to the mon­ archy of his college President and professors. By-and-by he went to the patriot army, was placed on the staff of Washington, to fight the battles of his country, and while in camp, be­ fore he was 21 years old, upon a drumhead he wrote a letter which contained every germ of the constitution of the United States. That student soldier, statesman, and great leader of thought A1"xrmder Hamilton, of New York, made this republic glorious by his thinking and left his lasting impression upon New York, the foremost State of the Union, and hereon this island, the scene of his early triumphs. We go there to­ night, soldiers of a new war representing the same ideas of union and glory, and adding to the column of the monument that Hamilton and Washington and the heroes of the Revolution re,i red. Gentlemen, ideas outlive men. Ideas outlive all things, and those who fought in the war for the Union fought for immortal ideas, and by their might you crowned our war with victory. But victory was worth nothing, except for the fruits that were under it, in it., and above it. We ought to-night as veterans and com­ rades to stand sacred guards around the truths for which we fought, and. while we have life to meet and grasp the hand of a comrade, we will stand by the great truths of the war. And, comrades, among the connections of that war which have sunk deep in our hearts there are some we can never forget Think of the great elevating spirit of the war itself. We gathered boys from all of our farms and shops and schools and homes from all over the republic ; thea they went forth unknown to fame, but re­ turned enrolled on the roster immortal he­ roes. They went in the spirit of those soldiers of Henry at Agincourt, of whom it is said: Who this day sheds his blood with me, to-day shall be my brother. Were he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his con­ dition." And it did gentle the condition and elevate the heart of every working soldier who fought in it And he shall be our brother for­ ever more, and we will remember our allies who fought with us. Soon after the great strtiggle began we looked behind the army of white rebels and saw 4,000,000 of black people con­ demned to toil as slaves for our enemies, and we found that the hearts of these 4,000,000 were God-inspired with the spirit of liberty, and that they were our friends. We have seen" white men betray the flag and tight to kill the Union, but in all ihat long and dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin. Our prisoners es­ caping from the starvation of prison, fleeing to our lines bv the light of the North star, never fea:ed to enter a black man's cabin and ask for bread. . [" Good. good. That's so."] In all that period of sufTeriug and danger no Union soldier was ever betrayed by a black man or woman. And now that we have made them free so long as we live we will stand by the black citizens. We will stand by them until the sun of liberty fixed in the firmament of our consti­ tution shall shine with equal rays upon every man, black or white, throughout the Union. Now, fellow-citizens, fellow soldiers, in all this there is the beneficence of eternal justice, and by this we will stand forever. The great poet has said that in individual life we rise "on the stepping-stones of our dead selves to higher tilings, and the republic rises on the glorious achievements of its dead and living heroes to higher and nobler national life. We must stand guard over our past as soldiers, as patri­ ots, and over our country as the common fi rit- age of us all. I thank you, fellow-citizens, for this magnificent demonstration. In so far as I represent in my heart and life the grest doctrines lor which you fought, I ac­ cept this demonstration as a tribute to my rep- r sentative character. In the strength of your hands, in the fervor of your hearts, in the firm­ ness of your faith, iu all that betokens the great­ ness of manhood and the nobleness oLcharac­ ter, the republic finds its security and glory. I do not enter upon controverted questions. The time, tlie place, the situation forbid it. I re­ spect the traditions that require n e to speak on y of those themes which elevate us alL Again I thank you for the kindness and enthusiasm of your greeting. (•en. <>a.rfield'K Atldrcae at ('hautan* qua--An UKiqucnt Tribute to Labor. FELI,OW-CITIZENS : You have done so much to me since I arrived on this shore that I am quite unable to tell what sort of a man I am this morning. I had never been here and really did not know what you were doing. Last evening I asked Mr. Vincent rather brusquely to tell me what Chautauqua means-- what your work here means--and he filled me so full of your idea that I have not yet assimi­ lated it so as to be quite sure what man I am since I got hold of it; but this I see, you are struggling with one of the two great .problems of civilization : The first one is a very old ques­ tion, " How shall we get leisure? " That is the object of every hammer-strike, of every blow that labor has struck since the foundation of the world. The tight for bread is the great primal fight, and it is so absorbing a stmggle that, until one conquers to some extent, he can have no leisura. We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters--first, the fight to get leisure, and second, w hat to do with our leisure when we have won it. I take it that Chautauqua has assailed this second Croblom. Like all blessings, leisure is a very ad tiling unless it is well used. The man with a fortune ready made and with leisure on his bands is likely to get sick of the world, sick of himself, tired of life, and l>ecome a useless, wasted man. What shall you do with your business ? I understand Chautauqua is trying to develop new energies, largeness of mind and culture in the better sense, with the varnish scratched off, as our friend Gov. Kirkwood savs. We are getting over the fashion of paint- iiur and varnishing our native woods. We are getting down to real grain, and finding what­ ever is best and most beautiful in it, and, if Chautauqua is helping to develop in eur people the rativc stuff that is in them, rather than to give them the varnish and gewgaws of culture, it is doing well. Chautauqua, then, has filled me with thought, and. in addition to that, you have tilled me with gratitude for your kindness, and for this great spontaneous greeting in early morning, earlier than men of leisure get up. Some of these gentlemen of the press aronnd me look distressed at the early rising by which you have compelled our whole party to" look at the early sun. The greeting on the lake slope toward the sun is verv precious to me, and I thank you all. This is a mixed audience of citizens, and I will not offend the proprieties of the occasion by discussing controverted ques- tionsor entering upo i any political discussion. I look in the faces of men of all shades of opin­ ion, but, whatever our party difficulties, I trust there is in all this audience a love of our bene­ ficent institutions which makes it jjossible for free labor to earn leisure, and for institutions to make that leisure worth something. Our Union and onr institutions, under the blessing of equal laws, equal to all colors and all condi- tions, open a career for every man. however humble, to rise to whatever place or power the strong arm, the strength of a char head, and the associations of a pure heurt can lift him. That prospect ought to inspire every young nif.n in this vast audience. I heard yesterday and last night the songs of those tvho were lately redeemed trom slavery,and I felt that there,too, was one of the great triumphs of the republic. I believe in the efficiency of the forces thut eonie down from the ages !>ehindus, and I won­ dered if the tropical sun had not distilled its sweetness, and if the sorrow of centuries of Ma verv had not distilled Its sadness into verse, which were teaching sweet voioes to sing the songs of liberty as they sang them, wherever they go. I thank that choir for the lesson they have taught me here, and now, fellow-citizens, thank­ ing you all, good-by. spirit of intolerance extends not merely to the Republicans of" the North, but even to the Greenbackers, because it is l>elieved that the latter organization may indirectly aid in the defeat of the Democratic party. Among other things which De La Matyr told a reporter of the Indianapolis Journal were the fol­ lowing : They would not talk upon the question of finances, but their speeches were made up en­ tirely of appeals to the passions of the South­ ern jieople. They charged that we were en­ gaged in an- effort to disrupt the Democratic- party of the North, and that therefore, they could not lend us any favor. The Democrats of the North, tin y said, had stood by them dur­ ing the war, had been their friends by resisting Republican oppression, that they were the onlv allies through whom they could hope to retain their present ascendency in the Southern States, and that they could not think of lending anv countenance to a party whose influence was un­ favorable to the success of the Democratic party in any of the close Northern States. We are now engaged, they said, in a life-and-death straggle, and cannot afford to do anything which will risk the success which seems now j within our grasp. We want every Democratic vote this year, and then, when our partv gets into power, we will settle this and all other questions which arose out of the bad adminis­ tration of affairs while the Republicans have had control of the country. Their appeals to the people were based wholly upon seciioaal is­ sues, and their speeches were as intensely Southern as anything I have ever heard on Re­ publican platforms in the North has been of an opposite character. I told them that iu all such attempts to array the South against the North they would be certain to be