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* CHINESE HORROR. ILLINOIS £?lamdcalcr I. VAN SLYKE. ESIter and Publisher. HcHENRY, ILLINOIS & F LOBD LVOHB, wlto tendered his resig­ nation as Minister at Paiis on the re­ tirement of the Glsdsfcme Ministry, bM consented to reman at his post until June of next year, when he will retire- THE slowest method, trat best results obtained by pistol practice at a target, •re said to be had by planting the feet •part, locking the arras in front of the chest, raising the trigger of the revolver Across.the left elbow, and theft, looking leftward, raising the locked framework Of the arms till the sight, are on a level •with the left eye. THERE are IT),000 temperance organ- J|»tio$g^inrfE&i|b£di ll£000 of which 'toe for adults. Of the latter one-half are open,or publics, and one-lialf "close." The former are mostly attached to tem­ perance leagues and associations, and the latter are temperance "orders." She Scotcli and Irish have important leagues and associations of their own. , THE current superstition that Boston i produces the brairs that make the city the great literary and intellectual cen- , ter of America has no foundation. Eowells is an Ohio man, and Aldrich was born fa Kfj4ir Hampshire, and of tiro • Writers really born in Boston nearly all are young, end but, .just beginning to make th'pw mailt, slfbh As RoVert Grant, F. J. Sim] son, John T. Whfcelright, and / ^Cabot Lodgax; ,\ «j[ IN Auburn, James D. S^sli heard the tolling cf the prison bell, and saw the JJag hoisted at half-mast. "Grant is dead," the keeper standing by said, in answer to his upptaliug look. The ' prisoner Btood motionless for a mo­ ment, his hands by his sides, and in meditation. He then raised one hand, and his head cfcuk upon it. Iti this po­ sition he Blood two minutes, seemingly . iu silent prayer, and them went to " y i r o r k . ' : • ; ' • V I - t , u ' ' ' " ' AN engineer in a quartz mill in Cali­ fornia met with a frightful death re­ cently. His clothing caught on a re­ volving wheel, and he was whirled rapidly around, his body coming 'Violently in contact with the floor at •. «ach revolution. How long he was in this condition is unkuown, as there was DO one else in tho mill at the time, and fae was only discovered when his daughter went to call him to sapper. The body was horribly mangled. A NEW industry in the southern forests is the utilization of the needles of the long-leaved pine (Pinus palus- tris.) The leaves are soaked in a bath to remove the glazing, and then "crinkly" for stuffing cushions and other upholstering purposes. They are Specially valuable on shipboard, and Ither places where furnintre is in danger of becoming infested with in­ jects. The turpentine which remains 111 the leaves makes a most inhospitable abode for these annoying visitors. energy and virility by putting him face to face with nature and solitude." Every Sunday tbo Bordeaux Club will start for "study walks and graduated promenades" in the environs. "Mar­ ches-etudes" turns out to mean an early start, breakfast in the woods, and the exploration of sites and ruins. In the afternoon there will be games, then a sapper, and back to bed at nightfall, having "transformed into strength that activity which every man poss'sses, but which in towns he expends in unhealthy pleasures." IT is a very pretty story which comes from Greenwich, Connecticut. Some­ thing more than half a century ago a couple living there were engaged to be married, but one of the accidents of life separated them, and they drifted apart. Neither was free, but neither forgot the sentiment of the past. A few months ago the man hei>rd that the woman be lrnd cared for s6 long since was at last relieved of all ties, as was he, and he sought her at once. He fonnd here nnehanged, in heart at least, and now they are married. The man is 79 years of age, the woman is a few years his junior. It is probable that the couple will have to be careful about rheumatism and other trifles of the sort, but young couples needn't laugh at them. They will get more happiness out of five years together than more thoughtless ones would out of fifteen, and they will be buried to* gether. ' THE St Louis Globe-Democrat ob- jects to the jmrelv scientific reports made of exploring expeditions, and commends the suggestion d¥ an eastern publication that a newspaper reporter should be attached to the force of every cruiser, that a popular account of all discoveries made might be written. This suggestion has a degree of merit. The reporter, if at all enter­ prising, would possibly discover more than any one else on a cruise, and soon restoro the kraken and sea-serpent to their old standing; but with the solid facts of the expedition he would be equally generous, and would put the account into a form worth reading. It has been unfortunate that most ex­ plorers have lacked the art of making a graphic narrative in print. Living­ stone did only tolerably well with what he saw in Africa, and it is asimple matter of fact that no Arctic expedi­ tion has been accompanied by a man ! fitted to describe in a striking manner ' the strange scenes of that strange region, though Dr. Hayes made a good lecture on the subject ,* SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN. Bo Opens the Ohio Campaign a Ringing Speedf «t Mt GileacL * THE turning of an artificial eye in the head is not due to any improved mech­ anism about the shell, but simply to the modern method of operating on the genuine ere. In the old times it was thought necessary to cut out the injured eye entirely, but now the small­ est possible portion is removed, and on the stump, which continues to move with the muscles, the artificial organ is fitted, and moves with the action in­ stead of remaining fixed. The eyes themselves have been little * Improved since their invention. THE young ladjeat of Lopdon? pp.In­ scribed and gave a rose ball recently, which the Prince of Wales made an in­ effectual effort to spoil because the committee blackballed a girl whom he wished invited. He announced that he "would not sanction the festival" unless the sentence of exclusion against her was rescinded; but the girls, with 'unusual spirit, held oft tlieir course, and even the London World is com­ pelled to protest against the s-ystein of social espionage and terrorism whieh has its center at Marlborough House. OF the twenty-two pall-bearers at Abraham Lincoln's funeral, only seven are alive. The seven are: Gen. Simon Cameron, Elihu B. Washburne, Col. H. G. Worthington, the l?ev. Green Clay Smith, Alexander H. Coffroth, Henry L. Dawes, find John CotmeSfa. The dead pall-bearer3 are: Lafayette S. Foster, Edwin D. Morgan, Keverdy Johnson, Richard Yates, Ben F„ Wade, Schuylet Colfax, Gen/ U. S. Grant, Gen. $e|r£ W^nir tialleck, Gen. ̂ - A. Nichols, Admiral David G. Farragut, Admiral W. B. Shubrick, Col. Jacob Zeller, Orville H. Browning, Thomas Cor win. and George Ashmun. A COBRESPONDENT of The New York Pout, who baa been studying the col­ ored people of the South, says many of the preachers "are gifted with remark- able fluency, and can run with true or­ atorical skill oVefr the whole gamut of emotions. Not one of them whom I beard couched his sermons in gram­ matical language,' and yet sCme'spoke with such genuine power .that this de­ fect was forgotten. Tliere w as at times, too, a striking aptness and picturesque- ness of illustration, a use of racy smiles and figures of speech, drawn from their -observation of the^. fields ASd forests, 'and its manifold 'and ever-changing forms of li e, or from their personal experience in those lowly walks of existence in wliih all o their days had run. Most of the sermons, however, were strangely irrelevant and incoher­ ent. BORDEACX has just started a society called the Walker-Tourists of France, which publishes a curious prospectus. The exercise which brings them to­ gether, say these pedestrian, "changes fat into muscle, and develops the chest and legs, but n^re,, nobly e evates the aantimenti of man, aid restores his THE Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen has been enriched by a remarkable discovery made at a small place near Thisted, on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. Two men dig­ ging in a gravel pit in the neighbor­ hood of an old burial mound, called Thor's Mound, struck an earthen vessel with their picks, disclosing a number of' gold pieces. On examin­ ation it was found that an earthen vessel of about seven inches diameter at the rim, and covered with a flat stone, had been buried about a foot and a half below the surface, and this had contained about a hundred little golden boats, curiously worked, varying in size from three to four and a half inches. A gunwale and frames of thin strips of bronze had first been formed, and these had been covered with thin gold plates, some of which were further ornamented with impressions of con­ centric rings. The boats, of which only a few are in a fair state of preservation, are tapered at both ends, and resemble the Danish fishing craft of the present day. This discovery, which may be re­ garded as a deposited treasure of votive offerings, and belongs doubtless to the close of the bronze age, proves that frame-built vessels were already known at that time, and that man was not satisfied with the hollowed-out trunks of trees. The gold of which these littU". fishing models are composed was valued at £27, which amount, together with a gratuity, has been forwarded to tb« finders, who are both poor men. Makin? Artificial Flowers. "There are at leat 1,500 girls in this city engaged in the manufacture of arti­ ficial flowers," said a large manufac­ turer. "Most of them ara French girls, and the work is done in old lofts up around the French quarter. Few of these girls are of the type so familiar to the novel reader, the sweet young thing with a hectic flush and a consumptive cough, who is supporting her three decrepit inaidep aunts cn the pittance earned at this deadJy trade. Most of them are buxom damsels, with big feet and a Well-developed tendency to spend their wages on the adornment of their persons. Still some parts of the wo(k do interfere somewhat with their breathing machinery, I believe. New York furnishes about half the stock consumed by this country, which form­ erly all came from Paris, but only the cheaper varieties ore manufactured here. "The method is simply this. One hundred layers of prepared aud tinted silk are laid one over the other and cut by a stamp into the desired shape. These are then retinted. shaded and put into the required shape by the girls. No, there is no difference of taste exhibited by different parts of the country. The best people in every section want the best goods, though the South is rather a iignt buyer, and prefers the cheaper varieties. "With the artificial flowers, ostrich feathers and plumes are naturally con­ nected These are imported in the raw state and colored and liuished here. '1 here are sev. ral large dealers; one especially, carries on an immense trade, ! and is now putting up a large building to accommodate his growing bussiness. He is doubiless familiar to your readers as a trotting man. as he owns the fastest trotting stallion there is going, and is a prominent figure in racing circles."-- Neic York Tribune. FREDERICK KESSELSING, of Athenia, has invented a power loom for silks, which is said to surpass tho best-known silk looms in Europe and America. T e take up motion can b * changed to I anv number of picks without^ changing j the wheels or p.nions. It will run 129 to 130 picks per minute on gros grains, | md up to ISO on satins. The Work of the Eepublican Party as \£oompared with That of the Opporittoa. Democratic Pretenses of Reform Shown to Be a Sham Since Cleveland Came La. Senator John Sherman addressed a large and enthusiastic mass meeting at Monnt Gilead, Ohio., on the 126th of August. It was the opening speech of the campaign. Mr. Sherman spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens: It is a long time since I had the pleasure of addressing the Republicans of Morrow County, but 1 have not forgotten, nor will I ever forget, the great obligations I am under to them for their friendship and partiali­ ty when, more than thirty years ago, 1 first ap­ pealed before them asp candidate for Congress. Those wove important and stirring times. The Republican party was then formed as an active and elleetive organization to resist the extension of slavery. Many of the actors tn those scenes have passed away, and now a new generation, the sons and even the grandsons of the old Republicans 'of Morrow County, are charged with the duty ol completing and ad­ vancing the work of the llepubliean party. You need not be ashamed of the record of that party. Our adversavies now concede the wisdom and success of all prominent Republi­ can measures, as well as the merits of the great leaders of the republican party, (inly a few days since I beard mv colleague, St nator fayne, in addressing old soldiers at Fremont, extol Lincoln and Grant in the highest terms of praise, and siy the war was worth all it cost," and he thanked <iod that slavery had been abol­ ished. Only recently, when the great procession conveyed the mortal remains of Grant to their resting-pliice, I heard active Confederates extol him In tne highest terms of praise, and some of them frankly gloried m the success of Republi­ can measures, and < specially in the abolition of slavery. * It may be unkind, but it is natnral, for us to recall what these same men said of Lincoln and Grant and the war, and the abolition of slavery within thirty years past. The Republican party was a "black abolition party." Lincoln was an "ape." Grant was a "butcher," and Union sol­ diers were "Lincoln hirelings." The war was the sum of all crimes. Yet these same men now seek to hide their opposition to the war and their abuse of Lincoln and Grant by fulsome onlogy and praise. Surely a party that, within six years from its < ruanization overthrew the powerful, dominant Democratic party, and for twenty-four years afterward conducted the operations of a great government, in peace and in war, with such success as to win the support and acquiescence even of its enemies, can fairly claim to be worthy of the confidence and sup­ port of the great body of the people. Yet, strange to say, by the defection of a corn- pa: atively tew men ir> three Republican States, our old adveTsaries have been raised to power aga'n in the National Government. Some of the ve: y men who boastfully threat­ ened to break up the I'nion, and with the oath of office iu support of the Constitution fresh upon their lips conspired and confederated to overthrow it, waged war aitainst it. and were the cause of the loss of half a million of lives and thousands of millions of treasure, have been placed in high office again, in the \ ery seats of power which they abandoned with scorn and defiance. Two members of the Con­ federate Congress and one man w ho sympa­ thized witli them are at the head of great de­ partments of the Government. I saw the I'nion flag at half-mast floating over the lnterii.r De­ partment in sitin of honor and mourning for the death of Jacob Thompson, whom we re­ garded as a defaulter and a conspirator. This country is now represented abroad by men who within twenty- five years were in arms to over­ throw it, and the governing power in the Ex­ ecutive branch of the Government is in sympa­ thy with the ideas of. and selects the chief offi­ cers of the Government fiom, the men who were in war against it. This strange turn in events has but one example in history, and that was the restoration of Charles II. after the brilliant but brief Protectorate of Cromwell, and. like that restoration, is a reprcach to the cUillzat.on of the aire. Why was this? What measure of Republican policy is condemned? What measure of good policy is proposed or advocated by our adversa­ ries that would not ba better accomplished by the Republican party V What hope or aspiiation of good government can the mugwumps of the East expect to accomplish by Democratic suc­ cess? We were told that the Republican party had been In power for twenty-four years, that great frauds had been committed, that they wished to examine the books, that they wished to clean out the "Augean st..ble,"that bad nom­ inations had been made, and that the Republi­ can party did not execute in good faith the civil- service law. Upon pretexts like these the elec­ toral votes »f three or four Northern States, add­ ed to the solid South, secured the election of Mr. Cleveland. Let us examine these pretenses. They have examined tlie books and the vaults, and they find every dollar of public money on hand or ac­ counted for. It was feared lor a while that there was a deficiency of two cents in the count, but these were found to have been dropped upon the floor by the counters, so that the money is all on hand. The "Augean stable" is now found by our adversaries to be the most perfect j iece of administrative machinery in the world, for 1 venture to say that in no Government in our own or in any country, or in any time, are the re­ ceipts and disbursements of the Government so faithfully and honestly accounted for as in the Treasury of the United States. The "Augean stable" was cleanly swept and kept by the Re­ publican party, and now, after a full exami­ nation by Manning and Jordan and other New York Democrats, they do not find a speck or blemish, or a fault in the magnificent machinery placed in their hands by the folly of tfie Amer­ ican people. They find it the best conducted business workshop in the world. The civil-service law, a measure ̂ adopted by the Republican party, aided by"a few Demo­ crats, was being gradually put in force by the Republican party, and now is the only restraint against the wholesale removal of worthy offi­ cers bv a Demos: atic auministration. They commenced the cry of "turn the rascals out." They found none, but they did find "offensive partisans," and turned them out and put ras­ cals in. I acknowledge the good Intentions of Mr. Cleveland, but he knows as well as I do that the hungry and thirsty crowd who are howling for the removal ot every Republican office­ holder must in a short time prevail, aud all pre­ tense of the observance of the law will be aban­ doned. Every Republican now in office is an "offensive partisan," and the most noisy and blatant of partisan Democrats will lie the cho­ sen candidates for all offices, from the smallest Postmaster of the Nasbv school to the rebel Generals who represent us in foreign lands. We must admit, fellow-citizens, that we were not beaten by the 1 lemocrats, but by the dis­ gruntled Republicans of three important States, who opposed the nominee of the Re­ publican party, and, in the great State of New York, by a narrow majority of but little more than a thousand, defeated lilaine and Logan. It was not ti e want of merit in these two great leaders of our party, but the disappointments, personal contests, and controversies incident to a long lease of power. But even this defection among Republicans would have been ineffective but for the solid South, held together in political fellowship by crimes, violence, and fraud wnich, if continued, will as surely renew ;ill the strifes of the civil war as that the sun rolls around in its course. The Republican party was certainly liberal and just to the rebels lately in arms against the country. We d( prived them of no political pow­ er; no blood was shed; no confiscation was had; and more generous terms were conceded to them than ever before had been extended to an unsuccessful party in a civil war. Their leaders emphasized that at the burial of oar great com­ mander. Gen. Grant. The lesult of the settle­ ment by the constitutional amendments at the close or the war was to give them increased po­ litical power upon condition that the slaves should be free and should be allowed to vote, and that all political distinctions growing out of race, rolor, or previous condition of servi­ tude should be abolished; and yet to-day, the Republican party is faoed by a solid South, in which the negro is deprived, substan- tislly, of all his political riehts by open vio­ lence or by frauds as mean as any that have been committed by penitentiary convicts, and as openly and boldly done as any highway robbery. By this system and by the acquiescence of a few Northern States, the men who led in the civil war lia\e been lesto ed to power, and hop?, practically, to reverse all the results of the war. This is the specter that now haunts American politics, and may mak • it Just as vital and necessary to appeal to the Northern States to unite again against this evil, not so open and arrogant as slavery, but more danger­ ous and equally uniust. '1 he question then was the slavery of the black man. Now the ques­ tion is the equality ot the white man; whether a Southern man in Mississippi may, by depriv­ ing a majority of the legal voters in the State ot their right to vote, exercise twice the political power of a white man in the North, wiiere tne franchise is free and open and equal to all. When this subject is pressed we are some­ times met with denial; bnt in the face of proofs so conclusive, spread upon the public records1 and in the public journals, and substantially admitted over and over a^ain in the South, denial will not answer. The actual returns of the elections show that in all the .-'outhern States where the negroes are in the majority, they are either not permitted to vote or the re­ turns are changed. Now thirty-eight white Democratic Presiden­ tial electors and thirty-eight white Democratic members of the House of Kepresentatives, based upon more than six million colored peo­ ple living in the Southern States, are returned from those States, and scarcely a single repre­ sentative of the colored race, or one elected by the colored people, votes in the Klectoral Col­ lege or in the House of Representatives. It is said that this is a matter for each State to reg­ ulate. That doctrine, we hoped, was over­ thrown bv the civil war. The right of repre­ sentation is a right not given to the State, but to the people of the State, part of the people of the United Stater, ind we in Ohio are as much Intonated tut' DM people~of Sooth CaraUaa should be fairly reprenented. for tbevot«ef every Representative ta Cwurr*M, and of evvrv Presidential J lector, affects us. alike, from whatever place elected. When we point out these offenses committed in the South it is said that we are raising the Woody shirt, that we are reviving the issues of the war--that the war is over. I hope the War is over, and that the animosities of the war will pass away and be dead and burled. Anger and bate ahd prejudice are not wise councilors in peace or in war. Generosity, forgiveness, and charity are irreat qualities of the human heart, but, like everything else that is good, they may be carried into excess, and may degenerate into faults. '1 hey must not lead us to forget the obligations of dnty and honor. While we waive the anirr.osit e-t of the war, we must never fail to hold on, with courage and fortitude, to all the results of the war. Our soldiers fought in no holiday contest, not merely to test the manly qualities ot the men of the North and the South, not tor rower, or plunder, or wealth, or title; they fought to se­ cure to themselves and their posterity the bless­ ings of a strong National Government. It was for the preservation ot the Union; a Union not of Mates, but of the people of the United States: not a Confederate Government, bnt a National Government. The priservation of the Union was the central dea of the war. The Confederate soldier fought for what he was led to think was the right of a State to secede from the I nion at its pleasure. The Union sol­ diers triumphed. The Confedt rate soldiers were compelled to an unconditional surrender. The sacrifices, wounds, and deaths of hun­ dreds of thousands of brave men were suffered to save the I'nion and strengthen its founda­ tions. We may forgive without qualification what the retels did in the war, but we can not, with honor, surrender what our soldiers won in the war; nor can we yield an iota < f the bent fits they have conferred upon the country, greater far than all the cost of the war. Sometimes I fear that our moderation is veraing on indifference; that while our minds are distracted by local po itics,the old doctrines are being revived again. We forget sometimes that it was the Union cause that won, and not the rebel cause. 1 have recently heard Jeffer­ son Davis, in the Senate of the United States, extolled as a patriot, and I have been called in qut stion for denouncing him as a cons] irator and a traitor. I have seen many signs pt a disposition to waive all the glorious results ot the war, to make no difference between the blue and the gray, to revive a train the doctrines of seces­ sion and State rights taught b. fore the war. The tendency ot the Democ.atic party is all that way. 1 do not question the patriotism of my Democratic neighbors here in Chio, but. we know by old experience they follow the leaders of their party. The governing force of that party is with the ir'outh, as in the days of Buchanan. We have no sign of protest from Democratic orators or journals of the whole­ sale deprivation of the colored people in the South of trafar right to vote, nothing of the crimes by wmeh the South is made solid. The only hopeful sign was that Cleveland would not appoint a man as Postmaster in Copiah County, Mississippi, who indorsed the murder ot Mat­ thews; but, as a rule, in all the North no prefer­ ence is given to a Union soldier over any otner applicant. The Union soldiers appointed by this administration are few and l'ar between, while in every case it was not the record of tne soldier that was in his fuvor, but his service* as a Democratic partisan. In the South it may be said that no Union man has been appointed to ortic. The offices are filled from the rebel rauks. No man who ac­ quiesces iu the results of the war, who honora­ bly demands a fair ballot and a fair count can be appointed to office in the South. The rebels are in «s absolute mastery in the South as they would have been had the Confederacy succeeded. Fellow citizens, the line drawn between the two parties is now as distinct as it was during the war, but we occupy a different field of bat* tie. Then we fought for the preservation of the Union, and, as a means to that end, for the ab­ olition of slavery. Now, the Uuion saved and slavery abolished, we tight for the erual polit­ ical rights of all men and the iaitliful observ­ ance of the constitutional amendments. W*yjre torthe exercise ot national authority, lor the preservation of rights conferred oy the Consti­ tution, and upon this broad issue we invite co­ operation from the South as well as the North, Upon this issue we intend to make our appeal to the honest and honorable people of the Southern States. We think they arc bound in 'honor to faithfully observe the conditions of peace granted to them by Gen. Grant snd pre­ scribed by the constitutional amendments. If they do this we will have i>eaee, union, and fraternity. Without it we have agitation, con­ tents, and complaints. Upon this issue I will go before the people of the South, and, turning my back upon all the animosities «,f the war, appeal only to their sense of honor and justice. It they continue under their Democratic rulers the present system of ostracism and oppression and injustice, a party can be formed among them who will demand justice to all, and thus break down the solid South, based as it is upon crime aud fraud. If not, tt is the duty of the people cf the Northern States, without distinc­ tion of party, to unite the North in the execu­ tion of the constitutional amendments, and, under the fourteenth amendment, to deny the States that do not protect their citizens in the elective franchise, representation based upon the number so disfranchised. In another respect the lines between thel^am- ocratic and the Uepublicau parties arc mtfrked sind distinct. They still look upon this Govern­ ment as a Confederate Government, with power so limited that it cannot enforce l a laws or the decieesot its courts except, by local agencies. They have learned nothing by the war, and for­ gotten nothing. All their theories, inherited from the school of slavery, tend to cripple and belittle tha Na­ tional Government, while, on the other hand, the Republican party regards the National Gov­ ernment as complete and supreme, to the cx- t m of the powers granted, with full authority to enforce its laws, and to compel the people of each State to ot>ev them. We believe we have power under the Constitution to protect every citizen in the full enioyment of every right conferred by the Constitution, and that no State authority, legislative or judicial, can in any way interfere with the enforcement of these rights. This power ought to be exercised to secure free and fair elections for electors ot Presidents and for members of Congress and Senators of th • United States. If the Repub­ lican party is true to its principle, it will en­ force this doctrine. We also believe that it is the right and duty ot the Government by its commercial laws and regulations to foster and protect American in­ dustry, to diversify the employments of its peo­ ple, and build up its manufactures, to aid its ships and shipping, and, generally, by its com­ mercial and tax laws, to develop new forms of industry, and give new employments to labor. This line of demarcation between the two par­ ties is constantly shown in the action of tneir members in Congress. This Republican policy has led to the great development of our miners, manufactories, and agriculture. It is now in great danger of overthrow by the ascendency of irec-trade ideas in the Democratic party, which now threaten the disturbance of our industries. You may rely upon it that the Republican party Is the progressive, affirmative party of the country, proposing and accomplishing meas­ ures, while the Democratic party is the nega­ tive, resisting party in the county, generally in the opposition and'proposing nothing. Amonsr the results of Republican policy I can point you to the preservation ( f the Union, the abolition of slavery, the constitutional amend­ ments, the homestead laws, a sound national currency, the maintenance of the public credit, the lefundmcof the public debt at the lowest rates of interest, the security ot the rights of naturalized citizens, a wise and fruitful system of taxes, the protection of American industry by our tariff law s, the resumpripn of si ecie payments, and, indeed, every wise law of Con­ gress for a period of more than twenty years. Let us contrast these great measures with what has been done by the Democratic party, and that, .after all, is the best test of parties as of men It steadily resisted, with* violence and rancor, all the measures 1 have stated, although they now protess to acquiesce in them. The last House of Representatives was stronir- ly Democratic. What useful measures did it propi se or adoptNone w hatever. Hopelessly divided, they kept the busi­ ness of the country in constant unrest by a contest as to the tariff, between free trade by Morrison and quasi protection by Randall. But it may be said that the Senate was Republican and would not agree to their ac:s. You maybe thankful for that, and that 1b your safeguard for the future. liet us tike la ting of ballot-boxes Mn hardly be daaaftted as Crimes. Here was an officer of the law, charged with the dnty ot protecting cittcen* in their rights, arresting by wholesale more than one hundred citizens, confining them When they could not be reached until after the elec­ tion was over, and then discharged them with­ out accusation or «tz1al. This pardon we may 1 airly regard as evidence of «the view taken by the Presi­ dent of the U nited States ot frauds against th* e cctlve franch.se If snch wrongs can be thru condoned, and there Is no protection to th9 citi­ zen against similar occurrences, the time will soon come when elec ions will cease by the gen­ eral confession of the people that free govern* ment by electioi s has failed, snd the "man on horseback" will be called upon to repeat again his lole of history. With my kindly feelings toward President Cleveland, I believe that Tn this act he has (lone more to lower his adminis­ tration in the opinion of conservative men than by any other or all the a -ts of his life. Take another act of this administration. Both 1 arties are pledged to adopt all suitable meas­ ures to restore our foreign commerce, destroyed by the operation of rebel cruisers during the war. Many efforts have been made by Congress and by American ship-buildrrs to secure this great national object. One of the most success­ ful of tlsese was John lioach, an uneducated Irishman, bnt whose native genius and energy enabled him to establish great ship-yards, whera he built many ships for private parties and some tor the United States, lie had nearly com­ pleted the Dolphin, a Government vessel, and was constructing, under contracts, other Gov­ ernment vessels. Every part of the work had been done and all the material furnished under the direct supervision of naval officers, accord­ ing to plans prescribed by them. The Dolphin, nearly completed, went out on a trial trip to test her speed. It is alleged by Mr. Roach that she fully met all the requirements of his con­ tract. The Seer tary of the Navy, however, claimed that the vessel did not attain the speed fix^d by the law. The Attorney General de­ cided that although Roach had built the vessel in precise comformity with the plans of the naval engineers, and of materials approved by them, yet, if their joint handiwork did not se­ cure the speeii required by the iaw the vessel costing might be refused and thrown on the hands ot Roach. The decision miide l!oach a guarantor of the intelligence and skill of the Government officers, and yet required liim with­ out qne-tion to iolfow their plan» and speci­ fications as to model, work, and material. It is sufficient to sav that with such a rule none but a fool or a madman would take a conti :t of the Government to build a ship or anything else, 'i he rate of speed fixed by the law was directory to the naval engineer. If their plans and models, properly executed by the con.ract- or, did not secure a vessel of the proper speed, it was the fault of the Government and its agents, and not of the contractor; and yet. upon such a decision, they forced Roach to stop his works, to make an assignment, to throw out of employment thousands of workmen, and ar­ rest for the time the construction not only of Government vessels, but of many commercial vessels tor private parties, and greatly add also to the general depression of business. Another case ot d sregard of American inter­ ests by this administration was the practical nullification of the law ot the 'ast sesDon of Congiess appropriating $400,000 to enable the Postmaster General to contract, after legal ad­ vertisement, with the lowest bidder among American steamship companies lor the trans­ portation of foreign mails. This act of Con­ gress, intended to foster and build up American commerce, WHS by the Postmaster General dis­ regarded, and conti acts were let mainly to Knglish steamship companies. I have not, as a rule, supported any system of subsidies, but this proposition did receive the support of members of both political parties, and was believed to be very important for American interests in building np commerce, especially with the South American Suites. The subject had been fully and fairly debated in Consress. TlnvJaw was plain and directory, and should havv/been executed by the I ostmaster General, witjraview to carry out the will of Congress. l,have caretuily read the papers in respect to this matter, and it does seem t > me that by refusing to make arrangements for carrying the foreign mail in American steamships, he has violated the spirit, if not the language, of the law, and shown an utter disregard of the intent of C. ngress, as well as the rights and inter­ ests of American ships, and acted solely in the interests of foreign steamship companies. No A"t of the administration has tended in the slightest degree to revive the business of the country. It w as the hope that a change would make times easier that led many persons to vote the Democratic ticket. What has been the result? What suggestion, even, has been made by any member of the administration that will brighten in the least the industry of the country? None whatever. The-Secretary of the Treasury changed the form of the month­ ly debt statement, and made obscure what was formerly clear. He excluded from the moneys on hand the entire body of the fractional sil­ ver coin, thus tending to lessen the stated bal­ ance in the Treasury l 'low the real amount, and at the same time te ling to depreciate the value of this silver currency. One good effect of this pretended reform is to show how foolish Air. Hendricks was in the last campaign in stat­ ing that ther> was $ 100,0011,000 belonging to the United States lyinir idle in the Treasury, kept there by the Republican party. Where is this surplus? How many barrels ot flour w ill it buy for each citizen of tho United states? How shallow was the hypocrisy and demagogism by which the party came into power? The arrangement by the Secretary with the national banks in New York to get, as a matter of favor, some g Id in exchange for silver coin seems to me a violation ot the sub-treasury act which clearly forbids all exclihnge of money. It only tended to emphasize the depreciation of silver and to lower it more and in public confi­ dence. This expedient of his predecessors of is­ suing sliver certificates in exchange for gold coin was a much more effective way to strength­ en the geld balances. It is sufficient. t > say that no act of the administra­ tion affecting the currency or finances has tended to restore confidence, to encourage industry, or to furnish employment. The business of all the departments seems to be confined to turning out experienced employes, against whom no fault is found except their fealty to the Republican party, and to putting in Democrats maiuly of the rebel hue. Kven the ordinary collection of the revenue Is ob­ structed by the demagogism that preceded the election. Illicit distilleries in the South, moon- Bhiners as they are called, were led to believo that Democratic success meant free whisky, no Internal Revenue Collectors, no United States Marshals. One hundred illicit distilleries are now in operation in Middle Tennessee, and make it impossible for legitimate distillers to conduct their business. The first fruits of Dem­ ocratic success are contempt for the law, harder times, a want ot confidence In the future, and a widening of the conflicts between capital and labor. Now, fellow citizens, I know it is easy enough to find fault and criticise persons charged with high public duties. I certainly have no desire to impugn the motives of the men in power, but sincerely wish them success. But I feel sure, lrom the composition of the Democratic party, from the intense sectional­ ism which controls its majority, from the narrow ideas they entertain in regard to the powers of the National Government, from the tendency to demagogism imong its leaders, from their want of principle, unity, and pur­ pose, from their long habits of twenty-four years in opposition, during which they have constantly lagged in the 1 ear of our magnificent progress, from their want of sympathy with tho active business interests of the conntty aud with the great ma^s of our fellow citizens who are engaged in it^vstrial pursuits, it is not possible lor the Democratic party to affirma­ tively administer a bold and active progressive Government like ours. It should a'so be remembered that the Demo­ cratic party bas been the chief agent in organ­ izing the frauds in elections ever since the Piaquemine frauds in Louisiana, and in this way has done more to sap the foundation of republican government than all the parties that have existed. And more recently in our own State, if we can believe their own prints and leaders, they have set a dangerous example of th > corrupt use of mon?y in cont rolling the election of a Senator of the United States by Oi en bribery and purchase. Surely those who have heretofore followed the fortunes of the Republican party and have shared in the honor of its illustrious history during the last thirty years, who must know Cleveland's administration, and test it Dy its | that it Is composed of the great body of the Thousands of laves Lost by Hoods In tho City of Canton asl \ Vicinity. V* WMe Tillages Swept Away--Stam- pop H«rr«h4r4|»r 71 - Situation. acts thus far, as thev affect great public in­ terests. The greatest danger to the country now is found in fraud at elections. As I have said, the Democratic party now holds the solid South by the meanest frauds, but Mr. Cleveland ma"/ say that is for Congress anei tor the law to deal with. But he had before him recently an application for the pardon of Lieut. Mullen, of Cincinnati, a police offi­ cer convicted of the greatest oppression and wrong. Here was an apportunity for .him to emphasize his view of violence at elections. Mullen arrested more than l(t0 colored men the night before the last Octo­ ber election and held them in the Hammond Union soldiers who saved the country, of the active, "intelligent, and business men of the land, of the great body of the farmers and la­ borers whose industry is the foundation ef our wealth, a party that has furnished most of the illustrious characters of our time--surely we ne ed not torn from snch an organization to seek anything that is good from the Democratic party. It is but fair that in my criticisms of this ad­ ministration I should say of the ITesldent that I believe he has endeavored to chpck, as far as he could, the disregard of the civil-service law and the tenure-of-office act; but, in spite of it, removals for purely partisan reasons are now Street Prison until after 0 o'clock on election i being made by the heads of departments, main dav, so that thev could not vote, and wittiout I )y hv the Postmaster General, at the rate of an" opportunity ' to appeal for the benefit of two hundred a day. Hundreds of Union sol- habeas corpus, anclbv gross wroni; he deprived diers have been discharged without the slightest them of their franchise. He was arreste i, in- complaint, except to give place to Democratic dieted, tried, and pleaded gnilty in the United partisans. States Court of the offense charged. Judge ^ 'oily it is for any man who has be n a Baxter, ot the Circuit » ourt of the United Republican to expect ot a Democratic admin- States, in his sentence says: > istiation the honest observance of the civil- "The testimony demonstrated that you know I service law, which the great mass of them have fomc of them to have been citizen-> or Cincin- | openly opposed from the beginning. It is de- nati for several years preceding their arrest; ! nounc -d bv nearly all their leaders, scoffed at and yet proceeded without inquiry, complaint, or proof to arrest and hold them in durance vile, as alleged in the indictment, under pre^ tense of official dnty, but in fact to prevent them from exercising their constitutional right to vote for a Iiepiesentative in Congress. The evidence of your guilt was so convincing that your zealous and able counsel voluntarily yield­ ed to its irresistible force, and with your ac­ quiescence manifested in open court consented to the finding made by the jury. This finding I and condemned, and openly evaded. It was the Democratic party that first invented in Ameri­ can politics the doctrine that "to the victors be­ long the spoils." To expect them to be even moderate in sharing the spoils would be to ex­ pect mercy of the wolf who has seized the lamb. THE Demodratio party has "reform­ ed Mr. Roach's ship-yard out of exist­ ence. Yet, called upon for a bill of thus obtajned isi^a vij^tual^confession by you particulars, it cannot show that "Mr. Roach ever received a dollar he did not earn, nor can it show th^at he did iu>t work according to 'contract when he built the Dolphin. i that the arrest and imprisonment of the per • sons named were for the wrongful purpose j a leaed in the indictment." j Here was the case of an offense so gross and scandalous that no circumstance could be added • to make it more crim naL Mullen was sen­ tenced to serve one year in the County Jail, and yet, long before his term expired he was par- I doned by the Pres dent of the United States. It does not help the matter to say that this pardon was based upon the petition of Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, and other Democratic parti- I sa'is, for such a petition, under the cecum­ s'ances, only condemns those who signet it. i If such an offense as this can be condoned in 1 tfaia way, there i« no protection acainst viol SOMETIMES kings have asses for advisers, but it bas often occurred that a bucking broncho was tho power behind the thrown. "Son men are always in luck." observed a tramjj. .upon reading that a man was f4rowi»Mi si wast »m*m" [Washington dispatch. 1 Details of the destruction in Caaton, China, and vicinity by the recent great rain-storm there have been received by private persons in this city. The flood was the most serious which has visited Canton in thirty years. More than 10,000 persons lost their lives, and a far greater number are starving.'Entire villages were engulfed, and the rice and silk crops in the vicinity were almost ruined. The price of rice has been raised eighteen per cent, in conse­ quence of the loss of the crop, liain fell the latter part of June, tilling and over­ flowing many of the livers. The streets of Canton were flooded for over a week. At Sez Ni City the water broke through the city wall. It is reported that several thou­ sand people were drowned in that place. The embankments of tho river wer.e broken in numerous places, and the water swept across the surrounding country, carrying everything before it. i;; A foreigner, who was an eye-witness of the scenes of devastation, reports that one night the l oat he occupied anchored near a bamboo grove. By morning the water had risen to the tops of (lie bamboos. At other points it rose as high as forty feet during the night time. The inhabitants fled from the villages and camped on the hillsides. At Mun:n, a market place, s ituated near an embankment of one of the streams con­ nected with the river which brings water from the north and west rivers, the majority of the inhabitants were drowned by the water breaking through the embankment. Some escaped to a piece of rising ground in the neighborhood, but the water con­ tinued to rise and gradually overtopped the elevation, drown ng those who stood upon it. Seventeen Chinese grad-^ nates in Canton, hearing of tJLu?-iUstress afid suffering prevalent iu their native villages, took passages on a bant with a view to pro­ ceeding home to render what assistance they could. On the way the boat was cap­ sized and all who weie in it were drowned. In some places the parents tied their chil­ dren on the high branches of trees, while they took measures for the general safety. The trees were washed tip by the roots and the heartrending cries of the children were silenced in the surging water. The body of a bride dressed in her bridal robes was fonnd floating in the river at Can­ ton. A large tub was also seen; it was picked up and found to contain a boy and a girl. With them was found a paper, stating their names, the day and hour of their liirtli. The parents had taken this means to save the lives of their offspring. The writer adds that the sufferings which thous­ ands are enduring are heartrending; parents replying, with tears in their eves, to their children's requests for food, that they have none. The people are obliged to use the filthiest water, and this, added to the dis­ eases which will ensne upon the subsid- atu-e of the water will greatly increase the horrors of the situation. Meantime, all that is being done by the inhabitants to abate their misery is the beating of gongs, burning of incense, and howling ef play­ ers to idols. WOKK OF A TEXAS FIEHO. Ha Makes Twenty Orphans, Tries to Kill His Wife, and Then Outs His Own Throat. fAnntin (Tex.) special.] The quintuple tragedy in Blanco County is confirmed by a stage-driver who has just arrived from that locality. The driver brought a letter to a gentleman in this city which gives particulars. The letter says: "There is considerable excitement in this county just now. caused by a terrible trage­ dy which occurred in the neighborhood of .Johnson City, in which live persons were killeil outright, three dangerously wounded, and one man is yet missing, who is prob­ ably killed. There had been some bad re­ ports concerning A1 Lackey and his daugh­ ter, who is about 13 or 14 years of age. About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Lac­ key, with his rifle in hand, mounted his horse and rode to the house of Berry Lac­ key, his brother. He fired upon the fam­ ily, instantly killing Mrs. Berry Lackey, whereupon Berry Lackey fled, pursued by A!, and when *bout one hundred yards from the house Berry fell and A1 ran up to him aud, while he was lying prostrate, shot him through the head. A son of Berry, who ran away when his mother was killed, said he saw his father fall and heard him plead piteouslv for mercy, but his Uncle A1 tired and killed him. Having killed his brother and sister-in-law, A1 Lackey hur­ riedly mounted again and rode to the house of J. C. Stokes, who lived but a short dis­ tance from the scene of the first murder, and opened tire, killing first Mrs, Stokes, then Stokes, and finally their daughter, Mrs. Charlie Lackey. This made five vic- ttims. The infuriated monster then turned and rode home, and fired the last ball in his rifle into the body of the daughter. The girl is still alive, but can not possibly recover. Turning upon his wife. Lackey, with knife in hand, pursued her across a field, but she saved herself by flight. He then returned to his house and drew the knife across his own throat, in­ flicting a dangerous but not necessarily fa­ tal wound. Just after cutting his own throat he saw Tom Burdick riding toward the house, "when, inspired with the strength of a fiend, he again mounted his horse and rode toward Burdick. As he met the latter he offered him his left hand to shake, meantime holding his right hand over his bleeding throat, also holding the knife in his hand. As Burdick shook hands with him, Lackey suddenly plunged the dagger into Burdick's side, inflicting a wound which physicians say is fatal." The Sheriff was notified and immediate­ ly went to Johnson City, where Lackey had gone, and, in company with two deputies, Slaced Lackey in an ambulance and rought him to jail, where he now lies in a precarious condition. With the exception, perhaps, of the mur­ der and cremation of the Lynch family near Hempstead some years ago this is the most horrible set of crimes ever commit­ ted in this State. Possibly the United States, in all its category of crimes, has no parallel to this. About twenty children are left orphans by this horrible and infamous monster. OUB COMMERCE. Exports of Provisions and BreadttnA. [Washington telegram.] The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re­ ports the total values of exports of do­ mestic cattle and ho£?8, and of beef, pork, aud dairy products as follows: July, 1883, $K,480,57U; July, 1884, $10,278,049; seven months ended July 31, 1885, $56,904,369; seven months ended July 31, 1884, #54,411,760; beef and pork products for nine months ended July 31, 1885, $;>7,- 70(5,092; beef and pork products^ for nine months ended July 31, 1884, $(>5,570,360. Dairy products for three months ended July 31, 1885, $4,031,716; dairy products for three months ended July 31, 1884, $5,204.5i'>0. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total values of the exports of breadstuff^ from the United States as fol­ lows: July, 1885, $8,714,305; July, 1884, $12,371,574; seven mouths ended July 31, 1885, $55,558,V82; seven months ended July 31, 1884. $80,546,131. HELEN HUNT JACKSON is said to have earned $3,000 annually with hor pen. --X> itchfield is to b« lig gas. --The apple crop Is alnost ft &ihtm about Monticello. --The Illinois State Fair, to beheld if<" Chicago. September 14 to 19, promises to be unusually complete in the exhibits. --Mr. and Mrs. Caihp, living near Ma* * con, have given a 369-acre farm, of the; value of $27,000, to the Illinois Wesleyaa University, a Methodist institution off Bloomington. * --The Chicago Postmaster, ft is said, em* ploys more wonfen than any of his pre* decessors, and possibly no postoffice in th%:'\-gi country is more distinguished for a thor* ough knowledge of the chamc er ot th« postal-card service than the postoffice i*. this city.--Daily Times. 3 --Governor Oglesby has intimated thai he will require the Secretary of Stats t§ order three special elect oas to be held th# Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem»I ber. The following vacancies are to b^ filled: The Supreme Judgeship in th|§ Seventh District, composed of the counts ties of Lake, Cook, Will. Kankakee, ant Dupage, to fill the vacancy caused by th«t d.ath of Judge Dickey: the Circuit Judgrf ship of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, comft posed of the counties of Bureau, La Bailee. Will, and Grundy, to fill vacancy caused by the. death of Juelge Josiah Mclioberts®; member of Congress in the Fifth Congress® ioiial District, composed of DeKalb, Kaney Boone, McHenry, and Lake Countus, to fili - vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Ellwood. There are one or two vacancies, of County Judgeships in the southern part of the State to be filled. Two vacancie^ J exist in the legislative branch by reason of appointments to the revenue service. Sen» ator Ke.ly, of the Thirty-fifth Senatorial^ ; District, has resigned, to take the place oci cupied by Gen. C. W. Pavey, and Andrei Welch, House meihlwr from the Severn*; teenth Senatorial District, resigns to tak# the place of Xncien Crooken*^5 - • * , • > • : : Some Illinois History* The following extracts are taken D. W. Lusk's "Politics and Politicians Ulinois:" Since Illinois was admitted into thS1 Uuion as a State there lure been twentj^ gubernatorial elections. Under the constiw. tut.on of 1818 the Governor was ineligible V : ; to a second election in succession, and th§f same provision existed in the constitution;: of 1848, but in that of 1870 this restriction, was omitted. French, Oglesby, and Cnl* lom are the only persons who have helft the oflice twice. The constitution of 1848 legislated French out of office, and he was, re-elected th it year. Oglesby was elected the second time after the lapse of font years. Cnlloin, under the constitution of : 1870, was e'ected to succeed himself. Thft names of the Governors ard given chrono* logica'.ly: S Shadrach Bond becime Governor Octo­ ber 6. 1818; Edward Coles, December %'; 18&2; Niniau Edwards, December 6,182Cfe« ' John Reynolds, December 9, 1830. Rey» t liolds was elected to Congress in 1834, amjt William L. D. