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||U2tcm| |?kuuMn: I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. cHENRY, ILLINOIS. •THE Canadian courts have decided ihat telegraph companies have no right injure shade trees. SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIOK pounds sterling have been invested in English railroads in fifty years. THUS far 68,189,750 silver dollars have been coined by the United States mints junce the passage of the Remonetization «ct by Congress. THE farmers of Illinois marketed 1,984,294 hogs in 1879, and will sell About 2,193,000 during 1880. In 1878 there was a loss by disease of 500,000 hogs, valued at $1,500,000. the public, it being stated in the com­ plaint that the woman was an impostor. After his museum was consumed by fire> Mrs. Lyon became one of the attractions of Col. Wood's Museum, in Chicago, and she was' the wonder of that city for some time. She went from Chicago to a museum in Boston, and a little while later became connected with Fore- paugli's circus, with which she traveled over the United States and Canada. RIHGINGWOROS. VitoqacBi Speeefc of OpumMt •f California, Delivered M Francisco, Sept. 11. SOME of the features of taxation in England are peculiarly just and desira- Tble. If anybody leaves you $500 you have to pay $10, and if he dies without a will you will then pay $15 to get this $500. The Government fee on a $50,000 legacy is $1,000, and $1,500 if there be no will; and, if the legacy be 81,000,- 000, then the Queen's fee is $77,500, or, without a will, more than $100,000. If you study and become a barrister, the admission costs you $250, or as much as you are likely to earn the first year. The nomination of Gen. Hancock for Presi­ dent by the Democratic party means one of two things--conversion or hypocrisy--a change of heart or an attempt to deceive. If it be the first--if this be the evidence of a sincere aban­ donment of old positions, wliat reason can that party give for its further existence ? Is it necessary to call the Democratic party into pow­ er to administer the Government on Republican principles? The effrontery of a claim like this would be sublime if it were not ridiculous. I have heard an illustration which seems to me apt: It is as if the prodigal son, when he had retnrned to hiR father's house, and eaten the fatted calf, should turn the old gentleman out of doors, demand a deed to the farm, and insist that nothing less would reconcile him and make him forget the past unpleasantness ! I ljave been trying to find an historical paral­ lel and have failed. History is often absurd, but never, I think, so absurd as that I can imagine one: During the war of the American obstruction. It haa stood as a prophet of frit, intent on making its predictions good. It lifts proposed no great measure, it has cham­ pioned no great idea, it has uttered no broad catholic truth. Whatever has boon achieved for human progress, national stability, personal freedom, has been accomplished in its despite. It is even driven to the necessity of making a merit of acquiescing in what "it was power­ less to prevent and is impotent to re­ verse. Twelve years ago it denounced the Thirteenth. Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments of the constitution as revo­ lutionary and void. To-day it concedes thev are a part of the organic law. It has taken the party twelve venrs to discover what all the world knew. which are intended to guard against fraud. We are now prepared to understand the course of that party against the Supervisors and United States Marshals. If that old partv had never before forfeited the confidence of the voters of the republic, it has done so by its refusal of appropriations of the funds raised for the pur­ pose to the payment of Marshals of the United States for their services. It has come to this, that the Marshals on their own account have had to raise money to carry on the courts, or the courts must stop. Many of the Marshals have advanced out of their "private means or borrowed from others the means to carry on the courts and prevent the administrRt.ion of justice from absolute failure, while the treasury was Gen. Hancock, in his letter of accept- j overflowing with funds raised by the peopie for anoe. says these amendments must he mam- t the verv purpose of paying all the officers and tained. I read that part of his letter with de >i j , • • , Revolution there was a lage number of men in THE birth rate of Montreal, according When you graduate in medicine you pay ^ who were oppo8ed ^ tfa<j to the latest statistics, is 47.59 per 1,000 , $50. If you become a mere notary independence of the United States. In some in excess of any other American or Eu- j public to administer oaths it costs you ! 'S ropean city but the death rate is also 10 $150. When you execute a lease to rent then governing partv in Great Britain. Thev or 15 per cent, higher than any other j your house for anything above $150 a i ^ Selves to be subjects of Georgem. city. THE cotton crop this season, like every other crop, is the largest ever known, And is estimated at 6,000,000 bales. Texas has gone to the head of the cot­ ton-producing States, and leads qff with about 20 per cent, of the whole. RUSSELL BEARDSLEY, of North Lan­ sing, Tompkins county, N. Y., has .served longer as Postmaster than any other person in the United States. He was appointed to the office by President John Quincy Adams in 1825, and has held it ever since. , year, you pay about 70 cents. If you want arms "and crest on your carriage you pay $11, and if you get these arms "granted" to you, and in a measure fully recognized, you have to pay $50 license. One carriage is taxed $11 a year. Your dog costs $1.25 a year. For a license to carry a gun you pay $2.50. The tax for every , male servant is $4, ' WHEN a woman with a property of I $200,000 throws away herself and her : estate on a strange man after a courtship i of a week, the natural result is infelicity. • Such a woman ought to be prepared for any disasters which may occur to her or her property. To complain is the inal- ; ienable right of woman when inevitable disasters are piled upon her, but com­ plaining seldom helps her case. The : unhappy Connecticut lady who was so i unfortunate as to marry a New York brute named Hall has paid the sad pen- , A MAN under sentence of death at f°r her lack of judgment. Hall Somerset, Ind., has to thank fortune for Aung hot griddle cakes in her face, put the appearance of the person whom he h*8 hoots in her soup, and dragged her was found guilty of murdering. James down stairs by the feet. Fearing that Millis disappeared mysteriously fourteen ; she miSht <lie without leaving him her years ago, and one Nimley was arrested property, he drew a >ull for her to sign, for bis murder, and convicted upon cir- and> wht u she was so paralyzed in mind cumstantial evidence, and was shortly to , ,md body that she knew not wllat sbe j can party. There may come a time to parties- A short time ago Millis was doing or what was dune to her, he ™ tvv souTstaiirTevealXnaLd1'm THE Chicago Inte.'ior is urging the Presbyterians of the Northwest to bestir themselves and raise the $100,000 for the Theological Seminary which is necessary to secure another $100,000 of­ fered conditionally by Mr. Cyrus H. MoCormick. as much as the great body of the people in the Southern States from '61 to '65 held them­ selves citizens of the Confederacy. They resisted drafts, impeded the execution of the laws, en­ listed with the redcoats, and made the Revolu­ tion a civil war--a war that divided neighbors and families. Suppose the Tories had main­ tained a distinct political organization after the war closed, and had met in convention, resolved that they stood by their principles, were proud of their traditions, and that they were of right entitled to the possession and control of the Government of the United States! Suppose they had nominated for President Gen. Gates, a soldier by profession, distinguished for his services in the patriotic army; and had said, accept this as an olive branch--we admit the United States are independent--give us the con­ trol of the Government to s<x>th our feelings ; do it, or we slinll be mad so long as we live : and ilie longer we shall live the madder we'll get--and you shall be responsible for the ani­ mosities which have grown out of the war! iWould that proposition l>e more absurd or pre­ posterous than that of the Democratic party to-day. If it had not been for the Republican party there would to-day have been no Government of the United States to administer. I am not speaking of men, but of political organizations. If there be any way in which to administer a free government except through political par­ ties it has not yet been discovered. For the past twentv years the IJepublican and Demo­ cratic parties have stoo<l in bold, defiant, ag­ gressive opposition. However members of Uiese parties may agree or disagree upon meas­ ures of temporary policy, the difference between the parties as political organizations, in their scope, tendency, spirit, is essential, radical, fundamental. I repeat, and enlarge the state­ ment, that we have a Government of the United States of America--that we have a great repub­ lic--the first great republic in history where no man calls another master--is due, under Provi­ dence, to the organization which will be known and honored in history forever as the Republi- light, and half expected to find the logical se­ quence--that he would advise everybody to support Garfield, who had assisted in their adop­ tion. But there is a difference between lip- service and heart-service : between creed and faith ; between the letter which killeth and the spirit which maketh alive. There is a difference between accepting a situation as a hard necessi­ ty. and embracing it as a joyful opportunity. The Republican party achieved its principles in tribulation and trial." It clung to them when it w as treading the wine-press ; it bore them amid the fires of battle ; in the darkness of defeat it would not part with them ; washed in the blood of the faithful, it flung them to the broad light in the triumphant glory of victory. Come weal or come woe, come joy or sorrow,'thev are a part of its history forever. If I(must refer to facts which are but too familiar, it is because of the difficulty of dem­ onstrating a proposition which ought to be evi­ dent from its statement. purpose or payuig agents of the Government. some of these Democratic figures now going the round of the country : Total troops furnished Union army by Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Connecticut* Califor­ nia, Nevada and Oregon, 196,636; by Missouri, 199,111; excess by Missouri, 2,475. These figures are used in various forms, each combination showing the excessive loyalty of Missouri, and at last it is shown that the old thirteen slave States furnished more troops for the Union army by 58,955 than did thirteen non-slaveholding Stages, including in firtl /M*0 /I r* \Tal^v>rtafrn a«.,1 V 1 ILLINOIS NEWIn Grand Lodge of the Masons convenes at fiioamngtoa, .vAtT * All this has been done by the Democratic t party to prevent the enforcement of a good I and necessary law which they could not repeal, j I will call your attention to an important fact : which shows the unfaithfulness of the Demo- i cratie party to the constitution and its amend- ; menU, notwithstanding then platform profea- j sions. ! The Fifteenth amendment provided first that ' "The right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied or abridged by tlio j United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of, servitude." And, secondly, "That the Congress should have power to enforce this article by appro- I priate legislation." This article applies as well to State as to na- ] tional elections. Congress in 1870 passed the j act to which I have referred, and which was i constructed by the Supreme Court as I have al« | ready stated. That Congress was Republican, In the coarse of an elaborate speech in the ! an<t intended bv that act to enforce the Fif- Senate, on the 10th of May, 1879, Senator Hill, j tee nth amendment in the States as well as the of Georgia. Raid: "No, my good Northern' United States. But when the question was Democratic bretliren. you saved the country at ' brought before the Supreme Court in the case j last: you saved the Union in the hour of its i of tlio United States vs. Reese, 92 U S. 11. 214, pesil--not the Republican party ; " The an- j 'n it was held that the language of the act dacity of this declaration is unequaled in the 1 was too < comprehensive to be "appropriate oratory of ancient or modern times. If Dan- i.legislationv to enforce the article at State ton's definition of oratory and leadership lie i elections, where it was most liable to be de- correet, L'audace, faudace, et toujour!* inn/lace ! fen ted. In the meantii: be hanged. discovered alive and well in an obscure village in "Western Kentucky. MR. H. L. BORDEN, of Elgin, 111., is e possessor of a most wonderful watch, t gives the hours, minutes and seconds, the day of the week, the day of the month, the name of the month, the lunar month of twenty-nine days, and the phases of the moon at all times. It pro- put a pen m her hand and made her af- ; fix her signature. The brute was, of course, the chief legatee. One of the curious features of this business is that his former wife, from whom he was di­ vorced previous to his marriage with the wealthy lady, was remarried to him after ! the lntter's death. This divorced and remarried wife appears now to be at outs with the man to whom she was thus ; doublv united. She testified that he vides for the thirty and thirty-one day months, twenty eight days in February, : was a bad fellow, and that, having mar­ aud every fourth year twenty-nine days ried his Connecticut victim for her mon- in February for leap year, making all its , ey, he treated her with terrific cruelty. Own dhanges at 12 o'clock night. It is a ! The wicked husband has been punished chronograph for timing horses to the J for his wickedness, for the New York fifth of a second. And, lastly, it strikes 1 Surrogate refuses to admit the will of the hours, quarters and minutes. This extraordinary time-piece was made in Switzerland, and cost $1,500. the deceased lady to probate. Her rela­ tives were loth to see her property go out of the family to enrich such a contempt- ible person. They made a vigorous ef- J. A. BONN, a tight-rope acrobat, who fort to prove that the rascal had exerted was announced to appear at Clyde, Ohio, undue and improper influence over her wa»s so drunk upon his arrival in the to induce her to sign the will. They are town that the people thought it would to be congratulated on their success, be foolhardv for him to attempt his • rope-walking performance. Neverthe­ less, having fortified himself with sev­ eral dri nks, Bonn climbed the tower of the Town Hall, and started to walk the rope. The hundreds who had gathered below shouted to him to go back, but Bonn kept Straight ahead, apparently staggering at every step. Suddenly the drunken performer dropped his balance- pole. The crowd groaned and many persons hid their eyes. Bonn fell back­ ward, but like a flash his right leg wrapped around the rope and held on. He said afterward that the loss of his pole sobered him instantly. THE gross earnings of thirty-six lead­ ing railroads of this country for August were $16,077,655, being an increase of *3 ,897,122 over the earnings for August, 1879. For the eight months, ending Aug. 31, the earnings of thirty-one roads, including the New York Central, the Northwestern, the Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Wabash, the Central Pa­ cific, the St. Louis and Iron Mountain, etc., were $105,933,538, being a gain of $23,231,892 over the earnings of the cor­ responding period of last year. Had the earnings of such roads as the Balti­ more and Ohio, the Pennsylvania Cen­ tral, the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central and the Union Pacific been in­ cluded. the total would be much larger and the rate per cent, of increase would be much higher. The showing is very important and gratifying, as it indicates The Terrors of Carving. The misery of habitual carving can hardly be exaggerated. The man who ^ ^ comes home tired from his day's work ^ daincd to protect-- free speech, and sits down to dinner needs a quiet and easy meal. Instead of having'this, he is compelled to undergo the labor of carving, and to postpone his personal dinner until his appetite has vanished. It is no sninH labor to carve for a family, say of six persoSs. The joints of tho spring chicken are apparently made of a combination of steel and India rubber, and can neither be cut nor dragged ' apart; while the roast beef, toughened by long years of service in its original shape of an ox, requires more strength of wrist on the part of the carver than would suffice to saw a twelve-inch log. When at last the work of carving is done, the delicate and difficult duty of "helping" begins. There can be no peace of mind for the man who helps his family and his occasional guests to any food except soup or oysters, both of * which can be accurately and fairly divided. In the case of children he can never give satisfaction. There is no rule in tliis matter beyond that of giving the chicken legs to the boys, which can be followed. To ask.people what part of the chicken they prefer is simply madness. Either everybody will teil the truth and demand the best cut, in . which case all but one will be exasper­ ated by failing to have then- wishes grat­ ified, or everbody will reply "Ary part," •• It makes no difference," or wnnls to the same mendacious and aggravating efleet. Of course, when the man who says "It makes no difference" is helped to anything but the breast, he becomes the enemy of the carver for life, and nothing can disabuse him of the im­ pression that he has been wantonly in­ stil ted. It is far better to boldly help Lost ; but they will acquit linn of any intention to press open insults on his QUESTS.--.AVM' York 1'imes. remarkable activity in every branch of j)e<,p]e without making any pieten.se of industry. consulting their wishes. They will then regard the carver as a rude and careless THE " i>earded woman," who was, years ago, P. T. Barnum's greatest at­ traction, is dead. The maiden-name of this remarkable woman was Rebecca Wertgaat. She was born at Pembroke, Genesee county, N. Y., in May, 1824. When quite young she married a man named J. R. Lyon, and removed with him to New York. Nothing unusual in the life or person of Mrs. Lyon had been observed till she reached her 44th The Story Disproved. A leading officer in one of the courts was charged with never going to bed sober. Of course he indignantiy denied the soft impeachment, and he gave the particulars of a particular night in proof. We quote his own words: Soon after I got in bed, my wife said: what's the matter with the burning light of day. After that professions j and hypocrisy :»re useless to conceal. Nothing ; but the grave can cover infirmity. I The Democratic party has passed such an or­ deal, and the highest boon it can rightfully ask is the charity of oblivion. The only mercy it ought to expect is forgetfulness. j We are a nation 50,000.000 strong. That we i shall remain a nation, one, undivided, indiyisi- ! ble, there can be no doubt. No Englishman I doubts there will always be an England for the ' English ; no German doubts there will always 1 be a Germany for the Germans : there will al- ] ways be a Franco for the French. That there | will always be an America for Americans--that j this fact has been accomplished, established--is I due to the Republican party. What the Gov- I eminent of the country shall be--how it shall be administered--is a question of only less im- 1 portance than its continued existence. The ! problems of law, administration and policy I wluoli are oojiwtaOilj* «riding* in n OuTCl'lHlieHv like ours are complicated and difficult. No one can understand them nil in detail. What we j are required to uuc!> rst;\nd is the spirit in which they are to be met and solved. | No disinterested man. if there be such, i will seriously contend that the Government ! would be better administered under Democratic | than under Republican control ; that its deal- 1 ings with foreign nations would be more just ; a n d e n l i g h t e n e d ; t h a t i t s c r e d i t w o u l d b e b e t t e r j maintained ; that its debts would be more rap- j idly paid ; that it would be better protected | from the vague, vast, portentous mass of ; S o u t h e r n w a r c l a i m s w h i c h h a n g o v e r j it like a cloud. Surely no tine will claim ; t h a t t h e s p i r i t o f t h e D e m o c r a t i c p a r t y i s j more in harmony with social order, and that [ orderly progress of society which conies of evo- j lutiou, not revolution, than the Republican. No | o n e . h o w e v e r p r e j u d i c e d , w i l l c l a i m t h a t t h o s e j personal rights which all government is or- j " ' .... . ualitv before i the law, tiie security of each in the enjoyment , of his own--are safer under Democratic than i Republican control. No one, whatever his con- : dition may be. will dare a,-inert that the Ameri- | can idea of government, personal libert'-*, and ; national union, center and cir-umft renee, is safer under Democratic than Republican con- tr< >1. l'ause for a moment! Go back in your memo­ ries to the sad. bitter day when the joy ot' vic­ tory was turned to tears, and the sweet dawn of peace was clouded by tk» death of "Lincoln. L)id ever a nation confront graver problems, more complicated difficulties, more serious dan­ gers than ours did then? The questions our father* met in the establishment of a Govern­ ment, after the achievement of independence, were far less difficult. The War of the lU volt- tiou, itself, welded the people into one; Ue War of the Rebellion dissevered them. Tne Government of eleven States had been 4e- stroved, and the people of tnese States wyre arimated with a hatred for the Union, wlieh was intensified by defeat. The actual povirtv of the South was scarcely less to be deplded than the fictitious, inflated, speculative iros- peritv of the North was to be feared in itsulti- mate" effect. A currency fluctuating from day to day demoralized business into speculation or degraded it into gambling. A debt so *st it could scarcely be estimated, and behind it a mass of claims too vague and vast for defini­ tion. A credit prostrated until it was a byword j and a reproach. I Confronting these questions, between order , and anarchy, civil government and ailitary i rule, payment and repudiation, with rumeless and counties.-* complications of seitlenent--in . ; the moment of supremo civil peril, our chosen leader, whose character, exalted to the highest plane of humanity, made him worthy 'te> wear . tiie crown of martyrdom ; whose wiJom and | ; purity, and the great love the j>eople tore him. j were pledg« s of the nation's safety, strick- | ' en down and the hearts of the p«jple were I stirred by wild thoughts of vengeiflce. The sea of trouble was tempest-tossed If passion, i In war all questions are stil ordinatd to suc- : cess--all measures look to one end-ill appeals 1 are to one sentiment. The war over the inten- sitv of excitement relaxed. The timulus of ' heroic achievements and tangibk resistance . withdrawn, difficulties of adnniiistrition l>egiu. These had never been more mnnifid and com­ plicated than with us ; for never lid civil war 1 been waged over so wide a counry. involved I greater loss of life and pro]>ety, enlisted • ' deeper passions, or been fraught with grater I interests. i , Go back again to the bitter dy when the ^ lightning flashed over the civilised world the | saddest tidings the wires have evr borne that j . Lincoln was dead--what a wearjjvaste ot diffi­ culty lay before the republic ! What a dark cloud of danger overhung it ! A* arinv in hand , which, in anv other country, an ambitious , ! leader might use to subvert ciJ authority ; a ' united Government to be estblished over a | | discordant people on the basl of justice to | i each ; freedom to be secured tc#,000,000 eman­ cipated slaves in a hostile eonuunity. This to ' be done with a credit prostrate by unexampled | expenditures, and under a loal of incalculable j | debt. Contrast then with nov; that with this ; ; not sixteen years have gone ; ot half a genera- tlie Senator from Georgia, in one sentence 1 m a d e C i c e r o a b a b b l e r , a n d D e m o s t h e n e s a j clown ; made Caesar a camp-follower, and Na­ poleon a sutler. Let us make every conocssion that is consist* j ent with truth ; let" us state the case at its best ! for the Democratic party of tho North : let us admit that war was inevitable, that it was a conflict of moral forces, old as time, strong as death, for which statesmanship had no solu- ' t i o n , p e a c e n o a r b i t r a m e n t . I f , w h e n w a r c o u l d i no longer be postponed, it was not a thing to be" d r e a d e d b u t t o b e m e t , i f , t h e n , t h e D e m o c r a t i c i party of the North had made one authoritative I declaration for tiie maintenance of the Union. | the war would have been short and decisive, , a n d w o u l d h a v e t i l l e d b u t a f e w p a g e s o f h i s - i tory. At that crisis, when every instinct of ' patriotism called aloud for action, the Demo- 1 cratic pM'ty of the North stood with folded ! arms and dumb lips. Silence then is ay accuser ; now. For the long continuance of the war we have chapters, volumes of desolation: for heca- timbs of heroic lives, history will hold that party responsible. The stain of blood is on its hands so deep not the occan of time can wasl it out. It would "the multitudinous seas in­ carnadine, making the green ones red." The war went on for weary months and years. Its murky clonds were seldom illumined for us save when victory flashed from the sword of Grant. Tho Democratic party had utterly failed to meet the question of union or disunion. There came another time of trial. It had an­ other great opiwrtunitv to redeem its pas'. There came a Uuie when the exigencies of war demanded the emancipation of the slaves. The choice was between emancipation and victory, slavery and defeat. The word was spoken, the bond were made free. As a mere war measure the proclamation of emancipation was more than the sword of Gideon, more than the sword of Michael ; it was the sword of Truth from the armory of the God of justice. But it was.far more than a war measure. It con­ cerned universal humanity and all time to come. It was one of the great events of his­ tory. As we recede from it in the perspective of the ages, it will rise above Pyramids, above the Himalayas, above the stars. Then the clock of time struck 12. Then, if ever, the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy. In