beaten, and that they would deserve to be. He added to this statement the fact that the Southern Democrats told him freely that their purpose was to allow the Opposition, whether Republican or Independent, the broadest latitude in public meetings, and even in voting, but "to xo count the votes as to insure a Democratic major it >/." De La Matyr convinced himself by personal scrutiny of the relative strength of parties iii Alabama that "it is impossible the Democrats can have a majority of 50,- 000 except by false count. " In fact, the Democrats Iteforc election only claimed 10,000 majority over the Republicans at estimates that ignored the Greenback vote altogether. The practice is to ap­ point two shrewd Democratic judges in each polling-place along with one igno­ rant or pliable colored man ; to throw out all opposition ballots that have even an accidental pencil-mark; to take ev­ ery advantage pending the vote, and, when necessary, make any changes in the count that may be required to give the Democrats a majority. Messrs. Weaver and De La Matyr are fair and competent witnesses as to the political condition and methods of tae South. These gentlemen have no sym­ pathy with the Republican party per se. In fact, they are more hostile to it than they are to the Democratic party, be­ cause tliev lyiow that it is mainlv due to Republican effort that (heir scliemes have been defeated and resumption achieved. When, therefore, they bring North an explicit confirmation of the intolerance, fraud and desperation of the Southern Bourbons, their state­ ments must be received with entire con­ fidence. What does it mean ? Why is it that the ex-Confederates now contend that they are engaged in " a life-and- death struggle ? " What is the ultimate purpose that suggests all manner of fraud and violence to achieve a Demo­ cratic victory this year ? It is no longer a devotion to " Home Rule," for the ex- Confederates enjoy that in tlie" fullest sense. The proposed seizure of the General Government must have some deep design that is concealed from the general view if the effort to that end is really "a life-and-death struggle." most conspicuously demonstrated its ut­ ter unfitness to be intrusted with pow­ er, and its incapacity to administer the Government ? WHY CHANGS? AMONG THE BULLDOZERS. ConercMnnaii De La iWatyr'» Ex­ perience in tlie Soulii--Impartial Xcntimony. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Mr. De La Matyr, the Greenback Congressman from the Indianapolis district in Indiana, has been on a prose­ lyting mission in the S:>utli similar to that undertaken by Weavei*, the Green­ back candidate for President He re­ ports very much tae same experience as Weaver. He found that the Southern [From the Indianapolia Journal.] ! The Philadelphia Press relates the | following incident of recent occurrence > in that city : 1 " Three men, strangers to each other, j stood together the other night on the | edge of a political assemblage. Unable i to get into the meeting or hear the i speaker, they fell into conversation. | After a little preliminary talk, one said I to another : ' I don't know what your l politics may be, but I have always been j a Democrat For three or four years I | j have had great difficulty in getting em- ! ; ployment ; the shop where I work has I { been closed much of the time; I have I had a hard struggle to support my fam- j j ily. Now we are busy again; work is i steady ; pay comes every week ; every- | I thiug has brightened up ; I am a'raid of j I a change, and, though I never voted j j anything but the Democratic ticket, I [ am now going to vote for Garfield.' | 4 That's just my case exactly,' said the third, who had stood listening ; ' I have always been a Democrat, but I shall vote for Garfield because I don't want a change.'" We have no doubt this expfesses the feeling of thousands of persons through­ out the country, who have heretofore voted for the Democratic party, and that this class includes not only workingnu n, but manufacturers, business men, and all who are profiting by the universal and extraordinary season of prosperity which the country is now enjoying. The question for all such to answer in con­ nection with politics is, why make a change in tlie national administration as long JUS the country is as well and hon­ estly governed as it is at present ? There never was a time when every branch of business was more prosperous. Manu­ factories of all kiuds are running full time, and are overwhelmed with Workingmen have steady remunerative employment, is no unemployed labor country--that desires employ- Our agricultural, commercial And mining interests were never more : prosperous. Our foreign and domestic ; trade were never as great The Govern- ; ment is honestly, economically and I faithfully administered, and every citi- | sen enjoys its blessings in as high a de- | gree as is possible. Why, then, shouid i any person desire a change, except from ! purely selfish motives, such as a desire i for office, or personal advantages of some I sort ? The political and financial policy ; of the Republican party are settled anil j understood, and under them the country i is prospering as it never prospered be- j fore. The policy of the Democratic party is a mystery. It is imi>ossihle to ' predict what it would be except that it I would be in all respects different from I that under wliich the country is now ! prospering so grandly. If the country were misgoverned, or if the Republican I f>arty had in any way demonstrated its I unfitness or incapacity to administer j the Government we should say, let us | have a change. No party ought to ask to be retained in power after it has been shown to be corrupt, unfit or incapable. But, so far from this being the case with the Republican party, it has given most ; signal proof of its capacity to administer j the Government,and to-day every branch of the civil service is in a higher state of efficiency than ever before, and all classes are enjoying the benefits of good I government. Under these circumstan- I oes, why incur the risk of the disadvant- I ages and dangers involved in a change, especially as the Democratic party has SOME FIGURES, Showing How the Southern Deinoc> racy Maintain a Free Ballot and a Fair Count. [From the New York Tribune.] * One of the best sentences in Gen. Hancock's letter of acceptance, which left upon the mind the same impres­ sion of neatness and vacancy as a school­ boy's copy-book, was that in which the candidate of the Democracy demanded "a full vote, free ballot and fair count." It was an excellent sentiment, to wliich every Republican would heartily sub­ scribe. But Gen. Hancock's letter pro­ fessed to be a statement of Democratic principles. With the platform to wliich it was a response it is an appeal to the country to trust the 80,000 offices of the Government in the hands of the Demo­ cratic party. The question for voters, therefore, is, not whether the declara­ tion is a sound one, but whether, being put forth by the Democratic party, it is an honest one, or is a fraud and'cheat. The answer is easy. It is in the South that the Democratic party does its perfect work. There are no steadily-Democratic States north of Delaware. In the South the party has gained complete control. In the South, therefore, it lias had a noble opportunity to put into practice Gen. Hancock's motto of "a full vote, free ballot and fair count" Has it done so? What are the facts ? Let us look for a moment at this dark page in American history. Even Democrats will admit that by the year 1872 the Democratic, party was well organized in every Southern State. In Alabama, for example, in that year the Democratic vote was only 10,000 less than it was in the election "of 1878, two years ago. Yet this is the way in which the Republican party has pros­ pered under the rule of the party of "a fret1 ballot and fair count," the figures being the votes cast in tlie years named: /Mm, Iti'p. 187® 79,444 90,272 18"*.... 107,118 93.028 102,002 f»s,2;«) >878 89,571 00,000 What became of the Republican party in Alabama in 1878 ? It is said that they ran no ticket because defeat was inevit­ able. Are parties in the habit of doing this? Do Democrats give up voting iu Vermont, or Republicans in Missouri? It was beciluse the Republicans of Ala­ bama had been taught by midnight murders and whippings, by sociid ostra­ cism, and by the tyranny of employers, that the less they had to do with politics the better. Tins is the kind of " free ballot and fair count " the Alabama Re­ publicans have enjoyed. It remains to be soon ho^much better they have fared in the election just held under the new system which prefers cheating to bull­ dozing as being easier. Takethecaseof Mississippi, where bull­ dozing was invented, and was made known to the world as "the Mississippi plan." These are the votes of the State from 1873 to the last election of a State ticket: Drm. Rf/i. 1873 52,857 7H,:I24 1870 ..; 112,17;! 55,<vX> 18" 97,727 1,1 OS This is what the Republican party of Mississippi lias come to through fear of Ku-Klux assassins, through the opera­ tion of the tissue-ballot, through the frauds of Democratic canvassers. And Gen. Hancock has the aPBumnee to prate to us about "a full voto, free ballot and fair count!" Take the case of South Carolina, where the parties were so evenly divided four years ago that it took four mouths to decide the electoral vote of the State. This is what the rifle-clubs and tissue- ballots, the assassins and swindlers of the party, led by Wade Hampton and Hamburg Butler, have done for the Re­ publican party in South Carolina in two years : firm, Jtep. 1878 9Q,N96 91.780 lf'78 119,550 213 It should be noticed that, in spite of the notorious and universal use of the tissue ballot in 1878, the Democratic vote shows an increase of only 28,000 votes. The R. publican vote