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|fttcKunt:» ^laiudcalcr J. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. ILFPHENRY, ILLINOIS. DURING the year 1879 the earnings of the railroads in the United States wer6 -over 3529,000,000, or nearly double the entire revenue of the national Govern­ ment. that the present cotton acreage of the South covers less than 2 per cent, of the cotton-growing area of the United States. ILLINOIS SEWS. FOVB prisoners escaped from the jail at Paris last week. THE Elgin Board of Education has shortened up the High School course to three years. ONE night last week, in White coun- a meteor of unusual brilliancy was THE figures furnished by the Internal i noticed in the sky. It appeared to con Revenue Department show that Peoria 'paid last year over $10,000,000 of inter- , nal-revenue taxes. Cincinnati alone leads it in atofount of internal taxes. tionists, have been discovered in Wash­ ington, while clerks were hunting up the records in old law cases that came before the United States Courts. THE SOUTH. nect two stars with a curved line of fire, ; and the line remained visible for nearly two minutes. . "* OFFICER CLARK, of Streator, shot a | negro fatally the other night while the | Ethiopian was in the act of running SEVERAL valuable historical relics, in ! away• The colored man had been quar^ the shape of autograph letters of George | teVSAtili Washington and other famous Revolu-tlie unfortunate fugitive. Two LADS, named respectively Wellin and Ray, the former aged 18 and the lat- ! ter 14 years, living near Danville, began i throwing clods at each other in a corn­ field. Ray "got mad," and hit Wellin with a club on the back of the head, killing him almost instantly. I THE Curyea farm, lying three miles i northeast of Sullivan, containing 625 • acres, \vas sold from the steps of the j Court House in Sullivan by the Trustee ! of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, . . , i to Mr. D. W. Minchel, of Terre Haute, uftl thing for Rarus and Forrest to make for the snug sum of $13,337.50 in cash. BONDER claims that he has twenty horses in his stable that can be taken ojit any day and driven to beat 2:20. 'Since the 2:llf performance of Maud S. atod St. Julieri at Rochester, he and his 'drivers have boasted that it is no unus- a mile in 2:10. As these remarkable ex­ hibitions of speed are always given in The Ceneus of Illinois* We print, says the Chicago Tribune, private, the truth of the statements may ! v - - u a Li 'j > < the census returns from the 102 counties be doubted. ! of Illinois. These figures have been re- : ~ vised and corrected to the latest mo- MRS. SUSAN J. HENRY, widow of the j ment. The returns are all official, ex- late Capt. Patrick Henry, last surviving eept from seven counties. From these grandson of Patrick Henry, of Revolu- we .8™° ^he uncorrected figures a.s first tionary fame, died a few days ago in Washington. Mrs. Henry inherited property which was lost during the war. For a number of years she was a clerk in the Treasury Department, and, at the time of her death, had just received an appointment in the Agricultural Depart­ ment. - estimated and reported, but the figures of these counties, as finally certified by the Supervisors, will not change the total result at the outside more than 300 either way. The total result does not equal the an­ ticipations. Some of the agricultural counties have made but little increase, while others show an actual decrease. The decrease in population and the ex­ tent of the decline was in the following ENGLAND, the executioner of Bennett, who killed Mr. Brown, the editor of the Boone. ' Hancock Toronto Globe, lias led an unhappy I Henderson life since. The whole town turned its j Knox .V.'e.8!'1 back on him; the urchins gathered j V.J1111,7i5 about his house with abuse at night; no j^svhuyier m one would employ him or associate wjth^l There has been a general increase in him ; and, as a last resort, he had yS ap- | the cities and towns throughout the State. The average gain has been the most uniform in the counties in the southern third of the State, and es- ply to the Mayor for a pauper bass to ! get out of town. These same 'people would, most of them, have been glad to | pecially those on the eastern or Indiana aid Bennett had he been turned loose. line. The total population of the State, sub­ ject to such small coiTections as the final scrutiny may make necessary, is 3,083,326. The growth of the State from its admission in the Union in 1818 j may be thus stated by decades : tiates. . hit 18'JO 55, HV2 ISaO 157,445 I 1H40 47fi,ltM 1850.... 851,470 18T.0. 1,711,351 1870. 2,53!»,8!»1 1880 3,083,326 The population of Ohio in 1870 was 2,665,260, being 125,369 in excess of that of Illinois. It has been expected that the increase in this State would WITHIN the space of seven blocks in New York city there are in course of construction sixteen buildings, each of which is to be a palace in magnificence and to cost a fortune. Among these are the residences being built for W. H. Vanderbilt and his married daughters, for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Wm. K. Van­ derbilt, and others of that family, among whom there seems to be a rivalry as to who shall have the ^l^st palatial dwell­ ing. IN the spring of 1873 some intelligent women of a New England village an­ nounced that on a day named there would be the best dinner they coul£ prepAe .for inqp. wjio would com# for a •day's -trte planting. The result was the setting out of thirty trees. The year 1874 was dry, and anxiety was felt about the trees. A few were cared for by those who lived near to tjbem, but j uois and buying new lands and opening up new farms. The progress in agri­ cultural wealth lias never been so great Bow It Hopes to Reach aai petaate Control Over the Nation. [Extract from a speech of Gen. Beatty, at Troy, Ohio.] In the light of the testimony submit­ ted, it would be useless for any, one to attempt to disguise the iact that there is now a struggle between sections--an­ other phase of that conflict which took place from 1861 to 1865, founded upon the same general ideas, prompted by the same prejudices and passions, and car­ ried forward in the South substantially by the same methods. It is a solid South versus a solid North. The South is stronger to-day, politically, than it was before the war. The white people of that section have lost their slaves, indeed; but they have gained by that loss thirty additional votes in the na­ tional Congress, and the same number in the Electoral College ; and, although they have disfranchised the freedmen, they yet cling to their increased repre­ sentation. With full control of Con­ gress and the Executive, what would they do ? 