this jubilee of hu­ manity there was one note of discord : one voice of lamentation. To the Democratic party the light was darkness. No wonder that in its counsels the war wan a failure. What to it was the Union without slavery? In this great chapter of events, which makes our age heroic, I ask what patriotic act or ut­ terance can rightly be ascribed to the Demo­ cratic party? There wero Democrats who were patriots, Inrt tlU-lr patriotBsfflf fthuill VtlTPO tfnd action outside the party. The more thev were patriots the less they were Democrats. Why go back ? How can the spirit, tendency of a party, its moral force, direction and pur­ pose be judged but by its history? These are not changed In an hour, by resolution, or by setting up a ligure-head for office. I charge that the Democratic party has been false to the Union, false to freedom, false to humanity. Its claim to administer the Government which it was willing to abandon or eager to destroy is monstrous--a satire on patriotism, reason and sense. Nothing in its life would become it like the leaving of it Why go back? The Democratic party itself gives the challenge. It invites not statute of limitations. It comes into this canvass flaunt­ ing its traditions, proud of ita idc ntity. It ap­ peals to its followers as "The old Democrati party!" The distinguished gentleman who presided at its late National Convention con­ gratulated that body because it contained so many men who were in the convention of '56, which nominated James Buchanan, and took hope that the party would again succeed and restore the administration of the Government to Democratic principles. Think of that! The administration of the Govu nment of the United States brought back to the point where James Buchanan left it! DEMOCRACY 0I8SECTED. TfllliiK Speech by Judge Alpliom»o Talt, at Conneaui, Ohio. Why, husband, year and then a very heavy dark !>eard you? You act so strangely." "There is to appear on her hoe. Neither her features nor her nature bore gaid she-°"you don't act natural at all. ^ anv appearance of masculine tendencies, ! Shan't I tret up and get something for ( tion ; our credit is the" highft in the world ; »he W. gre»Uy embarrassed by the yo,,?" And .he got np lighted the^n- i JVSftiS growth npon her face. She employ ̂; one hlmd. "i j various means for removing tne last- j_new -was something about you, j dom. To assert that the prtyhad made no sn-owinc beard, but without avail, and it sjie. «< why, you are sober!"--Buf- mistakes would be to claim tat it is more than fe, ' .. i ,, • * T, ' DO human. Measures are oftP experimental-- -was not long before it reached her waist, falo J^xpress. ...... ... It was soft and silken like the hair of a • GLENN, the great land-owner of •child. A suit was instituted against | California, owns 60,000 acres of grow- Barnum for an alleged imposition npon ing wheat, / sometimes a choice of evils. A party must be judged by the results of M policy. To say that the Democratic party v>uld have improved on this magnificent result, »e grandest in civil history, is to insult comiOn sense and libel common honesty. It has iood M A P*rty of The issue lies between the Republican and the Democratic parti -s. There is no better al­ ternative. and the question is, which of these organizations shall be trusted with the power? The record of the Democratic organization is such that it can never again be trusted with the Government by the American people. Now, if the Democratic party could bury out of our sight, and out of our memory, and out of the memory of mankind, its past history, and come to us a fresh, young, and uncorrupted organiz­ ation which has never betrayed the country^ nor sympathized with rebels, and opposed patriotic measures in time of war, nor attempt" ed to break down the credit of the country fo party ends, and if the Republican party had made a doubtful record, the question of in­ trusting it with the Government might well be entertained by the American people. It is for this reason that the particular thing most deprecated by the Democratic organs is that there should be any reference whatever to the re?ord of that party in the Rebellion, and in regard to • the institution of slavery which caused it. or the reconstruction which followixl it. or to the well-known sympathy with the dis­ loyal elements of the country. lint it is impossible for the party to blot out its liistorv, or to escape the just responsibility to the public judgment, for its unfaithfulness in the greatest crisis of the republic. This is the hoary-headed party which asks the country to forget its history, and intrust it j integrity or fidelity to Republican principles^ with supreme power. Looking to its past ca- *** reer on the financial questions that have ar­ rived, it is impossible to foretell what it would do if once in power. Whether it would stop I resumption, and issue more greenbacks, until I they should become as cheap as they wero in ! 18r,6 to 1809 : whether it would suppress the j banks, and compel them to wind up and collect their loans, amounting to some. £800,000,000 or ••sitOK.OOO.OiX), in which event many debtors, both Democrats and Republicans, would be ruined : or whether it would snstaiu the re­ sumption which it has so long denounced, are all questions which cannot be answered from the r>ast words or the past actions of the Demo­ cratic party. If that party should come into power we should b© at sea on all tinunciai ques­ tions. Neither capitalists, nor business men, nor workingmen could tell what to expect. The only hope would be that the party would again Ite inconsistent and carry out the Republican policy of resumption which it has uniformly opposed. Nor would that hope be brilliant, in view of the actual condition in which Mr. Bu­ chanan, th« last Democratic President, left the credit of the country. There is absolutely no hope for the Demo­ cratic party to obtain a majority of the votes of the American citizens by a fair election. Nothing but fraud can give them success. This deep, unspoken conviction in the Demo­ cratic leaders makes them desperate in their oppontkm, to the election laws of Congress, meantime the Democrats had obtained a majority in the House of Repre­ sentatives, and they have refused " to enact any appropriate legislation" to enforce that important article. As long as either House of Congress shall remain in Democratic hands the colored men of the South will wait in vain for any such legislation. A Democratic Congress will never enact any "legislation" to enforce the right of colored men to vote ftt State elec­ tions, under the Fifoetnth amendment. Its dependence upon the solid South for its politi­ cal power will forever prevent it. The question is thus