shows a decrease of 91,000 votes. Supposing for the sake of argument that the Demo era tic* votes were honest, it would still be true that 63,000 votes were withheld from the ballot-boxes. Why this change in two years? Was it a sudden indiffer­ ence on tlie part of the bl icks, whose greatest pride is that they are citizens 1'tid voters, or was it a chilling fear ? Let the murderers and ballot-lnix stuff- el's who an? the brightest ornaments of the South Carolina chivalry make an­ swer, and then lot Gen. Hancock ponder awhile upon the beauties of their style of "a free ballot and fair count." Almost every Southern State makesi They did not commit the atrocities of Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury, and Ander- sonville. They did not oppose emancipation. They were not" Ku-Klux." They did not commit the butchery at Fort Pillow. They did not commit the horrible massacre at New Orleans. • They did not murder Dixon. They did not butcher the Cliisholm family. They did not massacre black men at Hamburg. They did not scourge, and hang, and shoot, and murder men for opinion's sake. They did not organize the Louisiana White League or the South Carolina Rifle Clubs. They did not drench the South with the blood of inoffensive colored men. They did not invent tlie " Mississippi plan." They did not use the tissue ballots. They are not " moonshiners." They do not resist the national au­ thority. They did not set up their States above the nation. They did not try to destroy the na­ tion's credit. They do not try to pauperize the American mechanic. They have not been an impediment to national growth. They have not been a hindrance to the people's prosperity. Can the Democratic party and all responses Mr. Garfield made during hit journey there is not found a single in­ ane expression. He has shown himself a man of information and ideas upon other than political subjects, who is «t no loss to make appropriate and very admirable use of them in a quick emer­ gency. It is not merely in the art of off-hand responses that few public men have shown themselves his equal; but it is in their fullness and eloquence of ideas that his ofi'-hxuid responses rise preemi­ nent over all othera.--Chicago Timbt {Dem.). . • ' MOVEMENTS OF GEN. GARFIELD.1 A grand reception and popular ova­ tion was tendered the coming President at the rooms of the National Republican Committee, in Fifth avenue, New Yorl on the evening of Aug. 6. It was om&.. of the most imposing political demon­ strations ever witnessed in that city. A large and enthus "vstic crowd, number­ ing over 20,000 people, stretched along the avenue for several blocks. Before the distinguished visitor appeared on the balcony of the house there was a procession of the Boys in Bine Hid other organizations. The pro­ cessionists were dressed in colored capes and caps and carried flaming torches and lanterns. Along the line of march they were cheered, and when they reached the scene of the serenade tlie enthusiasm was great. Gen. Gar­ field appeared on the balcony with Gen. Democrats say as much? The people lArtlllu*' and they were received with can trust a party that has not done ! cheering, which lasted many min- i these things, but they cannot trust a i _ cheering had subsided, ' party that m whole or in part did do them.--Detroit Tribune. Tlie Issnes of 1880. The following paragraph from Col. Ingersoll's speech, delivered before the Indiana soldiers, is as good to-day as when first uttered, and as graphically describes the Democratic party : '* I stood a little while ago in the city of Paris, where stood the Bastile, where now stands the Column of July, sur­ mounted by the figure of liberty. In its right hand is a broken chain ; in its left hand is a banner; upon its shining ioreliead a glittering star; and, as I looked upon it, I said : 4 Such is the Republican party of my country.' The other day, being along the road, I came to a place where the road had been changed, but the guide-board was as they put it years before. It pointed diligently in the direction of a desolate field. Now that guide-board had been there for twenty year--. Thousands of people had passed, but nobody had heeded the hand on the guide-post, and it stuck there through storm and shine, and it pointed as hard as ever, as if the road was through the desolate field. I said to myself : ' Such is the Demo­ cratic party of the United States.' The other day I came to a river where there had been a mill. Part of it was there yet. An old sign said, 'Cash for Wheat' The old water-wheel was broken; it had been warped by the sun, cracked and split by many winds and storms. There hadn't been a grain of wheat ground there for twenty years. There was nothing in g<>9d order but the dam ; it was as good a dam as I ever saw ; and I said to my­ self : ' Such is the Democratic party.' I was going along a road the other day, when I came to where there had been a hotel. But the hotel and barn had burned down; nothing remained there but tlie two chimneys, monuments of the disaster. In the road there was an old sign, upon which were the wordB, ' Entertainment for man and beast.' The word man was nearly burned out There hadn't been a hotel there for thirty years. That sign had hung and creaked in the wind; the snow had fall­ en upon it in the winter ; the birds had swung upon it in the summer. Nobody ever stopped at that hotel; but the sign stuck to it, and kept swearing to it--en­ tertainment for man and beast; and I said to myself : ' Such is the Democratic party of the United States.'" Here is the record' Rep. 38,(W9 00,000 i orders, i and There in the ment. the (same showing. of Arkansas : Dem. 1872 38.41S 1876 58,071 187 8 88,728 The same is true in a lesser degree in Louisiana. There was no general elec­ tion between 1876 and last year, and for the former year we take tlie official fig­ ures : Drm. Jtep. 1876 70,636 75,135 187 9 53,944 26,611 Every one of these States--and at least one other, North Carolina--would be Republican upon a full vote, a free ballot, and a fair count. Gen. Han­ cock knows it. Every Democrat knows it But, simply to serve the purposes of the illustration, let us say that these five States are fairly Republican. They give, all told, thirty-nine electoral votes, which will honestly belong to James A. Garfield. The South could then give Gen. Hancock only ninety-nine electoral votes at best, and he could never by any possibility be President of the United States. By all means, let us have "a full vote, free ballot and fair count." What the Republicans Have Not Done. The Republicans have done some noble things--tilings that will be re­ membered as long as there is history. But there are sojne things they did not do: They did not ase any army to force slavery into Kansas. They did not fire upon Fort Sumter. They did not attempt secession. They did not plunder the nation of its arms. They did not inaugurate rebellion. They did not drive American com­ merce from the seas. They did not " huzza" over Union disasters. They did not " huzza" over rebel vic­ tories. They did not mourn over rebel de­ feats. They did not oppose enlistments in the Union army. They were not draft rioters. They were not " Knights of the Gol­ den Circle." Gen. Garfield made an eloquent and im­ pressive address to the assembled multi­ tude, which was received with the wild­ est demonstrations of applause. Geu. Garfield left New York on the morning of the 7th. He was greeted by immense crowds at every station. - His speech-making powers were taxed to the utmost, the enthusiasts of each crowd insisting on his delivering some kind ol an address, however short it might be. The General spent Sunday, the 8th, at Chautauqua, N. Y., and was present at the religious services of the National Young Men's Christian Association. He was presented to the vast audience of 10,000 people, who were urgent in their requests for a speech, but he contented himself with the remark that in his judgment neither the time nor the place was suitable for speech-making, and then retired. Gen. Garfield left Chautauqua lake am the morning of the 9th for Mentor, Ohio, where he arrived in the afternoon. His journey homeward was a constant series of enthusiastic ovations. He wa* met at every station where the train stepped by immense crowds of people, and made brief speeches, avoiding po­ litical matters entirely. United and Harmonious. Since the Presidential campaign of 1868 the Republican party has not been so solid as it is in the present contest. All delusions about the Democratic party have vanished. It has had a full trial in both houses of Congress, and has demonstrated that no good thing can come out of it The old virus of disloyalty and subserviency to tlie South f)oisons the whole body. No Repub-ican wants to try the experiment of trusting tlie national administration in the hands of this party. Liberals, In­ dependents, Republicans of every sort who have criticised the manage­ ment of their party at any time dur­ ing the past eight years, or object­ ed to the conduct of some of its leaders, are now united in believing that it is not safe to hand the countiy over to the Democrats. Old differen­ ces are forgotten, old quarrels recon­ ciled and old jealousies healed, by the conviction that the public credit, the currency, the safety of business, and the perpetuity of the results of the war, are all menaced by the alliance between the solid South and the Northern Democ­ racy. The Republicans go into this fight united, harmonious and determined to win. There are no grumblers, no lag­ gards, no deserters. The ranks are formed, and every man identified with the great party of freedom and nation­ ality answers to the roll-call. The spirit that animates this mighty Republican host is a sure omen of success.-- New York Tribune. . Garfield at Home. A correspondent of the Chicago Jour­ nal recently visited Mentor, Ohio, while there called upon Gen. Garfield al his quiet and unpretentious countiy homp. He writes of his visit as follows: " I went out to Garfield's farm on Satur­ day--saw the General in his own house, and had a talk with him. He is a plain, honest man. I never met a man more so. There is no ' put on' about him-- no airiness--no nonsense whatever. As a man of the world--an old Chicago man--1 would risk my head on Garfield's manhood, honesty and real greatness. The people will make no mistake by electing him President He is as simple of heart and as great of mind as was Abraham Lincoln. "Gen. Garfield lives quietly andplain- (y. There is nothing affected or aris­ tocratic about him, or al>out his manner of life. Everything is plain and in good taste about his home and his farm. Everybody in his employ fairly worships him, and the people in this village and in all the country round about are very warm in their admiration and praise of him. He has not a single enemy in Lake county, and it looks as if eveny voter in the county would vote for him. I wish every reader in your Journal and every citizen of the United States could know Gen. Garfield as he is. They would glory in electing him President^ knowing that he is not only a truly honest man, but a truly great and good man." Didn't Affiliate. A colored man was busily engaged in sawing some wood for a Galveston gentle­ man. The " man and brother " had a large Masonic breast-pin on his shirt bosom. " Do you colored Masons and white Masons affiliate ? " " Don't fillyate wuff a cuaa." 4' What's the matter ?" " Dunno, boss, but Fse tried it Dar is a barkeeper in dis town what toted (lis heah berry same emblem. I was in distress; hadn't had a dram all dat morn­ ing. I cum in and gave de distress nal." A " Did he respond ?" " He didn't respond right He made a motion at de do%h wid one hand and reached under de bar. I made the sign once inoah, and he fotched me between de shoulders wid de bung-starter, jess aa I was gettin' out de doah." A CHILD of 8 years old was saying ̂ Mt geography lesson ; iu some t<f the school books the answer,to the question, 44 How i< nst, cannot employ words to express j is the world divided? "is given in the ideas. Sotne of the ablest of our Presi- j following words : "Into dry land and dents, under like circumstances, have j water/' The little pupil referred U> gave given utterance only to the feeblest I the very sensible answer, " Into dry land verbal inanities. But in all the many | and wet water." A Lively Contrast. In 1860, after twenty years of Demo­ cratic rule, a Government 6-per-cent bond sold for 89 cents. In 1880, after twenty years of Repub­ lican rule, a Government 4-per-cent bond sold for $1.08. In I860, after twenty years of Demo­ cratic rule, a loan of $18,000,000 ex­ hausted the market for six months. At the end of twenty years of Repub­ lican rule a loan of $150,000,000 was taken in a single day. In twenty years of Republican rule we find : An increase of population of 50 per cent. An increase of general agricultural exports of 500 per cent. An increase in exports of bread and breadstuils of 650 per cent. <An increase of exports of manufactured articles of 125 per cent. An increase of internal commerce of 700 per cent. An increase of railroad mileage of 187 per cent. In 1860, after twenty years of Demo­ cratic rule, Congress authorized a loan of $25,000,000 to pay current expenses. In 1880, after twenty years of Repub­ lican rule, the Secretary of the Treasury pays $85,000,000 of debt contracted for a war brought on by a solid Democratic South, which now wants the power again so as to stop the waving of that bloody shirt, the wearing of which is Hancock's chief glory and his whole available stock as a candidate for the Presidency. In 1860, after twenty years of Demo­ cratic rule, the balance of trade against the country was over $20,000,000. On May 31, 1880, after twenty years of Republican rule, the balance of trade was over $162,000,000 in favor of the country. And so the list could be pro­ longed. but I cannot take the time to do it, as I must make the train for home. A Han of Ideas. - The candor of impartial criticism com­ pels it to be said of the fifty or sixty brief impromptu speeches which Mr. Garfield has made during bis journey to New York and return, that in eome re­ spects they are very remarkable. Though there was, throughout, a needlessly careful avoidance of any expression of opinion upon unsettled political quest­ ions, it can not be said of any one of them that it was nn expression of words without ideas. There has perhaps never been made in this country, by any one citizen, an equal nunil>er of impromptu responses to popular greetings that wei-e so full of ideas, clothed in language of so much force, eloquence, and beauty. Ordinarily, the politician who is pro­ hibited from " talking politics" can not talk to a popular crowd at all; at