1. Cut up Texas into five States, and thus gain eight additional Senators, and virtually secure to the South, for all time, full control of the United States Senate. 2. They would reorganize the Supreme Court, and then sweep away the later amendments to the constitution. 3. They would put the Confederate soldiers on the pension-rolls, and provide for payment of the rebel debt, and of Southern claims. 4. They would declare the Emancipa­ tion proclamation, and the Reconstruc­ tion acts of Congress, unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void, and demand payment for lost slaves. But some Democratic friend things that, if a Democratic administration were to do all this, the Democratic party, so called, would be hurled from power at the next election. How, my friends ? If you trust the Democratic party now, you will trust it once too often. The joint resolution by which Texas was annexed provides that Congress may divide the Territory embraced within its present limits into five States ; it would make five States as large territorially as Penn­ sylvania. This division--and Congress and the President have the power and the right to make it at any time--would, as I have before stated, give the South eight more Senators--forty in all, and only making it necessary to obtain the votes of one Democratic State in the North to secure absolute control of the Senate. No obnoxious law could be re- V6 pealed without the consent of this Sen­ ate. No law could be passed without its concurrence. It would be in a position to dictate both as to legislation and ap­ pointments. No new State could be admitted, no treaty made, no Postmaster or revenue officer appointed, without its permission. The negro might be re-enslaved by the States, and there would be no remedy save in revolution. A system of peon­ age might be established, worse than slavery, under which the freedmen would be guarded by shotguns while they worked and hunted by bloodhounds when they ran away, and the North, un­ less absolutely solid, would be utterly powerless to protect. With the Senate in possession of the South, what can the North do ? The President may be a Republican ; the House may have a two-thirds Republi­ can majority ; the popular vote may be overwhelmingly Republican ; but there stands the Southern Sepate to dictate to all, to feviqe every law, to bargain about --V 10,935. Gen. Wikoff was at the head Of the State ticket as candidate for Secre­ tary of State. His majority was 10,989 in the counties composing the Nine­ teenth district, and was fifty-four great­ er than Garfield's. But of the total number of Republican votes cast in the district Garfield received only thirteen less than were cast for Wikoff. Gar­ field's vote was 19,189 ; WikofTs, 19,202. In 1874 Gen. WikofTs vote in this dis­ trict was 15,483, a falling off of nearly 4,000 votes from 1872. Gen. Garfield's vote was 12,591, a decrease of 6,588 from 1872. He ran behind Gen. Wikoff less than 3,000 votes. In other words, he lost 2,800 votes as the result of the bit­ ter and unprecedented war which was waged against him by both Democrats and Republicans. The hasty and ill-ad­ vised action of the Republicans was the principal cause of his loss Of votes. The Trumbull County Convention, without waiting to hear the satisfactory explana­ tion which Gen. Garfield could make of his vote on the Salary bill, passed reso­ lutions condemning him; the Warren Chronicle, the only Republican paper in Trumbull county at the time, teemed with articles against him in both prose and poetry, and some of the latter is now going the rounds of the Democratic newspapers as a campaign document. Many Republicans in other counties of the district, misled bv the clamor, joined in tbjfe attack, and, of course, the Democrats made the most of the capital thus furnished. Thousands upon thou­ sands of oqpies of the New York Sun, and another prominent newspaper, con- i taining the most elaborate and violent attacks on Gen. Garfield, were freely circulated, Khd no means were neglected to reduce his vote. The best and most pdfmlar Democrat in the district, Dr. D. B. Woods, of Warren, was his com­ petitor. Yet with such opposition, and such a ctyyjidate pitted against him, only 2,800 votes were turned away from him, and his majority was 101 votes greater than the whole number which were cast fos Dr. Woods ! In 1876, Gen. J. S. Casement, oi Painesville, a brave Union soldier and popular Republican, was nominated as Gen. Gayfield's competitor, and was supported by the anti-Garfield Republi­ cans and the Democrats and Green- backers. Casement's total vote in the district was 11,349 ; nearly twice as large as that of Dr. Woods in 1874, on account of the union of all the opposition parties in his support. Garfield's vote was 20,- 012, a gain of 7,421 over his vote in 1874, and 823 more^than he received in 1872. His majority in 1876 was 8,660, a gain of 2,314 over his majority in 1874. In 1878 the Democratic Legislature of Ohio had gerrymandered Garfield's dis­ trict by throwing out the Republican county of Portage and adding the then I Democratic County of Mahoning. In j that year Gen. Garfield received 17,166 votes. He had three competitors, sup- trem« element at home was so strong and ag­ gressive that they would lose all influence and leadership if they did not go with the current. Does anybody who reads the newspapers need to be told that during the last session of Con­ gress the whole policy of the more-prudent Democrats was found in their determination to avoid debate and avoid voting on political questions? Such a policy is itself the plainest confession that the party in the Northern States could not stand upon the record it would be rare to make whenever forced to a test. The continuance of the organization of the Democratic party has been the one great ob- stac e to all true progress and