plainly presented to all ' the lovers of liberty and republican equality, j whether they desire that every citizen of the j United States, of whatever color, shall have and enjoy his right to vote at State as well as at national elections. If you desire that this es- •sentiiil jwlitical right of all the citizens of the ' United States shall be vindicated and made j secure, there is but one way to do it. The Dem- I ocratic majority in Congress must bo dislodged by tho ballot. Vote the Republican ticket. Every vote given to tho Democratic party, as it is now constituted, is a vote against the enforce­ ment of the Fifteenth amendment. The Fifteenth amendment, does not enforce i itself. It requires legislation by Congress, and i von are to say by your ballots whether appro­ priate legislation shall be enacted to enforce it. ! Let us see.to it that that part of our national i constitution which provides for universal suf- ! frage does not Keep the word of promise to the oar, And break it to the hope. " The Democratic House in 1876. before the i last Presidential election, made a desperate I effort to repeal the election laws of Congress by I attaching a repealing clause to the Appronm- tion bill, but failed through the Republican ' Senate. vIf they had succeeded, thev would have carried the election by fraud and intimi- ; dation. This the. knew as well before the elec­ tion as after. Nor will they ever forgive tho Republicans for the loss of that election. Hence the desperate effort to overbear the President by the present Congress, and attaching the re­ peal of the Election law to the appropriation bills. They know that if thev can get rid of : these laws "they will double their chances of sue- I cess ill the next Presidential election, because ! they will more than double their chances of suc- , cessful fraud and intimidation. In this contest we have seen what fabrica­ tions of charges they have' niade and published far and wide, and how utterly groundless those I fabrications are. But their last nrgillhent. used | when all others have been exploded, is the same ; as that which was used by the rebels before and in the war.,viz. wthat the laws are unconstitu­ tional. This is an unfailing re-source, to which , every man or party can resort. It is a privilege 1 «f -«Mi Atireriotiii ritimn, on tho utiliup or m ; Congress, to declare any law on the statute ! book unconstitutional. To justify their factious opposition to the enforcement of the Election : law, by refusing appropriations to carry on the : Government, they .fay it is unconstitutional. They set up what they call the doctrine of ' State rights, and urge that when Congress pro- i vides for the proto -lion of Congressional elec- i tions against . fraud by repeating and fraud by tissue ballots, and by intimi­ dation, it is encroaching upon tho "rights of ! the States, although the States have habitually | suffered such frauds to be perpetrated. State rights are sacred, and no good Republican de- i sires to impair them. But the right to regulate 1 : the election of its own legislators by the Gen- j oral Government is as truly a national power | ; as the power to regulate the mail service or the ! internal revenue. It would belong to Congress | and not to the States, if there was nothing iu ' the constitution about it. It is not properly a j State function. Whatever power the States I have in the regulation of the national elections I must be derived expressly from the constitu- ] ! tion. The constitution provides that •' The ; times, places, and manner of holding elections i for Senators and Representatives shall be pr<- i scribed in each St ate by the Legislature there­ of ; but the Congress may at any time by law I make or alter such regulations, except as to the j i places of choosing Senators.'- i The people of the United States, having | ; made the constitution and established a Gov- I eminent with sovereign powers and responsi- ! j bilities, will never consent to its degradation to ' a mere confederate agencv of States. When- j • ever this proposition shall come before them j ! and be fullv comprehended by them, as it is i : Hiire to be, tfie people will vote it down aM they j j v o t e d d o w n V a l l a n d i g h s m . a n d a n t h e y w o u l d j ; vote down any form of treason or disloyalty to j i our beneficent Union. The time has come | ; when the leaders of the Democratic party : should be taught a lesnou on this subject". . ' Nothing short of a strong popular vote of con- I ; denmation will open their eves. They fear the j i people. Now is the time, therefore, for the j j American people to teach the Democratic party I | a wholesome lesson, not to be forgotten for a j | century to come. Vote the Republican ticket j j and guard the polls against fraud, and trust j I the American people for the result j I Hancock's record as a soldier is good, but if i | elected we must not expect him to resist the j ruling majority of his party. Of Gen. Garfield ' I can sincerely"say: He is a life-long Repuhli- ! can, and can 1*>" relied upon to carry out the i true and noble principles of his party ; that he ! is a man of great and weli-iried ability; that he 1 has diligently studied the merits of every po- i litical or national principle fallen withm the | range of the duties of an American legislator, I and that in literature and oratory he touches j nothing which he does not adorn. We have no • ground to suppose that his views on any ques- i tion involved in his duties of President of this ! republic are. or are likely to be, at variance , with those of the great majority of our party. His views are so well known and have been so ! clearlv and well expressed by him that we are I not iii danger of any of those surprises in tho ! career of a Pre-ideut which have sometimes dis- ! appointed a great jwlitical party. Gen. Gar- i tield's education, experience, and training, civil ! and military, have l»een peculiarly suited to tit ! him for every political ottice in a reform gov­ ernment. I entertaiu 110 doubt of his personal We give the figures of the census of 1860. Here is the statement AN Elgin firm has bought and sold about 15,000 milch cows within the p--t four years. Cot. HARLOW, Secretary of State, after his term of office expires, will gage in a general commission liiiniiif ! in Chicago. . ".TE" , r , o -- r A MEETING of the prisoners of war if these Colorado Nebraska ftnd Nevada, to be held at Decatur, Oct 6 and 7. i& which were not States m 1861, and Min-: connection with the reunion of GeM$ nesota and Kansas, which had just been Grant's old regiment. admitted. It is needless to sav that no m , , n n , , , - * such figures were published by the J The people of Hillsdale and ^cimtj* Tribune or were ever furnished bv the ! mi?ock- ̂ slfld county, are caat down Secretary of War ' W1"J S1"1̂ beeause of the ravages of In 1879 there was issued by the Adiu- 1 diphtheria in toost malignant form. j tant General of the Army a tabulated • MAJ. JACOB H. HOLT fell dead in In = statement of the number of men called i var<l the other day from heart disease. * for by the President, and the number He was an old ard respected citiaen, furnished by each State, Territory, and having served as Mayor of Monmonfl* the District of Columbia Jrom April 15, f°or terms. 1861, to the close of the war of the Re- UNCIJE BEN KsEiiEB, of Auburn, flan bellion. This statemer.t showed the ; ganion county, celebrated hi* goldnt terms for which the men served, includ- ' wedding within fifty yards of where ha ing the enlistments for three, six, and , was originally united with Wi-- Mary nine months and for one, two, and three Ann Wallace. years, with a statement of the aggregate j , , , . reduced to the three years standard. The i^ P11 ®^vefa. years it has been claimed shortest and most certain way to ex- i sickness has occurred on uw plode these Democratic fabrications is to ' j arm'. , west of Lincoln,, reproduce this statement, together with i 60,1 8ev.eral deaths have occurred among a statement of the population of each of j 3UCCe881ve families on the place. these States during the period of the ! ADAM KEHJT, of Bloomington, a fie# war when these troops were furnished, i days ago, was wounded in the hand by- the spur of a rooster. Inflammation setin, and grave fears are entertained ' that he will lose his hand, if not his arm. • \ JOHN T. DEMHANTT, ex-City Treasu­ rer, died at Ottawa a few days ago. Mr. Delihanty was a member of the Board of Education, and out of respeci the city schools remained closed on the day of the funeral. JOHN WALKER, of Jerseyville, who recently fell heir to $1,000,000 by the ; death of an uncle in Kentucky, vomited up a tapeworm eighteen feet long the other day. It is singular how sensitive a man's stomach becomes when he get* to be a millionaire. Gov. CULTIOM lias appointed John C. Hughes, of Springfield, Printer Expert, vice William E. Smith, resigned. Mr. Hughes is a practical printer, having for the past few years been superintend­ ing the publishing of Freeman's Su­ preme Court reports. A HORBIBIIE death befell a young man. named Messman, living sexgral miles from Tolono. He was hauling a load at 1,080 i grain, when the team, becoming fright- 1'773 ened, ran away, throwing young Mesa- man out and dragging him under th» wagon a half mile. He was badly muti­ lated. He died in eight or ten minutes. He was the support of very aged parents and a large family. THE Illinois State Board of Argricult- ure report that the returns received by them warrant the statement that the winter-wheat crop of 1880 in this State will be 53,865,505 bushels. The figures of spring wheat are not given, but they ? will not differ much from those of last year. The wheat crop of Illinois in 1879 was: Winter wheat, 41,312,340 bushels ; spring wheat, 3,584,490 bush­ els ; total, 44,457,428 bushels. If the winter wheat of the State iu 1880 readies 53,865,505 bushels, the total wheat crop in the State will be about 58,000,000 bushels--an increase of about 13,500,000 bushels over the unprecedented crop of last year. The State Board undertake to state that the average price for this winter wheat of 1880 paid to the pro­ ducer is 82 cents per bushel, and there­ fore the whole value of the crop is $44,- 457,428. This latter can be but an; ' timate at best. f GEN. BTTSHROD Joaxsox, the "well- Malue New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts ItUcde Island Connecticut New York NewJpr.se>'. Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Went Virginia District of Columbia. Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan WiHconoin Minnesota Iowa Missouri Keutncky... Kansas Tennessee. Arkansas North Carolina California Nevada Oregon Washington Nebraska Colorado Dakota New Mexico Aialuinia .• Florida. Louisiana Mississippi Texas Indian Nation Totals 638,279 326.073 3l3,0i)8 1,231 174,(1201 M0,147; 3,880,785 ! 67U,(tt.V ' 2,906,U15 | 113,2161 i 687,049 j 986,8181 I 7!i,080: : 3,330.511! 1,850,4-281 11,711,951! i 749,113] ! 775,881! ! 172,023! 671,9131 1,182.018! ! 1,155,(484 107,206! 11,109,801 ! 43.i,45H 992,622 879,994 6,857i 62,465! 11,504; 38,841 34,2771 4,837! 93,516 964,301:' 140,424 708,003 791,305 604,115 72,114 34,629 35,262 152,048 23,69!) 57,379 467.04" 81,010 366,10' 13.670 50,316 32,068 16,872 319,659 197,147 259,147 89,372: 96,424 25,052! 76,309! 109,1111 79,025! 20,151! 81,052; 8,2891 3,i5«; 15,725 1,080 1,810 964 3,157 4,903 20fi[ 6,561 2,576 1,290 5,224 543 1,965 8,530 2,765,691 56,766 30,849 29,068 124,104 17,866 50.623 393,270 57.908 265,517 10,322 41,275 27,714 11,506 240,514 153,576 214.133 80,111 7!',260 19,693 68,630 86,530 70,832 18,706 26,394 7,836 3,156 15,725 964 3,175 3,697 306 4,432 1,611 1,290 4,654 545 1.965 3,530 2,238,483 We have given the complete history of each State's action in the way of fur­ nishing troops for the Union service. It will be seen that the claim by Demo­ crats that the Democratic State of Mis­ souri furnished 109,111 Union soldiers is slightly exaggerated, and in the addi­ tion of 100,000 to the figures of that State will bo found an explanation of the forgery which these Democratic pa­ pers are repeating, and which by some strange freak they impute to the Chi­ cago Tribune. It should be remembered that the number of Union troops credited to Missouri was largely increased by re­ cruits gathered in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. The " Union troops " cred­ ited to the rebel States were largely col­ ored troops, who can hardly be said to have been Democrats at that time. ,, „ , It should not be overlooked, also, that known ex-Confederate Brigadier, died it required more Union troops to keep j lately at the General's farm at Brighton, Missouri from going into the Confeder­ acy than Missouri furnished to the Union. In fact, the Democratic State qf Missouri furnished 150,000 men to the Confederate Government, including those who carried on the guerrilla war with those serving in the Confederate army. And still Mr. Trumbull thinks Missouri did more to put down the re­ bellion than did any of a dozen ot the Northern States. Let the relatives and friends of the thousands of Illinois sol­ diers who lost their lives in the Missouri campaigns resent this boast of the supe­ rior loyalty of Missouri. THE "LOST CAUSE "REGAINED. What the Solid Mouth Jfleaius a* Viewed by a Southerner. [Washington Special to the Chicago Tribune.] The following are extracts from a let­ ter read by one of the prominent cler­ gyman of this city, from a native of South Carolina, a Republican of high character: We aro now on the brink of political destruc­ tion, and a failure of the people of the North to vote solidly for Garfield will leave the solid South niastor of the situation. The Republicans of the South cannot posaibly give a single elec­ toral vote for the Republican nominee, from the fact that the Democrats have the control of all the election .machinery, and, as heretofore, will count u» out. * * * I inclose an article en­ titled u The Census," clipped from a Southern journal, which shows that the South has gained in population nearly twice as fast us the North in the last decade. This, too, in face of the fact that we cannot induce emigrants to settle here, while hundreds of thousands go annually to the North and West. You Macoupin county, in this State. His decease was occasioned by a stroke of apoplexy which was followed by an effusion. Since that time--about five weeks ago--Gen. Johnson has been lying at his farm in an almost-unconscious state. Gen. Bushrod Johnson was a native of Ohio, and was born in the year 1817. In 1840-41 he entered West Point, where he graduated with high, honors. He served in the Mexican war as Lieutenant. At its close he resigned and located in Nashville as professor of a military institute. On the breaking out of the civil war he entered the Con­ federate army as a Brigadier and was promoted to the rank of Major General* in 1863. He participated in many of the most important battles, such as Missionary Ridge, Shiloli, Chickamauga, and finally surrendered at Fredericks- burg. At the termination of the war he returned to Nashville and resumed his professorship in the Military Academy. The loss of his wife rendered Nashville distasteful to him, and this and his bad health induced him to remove to St. Louis, Mo., where he engaged in the commission business. He remained there two or three years, and then re­ tired to his farm at Brighton, where h» met his death. j The Day of Judgment--Is It Set far ! 1881f I 1881. This is a very peculiar number, j The sum of its digits* is 9xt>. It is di- i visible by 9 without a remainder. The ! remaining quotient consists of two prime factors, 11 and 19. It reads the same will doubtless remember my predictions ui • both ways. If 28 be set under 81 and regard to the appointment of Democratic su- 1 the two added the sum is 99. If the IS THE TROOPS IN THE WAR. [From the Chicago Tribune.] We yesterday called attention to the | statement made by Judge Trumbull to I the effect that the Democratic State of I Missouri had furnished more troops for the Union army than had certain small Republican States. We pointed out the fallacy of Judge Trumbull's conclu­ sions, which rested on suggestions which were false and omissions of what was true. We find going the rounds of the Democratic press an elaborate state­ ment, in which Judge Trumbull's claim for the Southern States is wonderfully magnified, ard what is the more wonder­ ful is, that the figures are attributed to the Chicago Tribune, and the Tribune, it is stated, obtained ite figures from Secretary of War McCrary. Here are pel-visors of tin- census for the South, and, if the statement contained in this article be true, there can scarcely be a doubt that the returns have been doctored. * * * The Democratic iioliticians of the South aro marshaling their losts. The Confederate survivors are every­ where organized. 'lheirold tattered Hags are thrown to the breeze, and the veterans of the lost cause aro again matching under their folds for they know not what. They are to be ready for any emergency, expected to arise if there is any i>ossibility to count Hr.ncock in. * " ' Don't be afraid to speak of the glorious deeds of your gairl'iit dond who fell in defense of the Union. Lel^iu-ir deeds be vindicated by every living coniratfe and urge all to vote as they fought^. Our opponents will call everv patriotic appeal " waving tho bloody shirt." while at the same time they will flaunt "their biootly rags of treason in the face of every loyal man in the South. Gen. Grant on the Situation. Ger. Grant has recently written a let­ ter to Gen. Arthur, in which he says : I be reversed and then added to 81 tiie sum is 162, the sum of the digits of which is 9. The 162 is also divisible by 9, giving a quotient of 18, which is A second time divisible by 9. If the 81 be reversed and added to 18, the aum is 36^ which is also divisible by 9, and the SOB* of its digits is also 9. But what of it ? Add the following considerations be­ fore you press an answer: 1. Thoafe who have cultivated the occult seieuoBp have always held the number 9 to bis possessed of great significance. 3. Those who have made a study of tiMft numerical symbolism of the scriptureh luive regarded the number 9 as equally significant. It is *' a number of finality or judgment, of creaturely complete­ ness," says Dr. Mahan. And he adds, " It is the factor of all the great dates, of' , iudjnnent--viz.: of the flood, the destrne» When I go East I "fhv ̂ , tion of Sodom, the overthrow of Ph»-until next spring, except one da\, the-a or no- , .4 o veuiber, to cast a vote for Gartield and Arthur, and would not prefer to break up so soon. I hope vou mav have a rousing meeting that may awaken the people to the importance of keeping tho control of the-Oovermnent in the hands of the Republican party until we can have two national parties, every member of which can 1 ana cast his ballot as judgment dictates, without j servsr. fear of molestation or ostracism, and have it houestlv counted--parties not differing i<i opin­ ion as to whether we are a nation, but as to policies to secure the greatest good to the greatest number of its citizens. Sincerely be­ lieving that the Democratic party as now con­ stituted is not a fit party to trust with the con­ trol of the General Government, I believe it to the interest of all sections, South as well as North, that the Republican party should suc­ ceed in November. raoh, the captivity, and the final de­ struction of Jerusalem." As we haTe seen, it enters in a variety of ways into the 1881. What of it now? Has 1881 a judgment in store for the human race, what is it?--Lutheran and ̂ THE last time Sfnythekins went to see his girl lie took some oranges. He called it suck-it court. THE umbrella as a lightning-rod will not probably come into general use. But Gen. Fay, of Elizabeth, N. J., was in Newark, during a shower, and, while passing in front of a church that was struck by lightning, the fluid bursfed several holes in his umbrella, and m down the ribs, passing off without in­ juring him. He exhibited the ftmbfelta to his friends, who found that ite lutatra usefulness is greatly impaired util it gate .'•* •