reform. Had it dissolved long ago there would have been less du trust of Southern politicians, be­ cause the danger of reaction and mischief, which is the great cause of distrust, would have been removed. It is also plain as need be that, in the same case, the issues relating to the great practical subject of legislation and administration would have made a new revision of party lines, wholly outside of questions growing out of the war. The '• reforms'" would have been taken up in earnest, and some of them at least would have been finally accomplished. I sincerely believe, as I have already said, that the great majority of the pimple from whom progressive move- beating and intimidating United States wit­ nesses and destroying processes from the Uni­ ted States Court." I proceeded with the three deputies on the 7th inst. to Andalusia, arriving there Monday morning at daylight. I found that they had been informed of our approach, and tiad collected a force of from twenty-five to fifty men, armed with double-barreled shot­ guns and pistols, and had gathered in a barn belonging to and kept by Penton. I went into the room and informed Penton that I had a warrant for his arrest, and that he would have to go to Montgomery with me. The crowd immediately collected around me, and Penton declared he would not submit to an arrest, nor go to Montgomery until he was car­ ried bv force. I told him that he would be compelled to go, and that my advice to him WM to gd quietly and obey the law. He re- plred: "I will fight yon to the last extremity before you shall take off any one from here to-day. When we elect Hancock for i'resident this fool­ ishness will i-top. The United States has no business to interfere with this county and its matters." I then said to him : " If you contemplate resistance to the death I am not prepared to fight with such a force as yon have collected, and I will retire until better prepared to en- to the Government in subduing DM Sduth? Z Who now boasts that he was • ptfi oner in "Lincoln's bastfles?" Who now boasts that he oppoaeJ emancipation? Who now boasts that he opposed aB the constitutional amendments? Who now boasts that he mintaiiinif Andrew Johnson's policy ? Yet Democrats could boast of thtM things if they dared.--Lockpori Jom- ntU. . %*- THE CAMPAIGN IH IOWA. ~\r~ ments mav be expected are in the Itepubliean j force obedience to the law." party. T.ie history of a quarter of a century j SAM D. OLIVER, Deputy U. S. Marshal. A local independent paper gives the proves this. Only remove the fears of reaction which they feel, and which the career of the Democratic party shows are so well founded, and these progressive men will make haste to grapple with the nest important questions of the time. The best security for accomplishing this is in the final overthrow of the party which has " learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Its success, by continuing the menace of reaction and the efforts to carrv out theroies a t war with following account or the same matter Deputy United States Marshal Samuel D. Oliver returned early this week from Andalusia. Covington county, AJa., whither lie went with a warrant fc the arrest of four men. charged with mutilating certain witnesses whose testi­ mony in couit they did not relish. Aided by three men, Hovles, House and Adams, he ar­ rested two of tiie parties, whereupon a mob of all true nationality, will make the war issues ! "bout fifty citizens, armed with shotguns, de- Ktill the questions of the dav, and put off still i lied Oliver to carry the prisoners away, deelar- further the time for which I.'with most of you, ingtliat they were amenable to the State and long, when our election contests will be oyer not the Federal courts for the alleged offense, questions absolutely separated from the memory of civil strife. WADE HAMPTON'S SPEECH. Tli* " Principles " the Soulli ly Fight* lug For* I From the Chicago Tribune. 1 , , . . . , . , • - , m. . . . , . ,, „.< „ , I he eou-d not capture Andalusians and earn inere is one point about the ooiltro- • them into the presence of Federal officials. and through threats of violence compelled him to shake the dust of Andalusia from off his feet, and leave that belligerent locality without his prisoners. f ' ' Marshal Oliver was told by this amiable crowd, who had shot-guns to back them, that when Hancock was elected President, Federal interference with citizens would cease, and that of Ohio be substantially eorrect, that State will > remain, as she is now, the fourth of the Union in population. The State of Illinois was never so prosperous as she is at this time. The farmers who sold out at a sacrifice after the panic in 1873, and moved further West to beerin life anew, are, after five years' experience, coming back to Illi- twenty-three remained to be looked after. Twelve women induced a man to send his horse with a water barrel, and, with their* own hands, they gave each tree a barrel, and saved it. This is a proceed­ ing which deserves wide imitation. in Illinois as it has been during the last ithree years. REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER some time since received a letter from a young man, who recommeuded himself very highly as being honest, and closed with .the request, " Get me an easy situation, that honesty may be rewarded." To which Mr. Beecher replied : " Don't be an editor, if you would be ' easy. Do not try the law. Avoid school-keep­ ing. Keep out of the pulpit. L >t alone all ships, stores, shops, and mer­ chandise. Abhor politics. Keep away from lawyers. Don't practice medicine. Be not a farmer nor a mechanic, neither a soldier nor.a sailor. Don't study. Don't think. Don't work. None of them are easy. Oh, my honest friend, you are in a very hard world ! I know of but one ' easy' place in it. That is the grave.' COINTIES. Adam* Alexander Bond B lone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cuss Champaign • • • C.iri-'tian ('lark t'lay C irtois Oolifs Cook I'lawlonl Ounibi rlaiul.. De Knlb IV Witt D>mnlan Dii I'a^e ftdiiar Edwards Ertinntiam... Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greeiie Grundy Hmui.Jon.... Hancock Hardin ; Henderfon... , Henry i Iroquois ! Jackson Jaci«*r .Jefferson Jersey Jo Davies.... i Johns-,'U Kane j KaLKakee. .. Kendall Kw.x Lake ' La Salle ' Lawrence , Leo Livings ton . . . place Illinois above Ohio in the rank of population, but, if the estimates wliicli ^ j ^ have been published of , the population ..gy^y app^Jjtment, to pass upon every ™v. . ^ appropriation, to demand what it wants for the South, and obtain it, or obstruct all legislation. This, fellow-citizens, is the Lost Cause revived ; it is better to the South than the Lost Cause could have been, because it affords greater advantages. It com­ prehends all that that did, and reaches far beyond. It puts the purse of the North within easy reach of the indolent and impoverished South. It indemni­ fies the South for the past, and gives it securitv for the future. It places the South in position to say to us : " Yield to our demantls or rebel ; take this, or nothing ; submit to our dictation, or the machinery of the Government shall stop. You have much to lose by war-- we have little ; break the peace if you dare." This would be the end of free govern­ ment on this continent, and the begin­ ning of life-tenuves ot office for Southern Senators and Democratic appointees. This is what Wade Hampton niennt when par ties. The total vote cast for these three candidates was 10,799. Garfield's ma­ jority over his leading competitor was 9,613, and his majority over all was 6,367. Miltoh Batnes was in that year at the head of the Republican State ticket as candidate for Secretary of State. His vote in was 17,246, only 86 votes more than were cast for Gen. Qfhf&eXd. These figures, taken from the official returns, show that when a sufficient time had elapsed for passions to cool, and for the truth to become known, only eighty-Bt^JEteKublicuwin the Nine- versy over the Wade Hampton speech at Staunton, Va., which very pointedly indicates the true version of the affair. The report which Senator Hampton " personally indorsed " for publication in the New York Herald is identical in language and sequence with the report which was originally published in the Staunton Valley Virginian, with the exception of the very passages which have excited so much comment in the North. The omitted passages are as follows: We have always looked to her [Virginia] to lead, and we know tliat she' has a light to do so. We know her history, and we know that in seeking the path of duty she has ever found the way to glory. I adjure you by your traditions, bv all that you hold sacred, to lead again, Vir­ ginia, as you have done heretofore, uot always to victory, but always to honor. I stood four years by the side of Virginians, and I know the stuff of which they are made. In those four years 1 never saw them falter. At this crisis I cannot. I will not, think that yon that you can en­ nobling inspirations of your glorious past. Put by everything that can distract your atten­ tion from our one great object. I/wk only to that: tight for it, md win the fight. I have nbthing to say to you' about your local differ­ ence's ; we have them in our own State, but we have resolutelv put them behind us. Consider what Leo and Jackson would do were thev alive. Thist' art' the same principles „ nil. ,» ! for which ttwu fought for four years, liemem- Garfield s distric t , lRT j|1(1 nu,„ ^vi,0 poured forth their life-blood presei They threatened to take his warrant and tear it | into slireds, but they did not get it. | There is not much backdown to Deputy Mar- ; slial Oliver, who started again, last Tuesday i night, for Andalusia, and en route will get a | posse of twenty-flve or thirtv assistants at ! Montgomery, and bring back the four men if j they can be fouud. We expect to report shortly I the end of the war in Andalusia. i Attorney General Devens has tele- i graphed tiie Marshal to enforce the writs j in dispute at all hazards. The Marshal { will receive whatever assistance may be | needed to enforce the authority of the ! Government. FRAUDS IN ALABAMA. vutes iiiieo u -"t' - will prove false to vour traditions-that vou ported respectively by the Democratic, j provo recrciu,t to the exalted teachings, the Greenback and the Prohibitionist par- j uobling inspirations of vour glorious n on Virginia's soil «nd do uot abandon them now. Renienilier that upon your vote depends the success of the Democratic ticket. The significance of the coincidence which we have noted cannot fail to im­ press itself upon the intelligent reader. If Senator Hampton had a copy of Ihe speech wfo<3tt he ̂ delivered it is vtoy teentli distriel^^slBAfcWHlttj r/pjliiftj: ] strange that the report should tally i:t.7f>4 '2S,'JTo: 7,'.HIT HV27.il :W7 1!I..H17 3,5;C2 •2f,,H72| 8:i7 f i . l t l , M i l l , - 5 2,100 1,5*1 3,;JIH Z,3x!> 4,070 1.040 3,4*5 1,400 G,0t>4 3,lf>:) 3,01*2 •2,IMM; 2,753 1,707 •2,8 70 THE dead walls of Munich broke out in all the colors of the rainbow with the announcements that the greatest won­ der of the worhl would be submitted to public inspection, in the shape of a gorilla trained to perform on the violin. The Coliseum was crowded on the open­ ing night of the performance. There was the gorilla, horrible of aspect, but L- gan unquestionably skilled in the produc- va™",/;;,'.;'. Madison Marie in Marshall to approach him unobserved, and made j Masna'c.....!. an incision in his hide with a penknife. 1 ncDonougU.. The animal did not mind it. Encour aged in his suspicions, the doubter seized Pongo from behind and shook him roughly, wliereoq the seams of his skin gave way and a man stood revealed < >«'• to an astonished audience. lie assured Jlie\ li'^inian^jtheothei da\, at [ pi^hUpHTnwm Staunton, that the Democratic part}'was j straggling for the same principles for J, which Lee and Stonewall Jackson (ought. It is for this great end that the South has been solidified. Stimulated by the hope of grasping this prize, and achieving this great victory over the North, the Confederate army is march­ ing to the polls in solid column, followed by every man who lost a cotton-bale, by every iffaster who lost a slave, by every planter who lost a mule, by every gambler, pimp, and thief who prides himself on being better than a negro, by every ruffian whose business it was to make merchandise of men; by every brutal overseer who cut and slashed the laboring poor ; by every canting hypo­ crite who tauglit that slavery was sanc- by every cowardly as- -Garfleld. Most of these have siuce convinced oi the error of their ways, and are now heartily supporting the Re­ publican candidate for the Presidency. There is hot a prominent Republican in the district who aw be named as an ex­ ception. Even "Tam Gleen " (George T. Townsend), the talented Scotch poet, who did the most popular and famous anti-Garfield writing for the Chronicle, is now an active worker for the states­ man of Mentor. Gen. Casement, who was his competitor in 1876, is now one of his most ardent supporters, and head­ ed the Lake county delegation which hastened to Mentor to congratulate Mis. Ga? field on the day that Gen. Garfield was nominated for the Presidency. In the present campaign Gen. Garfield is receiving the unanimous support of the Republicans of his old district. No- l)ody pays any attention to the exploded stories which were used with some effect in 1874, and many intelligent Demo­ crats, especially among business men, will vote for liiffl in November. His ma­ jority in the Nineteenth district this year will far exceed any that he has ever be­ fore received in this stronghold of lte- WORDS OF WARMNO. Why the Destruction of the Demo­ crat ir Parly In K«n»eutiiil to the Sa» tional Security. Hon. Jacob D. Cox recently delivered an eloquent and logical speech before a mass-meeting of Republicans in Ham­ ilton, Ohio. Gov. Cox summed up the work of the Republican party thus : 1. The suppression of the great rebellion. 2. The establishment of the constitutional doc- I trine that the nation is indestructible, and that no State has the rigtot to secede when dissatis­ fied with the national laws. 3. The abolition of slavery. 4. The giving the right to vote to the freedmen and their protection in their civil hts. 5. The recognition <>f the sacredness of tioned by God ; oy every cowiuu.y -- I t^tiona! obhgat.on in regard to the national who lias ruined Ins muidoroiis , a A anA hti»i rnfntuLl to recoir- tion of sweet sounds from an ordinary violin. A skeptical spectator contrived *1,154 107 9,4KH 3S7 335 7,414 2.20J 4.171 4,SS0 5,005 3,048 *l.Sl!t 44 MeHoiiry .. McLean Mellaril Mercer Monroe Montgomery. Morgan Moultrie 11.3-20! 1,7.10 2S,090 1,581 24,K04f 1,132 ">na IVrry Piatt I'ike EDWARD ATKINSON, of Boston, says that we do not begin as yet to appreciate j Putnam the magnitude of the wealth to be reaped | Slj from cotton culture in this country. He I says the present crop of cotton will be j sangamon 25 per cent, larger than the largest crop < scott ever raised by slaves--that is, it will ex- ; «eed 6,000,000 bales. H it be of that i cwr^.......| amount it will produce 3,000,000 tons , Tazewell I ' , , . 1 Cnion of cotton seed, besides seed tor planting, ; venniiiion which will yield 90,000,000 gallons of . oil, 1,300,000 tons of oilcake, and 1,500,- ! 000 of hulls suitable for making paper j white. Each ton of oil-seeel meal will keep five I Wiil sheep six months. Thus the cotton-seed ! «rop will support millions of sheep and j Woodfora leturn to the land the fertilizer needed TotaU o grow more cotton. He furdier says 'Decrease. 1,711,951 2.539,801 60,13'): 13, u; .5; 19.39t>| 13,51.51 •2X,lfi , 31,337 j 13,703, 29,74*21 57,443 15.995 15,59:j: 32,Oy7| 13,140 10,<)01l| 5,555! *25,57o! 15,'.HK)j 3V>0 15.704 5-2,941 16,704 lo,749 30.2SN) 11.2-20 61,210 31,987 28,896 18.111 41.588 9,91'J 22,898 21.300 21,377 23.028 30,869 51,980 20,784 30,414 21,495 6,142 1,300 6-27 01:. 2,84' 2,87 3,318 2,250 9,903 4J*>40 1,329 I,703 1,248 *725' 4,711 3,097 8,»37 3,050 6,589 *715 219 4,814 469 10,142 1,379 1,993 1,593 II,200 1,078 *'276 3,701 1,619 6,182 3 3**6 8,967 3,355 1,113 2,539 sassin hand to strike down free speech ; by cverv sneaking scoundrel who has 'lirated the popular will by tissue-bal- lots. Men of the North, will you meet them ? Will you defeat them? I believe you will ; I know you will. Whatever your party ties may have been, you should forget them now. You have no interest that the suec; ss of the Republican party will not further. Stand for the civiliza­ tion of the North ; tor its free schools five speech, free ballot, and free men . Stand by the party whose record is full of generous deeds and magnificent achievements, whose aim has ever been to elevate the poor and secure equality of rights to all!" GARFIELD AT HOME. Sew York "Sun" Falsehoods Re­ futed. [From the Warren (Ohio) Tribune.] The New York .Sun and the journals debt 6. A total and final refusal to recog­ nize Southern war claims of whatever form. 7. The resumption of specie payments. Proceeding to a review of the Democ­ racy, the speaker said : Everybody knows that when the Republican partv was formed there was a reconstruction of i the Democratic partv also. The "SilverGray" I WhigH joined the Democracy, and the '-Free j Soil ' Democrats formed an mn>ortnnt part of i the new bepublicau organization. To pretend I that there has since that time been any dis- I tinguishiii'^ principles in the Democratic part}", 1 except the*'Southern doctrine of States' rights, I which meant preservation ; n<l extension of slaverv, even at the cost of attempted disiuron ! and rebellion, is to do little honor to the lntelli- j gencc of the people. It once boasted of being i a hard-nionev party, but every child knows that i its national conventions have found their most arduous task in selecting candidates who might not be too offensive to the specie resumption- ists in the partv. while they should catch the •'Greenback " inflationists, who appear to make their strongest element in the West. There is but one intelligible clew to the his- torv of that partv since the war, and that is to regard it as the party of the 'Most cause," winch follow ii. evil ex»m,.Ie Rrox.lv j misrepresent the facts in regard to the , Btunulate reaction by every method which cou y~t _u .i i _i. ..t be invented. Whoever will take the pains 3.083.3261 ">43,435 vote for Gen. Garfield at different elec­ tions in the Nineteenth district. In 1874, there was a great falling off in the Repu1 lican vote of Ohio, which was largely the result of a gross neglect of duty by the Republicans of the Western Reserve, Gen. Garfield suffered with the other candidates on the Republican ticket, but the r. duction of his majority was far from being wholly caused by personal ill-will toward him. It was the result of the general apathy and dissat­ isfaction which prevailed that year in the Republican party. In 1872, Gen. Garfield's majority was seeking bv everv means it could devise to nulli­ fy as iar as possible the results of the great nothing which there id to could be invented. Whoever wili take tiie pains to examine the party votes in Congress, to sched­ ule the bills introduced and the meanires pro­ posed, and note the party action thereon, will and tuat wliat i nave said i;) not merely proba- i Jv true--it is demonstration. Nor is this in­ consistent with the fact that there have been many men in the party who have not been pleased with its general policy and conduct. A minority within such an organization will t;e dragged along, protesting in vain, prevented by habit or by ambition from breaking awav, while the most aggressive element, which is us­ ually the most extreme, will practically control everything. I n-ive myself been told by mem­ bers of Congress from Southern States that they deprecated the introduction of reactionary measures or resolutions, but that once intro­ duced they were forced to vote for them, against their own judgment, because the ei- with the original in text except as to the above extracts. This theory would imply that the editor had made a short­ hand report of the speech and then in­ corporated bodily the passages which are now disavowed. It must be admit­ ted that such action is, at least, highly improbable, and would be a dangerous performance at the South. Moreover, in such case, Senator Hampton would be able to produce the original draft of the speech without the objectiona­ ble passages, and to show that it was written before the speech was delivered. But the fact is that the portions of the speecli which are allowed to stand in the " personally-indorsed" version lead up to the sentiments and express­ ions that are omitted in the Herald version. The most natural conclusion is that Senator Hampton, or some­ body for him, took the report which apiwared in the Staunton paper, crossed out the passages which were found to have caused offense and alarm at the North, and substituted other sentences to fill their places. Such a revision of a speech will scarcely be accepted as uthoritative. The "principles" for which Lee and Tackson fought, and devotion to which wm invoked by Hampton as the strong­ est appeal he could make to the Virgin­ ians of to-day, were human slavery, se­ cession, and disunion. There can be no question about this. If the principles involved in the present Southern effort to obtain control of the Government are •' the same for which they fought for four years," then human slavery, .se­ cession, and disunion are still the aims of Southern political effort. They are "principles which are accursed of God and man. They were rejected at the polls and upon the battlefield by the American people. Their defeat cost this country several thousand millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of precious lives. Shall they be allowed to triumph at this late day? This is the issue of the Presidential campaign as j Hampton has put it, and Hampton ! may be fairly regarded as the ! most conspicuous and influential ! of all the Southern leaders next to Jeff I Davis. Human slavery, secession and I disunion are still among the human pos- i sibilities of this country if the results of the war are' passively surrendered. A system of peonage may be established over the negroes of the South which shall deprive them of all the rights of citizens and reduce them to the condition of serfs ; indeed, such a condition actually prevails now in some portions of the South. Nullification of the constitutional amendments and the United States laws is already practiced at the South, and that is but one step from actual secession --it finds its warrant in the same doc­ trine that is cited to justify secession. Disunion will be an inevitable result of the continued and unrestrained exercise of the other two "principles,"unlessthe sentiment of nationalism shall again rally to put down these heresies. The warning of Wade Hampton's speech must not be neglected. Why lite State Was So Strongly Dem­ ocratic--Statement* of Ex-6overnor j Smith. j [From the N«w York Tribune.] ! Letters received at the Republican I i headquarters confirm the statements al- | I ready made that there was most out­ rageous fraud practiced at the recent election in Alabama, Ex-Gov. Wm. H. Smith, of that State, recently appointed United States District Attorney for Ala­ bama, has written the following letter to Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the National Committee: The Republicans in this State put forth no candidates for any of (he State offices, agree­ ing to vote for the Greenback candidates for State officers, and Greenback and Independent for county officers. The reason for this was that the leaders of that party pledged them­ selves that if they succeeded henceforth there should bo in Alabama a free ballot and a fair count. By thus voting the Republicans ex­ pected to secure a fair count of their votes for Garfield and Arthur in November next. The , ..Demwertrtw know of this intention ttt the "Re­ publicans to vote the Greenback and Independ­ ent tiekcts, and it, alarmed them very much, knowing, as they did, that these elements con­ stituted a large majority of the voters of the State. 13v the laws of Alabama, " the Probate Judge, Sheriff, and Clerk of the Circuit Court, or any two of them, must, at least thirty days beforq the holding of any election in their county, ap­ point three Insi>ectors of any election for each Meeting of file Republican Stat* © vent ion -- iPerfect Harmony «ood Feeling- Young and. Slalw* Candidates Pat Fortk to Swell tfe Majority. Dxs Monf*a, iTwm, Aag. 9fc. The Republican State Convention, which oi and concluded its labors yesterday, was one < the largest ever assembled in the State, ai represented all ages and elements of the old and voting, and notably many who foe years have been in other parties. There perfect hannonv and good feeling. The ] form and selection of candidates leave no i ing of rancor anywhere. | The convention met at 11 a. m., with Maf. A. R. Anderson, of Fremont, as tempowary I Chairman. On taking the chair, Maj. Ander- ! son made an eloquent speech of some length. j The following were appointed as the Committed on Permanent Organization: Col. R. Root, of Lee ; Hon. John Maliin. of Muscatine ; D. W. Adams, of Allamakee ; Gov. Eastman, of Har­ din ; Smith, of Linn : P. L. Buchanan and A. L. Htager, of Adair; Judge Stockier, of Fre­ mont, and J. S. Fitchpatnck, of Nevada. John J. Flynn, of Dubuque, was chosen temporary Secretary, and W. C. Haywood, of Hancock; Col. Manning, of Wapello, and W. B. Moffatt* of Louisa, assistant Secretaries. Senator Kirk- wood was agreed on by the Committee on Bafr- mnnent Organization for Chairman. The convention reassembled at 2 p. m. The Committee on Credent als reported all ttae counties in the State represented, except Pkb Alto. Hon. 8. J. Kirkwood was made permanent Chairman, fend Frank Hatton. of Bnrlington, Principal Secretary. Senator Kirkwood made a brief speech, chiefly upon State politics. The nomination of candidates then proceed­ ed. Capt. J. A. T. Hull was renominated fte Secretary of State by acclamation. For Auditor the first ballot resulted: W. G. Allen, Louisa..C. Dietz, Jones ltt W. V. Lucas, Cerro Gordi, J. L. Brown, Lncaa. ..W 4421W. M. Alexander, Pace. 9 8ECON1) BALLOT. Lucas 3891 Alexander. 4 Brown 294 Diets .MD Allen 98| During the taking of the second ballot the names of Alexander and Allen were withdraws. The third ballot resulted : Lucas, 449; Brown, 374. The nomination of Lucas was made ' unanimous. The convention proceeded to nominate can- . didates for Treasurer of State. The names of George W. Bemiss. of Buchanan, E. H. Cog­ ger, of Dallas, and Hobrook, of Delaware, were presented. Mr. Conger was nominated on the first ballot, by a vote of 694 for Conger to *1® ' for Bemiss. Capt. J. K. Powers was nominited for Regis­ ter of State Land Office by acclamation. Candidates for nomination for Attorney • General were presented, a* follows: J. B. Young, _, of Linn ; J. H. Bradley, of Marshall; H. & Winslow, of Jasper, and Smith McPherson, of Montgomery. FIRST BALLOT. Young 270lBrad!ey .Stt. Winsktw 185'Mcpherson ttt - TACOND BALLOT. ! ' Young 231.Bradley u inalow. 171 fMcPhereon. •••••.. .»1A MIBP BALLOT. Yonng .....iyo|Br«d!ey i 9U Winslow 1911' McPhv r#ou„ « .»» p... .MB * AVRTH RALLOT. YonnK 203jBradky.. - ............3H Winslow 2J) MoPhoraon........ lit • FIFTH LLLLLOT. I'oung 1571 Bradley Ml fe Winslow ±241 McPherson ST* is§, place of voting, two of whom shall be members of opposing political parties, if practicable." In most of the counties of the State the Judge of Probate, Sheriff, and Clerk are DemiKiats, or at least two of them are ; consequently it was in their power to carry out the law in good faith or to make nse of their power for fradu- lent partisen purposes. They did the latter'in every county where they had the power, bv se­ lecting such men for Inspectors as would do the dirtv work necessary to overcome the known majority of Greenbaekers, Independents, and Republicans. In this < Montgomery) county, where the majority, independent of the Green­ back and Independent vote, is at least 3,500, the Sheriff and Cli rk of the Circuit Court, bt ing Democrats, and the Clerk being a candidate for re-election, and the Sheriff a candidate for Tax Collector, selected the Inspectors, utterly disre­ garding anv suggest ions of the Judge of Pro­ bate, who is a Republican and a candidate for re-election. For each voting-place the Clerk and Sheriff selected the Democratic and Republican In­ spectors, taking care in every material case to select fi colored man as Republican Inspector, and refusing to accept as Republican Inspect­ ors well-known, high-minded, honest white Re­ publicans suggested by the Probate Judge. The Democrats selected for Inspectors were ill almost every case men of notoriously-doubtful character for political honesty, and the colored men, with few exceptions, could neither read nor write. Thus the prenaration was made be­ forehand for the count ot the ballots. It is claimed by the Republicans that the colored men have never voted so solidly since 1868 as at tho recent election ; that more white men voted against the Democrats than ever be­ fore, and far more white men refused to vote than usual. N< >twithstandingf the Democrats claim to have carried the election in this county by about 2,700 majority, and the vote has actually been counted that way. I will illus­ trate by eiving you what I believe to bo the facte in relation to counting the votes in pre­ cinct No. 9, in this county, linown as McGee's Switch : At this voting-place the Sheriff and the Clerk, by mistake (I suppose), selected a colored man, who can read ali(| write, and who had the nerve to contend for a fair count. This so frustrated the plans for counting that box that the Democrats had to resort to other means to collect tho ballots. The tinal count of this vot­ ing-place gives to the Democrats 540 votes, and to the Republicans 13, as printed in the Mont­ gomery Advertiser of the 8th inst. A colored man by the name of H.A, Graper, as e^ch colored man passed him, was informed how lie intend­ ed to vote, until he had taken down a list of 132 names. After that he tallied each voter until his list reached 460. The frauds in every voting-place in this coun- I ty are just as palpable as this one, and can be easily proved. The Democrats claim that large numbers of colored men voted the Democratic i ticket. The Republicans deny it Suppose you pubUsh an open letter reciting the frauds as herein mentioned, stating that the Democrats deny their truth, and m order to settle the question whether the Democrats have commit­ ted these frauds, or whether the Republicans have lied, you propose to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee to send an equal number of trustworthy Republicans and Democrats to investigate the matter. The Republicans can and will get in this During the taking of the sixth ballot, Mr. Young withdrew, and most of his votes changed > to McPherson, who, after getting 520 votes,was ^ . made the nominee unanimously. . For Eleetors-at-Large, Hon James Harlan, of Henry, and Col. A. R. Anderson, of Fremont,, were nominated by acclamation. District Electors were nominated, as follows t:'S% First, C. T. Jones, of Washington ; Second, > J. A. Pickler, of Muscatine ; Third, F. B. D»n-#a:; iels, of Dubuque; Fourth, S. G. Blvthe, of Floyd ; Fifth, Cyrus Muliiallen, of Benton ;>-««*.' • Sixth, R. L. Tiltoii, of Wapello ; Seventh, Lewis Miles, of Wayne ; Eighth. S. C. Scott, cf Potta­ wattamie ; Ninth, Albert Head, of Greene. i THE PLATFORM. - , . The Committee on Platform, through Mir. * . Edward Russell, Chairman, reported as lows: 1. This convention congratulates the Republican* of. Iowa, whom it directly represents, and the peopfc $$ti. ot the State and nation, whose interests it seeks to subserve, upon the eminent Huccess which lias at-'"-'* • tended tke control of the National Government exer­ cised by the several Repub ican administrations in­ trusted* therewith. We congratulate the country upon the pea^e with other nations, the prosperity of our people, the honesty and frugality of the colleo- tiouH and disbursements of national revenues, the xteadlly accumulating reduction of the national debt, the conHtant lessening of the annual interest charge, and the ever-recurring lightening of taxee Republican administration has secured. *2. The Republican administrati on of State affairs is an open Ixxik, to which tho critical scrutiny of all men in invited. Wu congratulate the people on tho exceptional economy existing in every department, on the reductiou of public expenditures, on the wise and prudent management of our various State in­ stitutions, as nhown not only by official reports, but frequent examinations by the Chief Executive ; that- provision lias been made for the promj't payment of the war and defense bonds of 1881, when our Stats will owe no man a dollar; and finally, upon the en­ couragement offered to every interest ana hope, oar revived business, our wideniug commerce, our gen­ erous harvests, and the growing prospect of a K«- jmblican victory in NovemKn-. 8. We retiffirm the principles of governmental pol­ icy heretofore declared by the Republican party. 4. We reaffirm the platform adopted at C'uicaga, aud heartily ratify the nomination of Garfield ano Arthur, and we pledge to both tke hearty support of the Republicans of Iowa. 6. As the ballot is the base of citizenship and the . hope of freedom, we agree that it is the sacred duty of tho Republican party to not only defend and maintain the National Election laws, Out to provide through appropriate Congressional legislation what­ ever additional safeguards and protection expenenca may have proven to be necessary to the end that toe ballot in every State may be as sacred and safe as life and liberty. . 6. The general interests of the country require , that Congress shall regviate inter-State conunerce as* as to prevent unjust discrimination la the trans­ portation of freight and passengers. That we are in favor of Federal legis­ lation to quarantine and stamp out p'euro-pneumo- nia among cattle in the Eastern States, and aro in fa­ vor 0f state action to prevent its spread to the ̂ e«fc.J The resolutions were uninimouslvadopted. -- The candidates selected arc young and stal­ wart, and, with a single exception, have g«K«S war records. Capt J. A. T. Hull has served ono term as Secretary of State. Capt. J. K. Powers served one term as Register of the Stale I,ana I Office. Capt. W. V. Lucas, nomine*- tor Stato > Auditor, enlisted as a private in the Fourteenth Iowa, rose to the rank of Captain, sirvea through the war, came home t«> Bremer, served six vears as Countv Treasurer, was District Elcctor in 1876, then'became publisher of tho Waverly liepiiblican, which he sold, and started I the I{ei»il>licaiL at Mason City, Cerro Gordo i oountT ; aged 45. . _ E. H. Conger, the nominee for State- Treasj . nrer, enlisted as a private in the One Hundred ^ j, and Second Illinois infantry, rose to the rank o%. Major, served through the war, came to in 1869, served two terms as Treasurer of !*«• , . las countv; age 87. . , ... o- Smith McPherson, the nominee for Attorney General, is a resident of Montgomery county, % g. graduate of the Law Department of the low* H State University, has served three terms a# District Attorney in the Third Judicial Districting. is a splendid lawyer and industrious student j *S.0-.3-- • tit tob* o These nominations are pre-eminently!St made, and of which Republicans may be N0 MORE INTERFERENCE. When Hancock 1M Elected the Rebel Democracy Will Have It All Their Own Way. Atty. Gen. Devens has received the following from Montgomery, Ala., show­ ing what views Gen. Hancock's new fol­ lowers in that region take of the consti­ tution in the matter of State rights: MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 17, 1880. To M. C. Osborn, United States Marshal for the Southern and Midd'e district of Alabama: SIB : In accordance with your instructions, I took the warrant for Penton and others of An- dalusM; in Covington county, charged with countv the affidavits of at least 6,000 men who with the old War Governor to preside ana a*- " * . ~ i t the ^uv^tion. and the young blood of t^| partv to do the work, the campaign opens ug, this "State with a good omen. The State Central Committee hwd a meetjf after the convention, and re-elected Job Runneils as Chairman. will testify that thev voted against the Demo­ crats at the late election. If the Democrats accept vour proposition we will prove the frauds by exhibiting 6,000 men who voted as we say tiiev did. If the Democrats decline your propo­ sition, it will be a tacit admission of the fraud. Some Bygones. Who now boasts that he voted for Breckinridge in 1860 ? . Who now boasts that he voted for Val- landigham in 18t53 ? . Who now boasts that he voted against Abraham Lincoln in 186-1? Who now boasts that he never voted a Union ticket during the war ? _ Who now boasta that he never voted a dollar or a man to sustain the Govern­ ment during the war ? Who now boasts that he never was a Union soldier ? Who now boasts that he gww no aid JOHN MALONE fled into Pilot Point, Texas, to escape f| Balleuger, who was pursuingwith ft knifo drawn. Balleuger not cnte% but lay iu wait outside, within hearing of tho sermon, which treated of tfaa enormity of shedding human bhxnL •Malone thought thai the prcecWfc words would soften. Ballenger a hMl̂ and so emerged fearlessly after the lefN ices; but he was mistaken, for the bWi was instantly driven into his heart. , , IF a man would only STRIKE but an *6^* stant sooner than he uoea I* WvM the moequito every- pop.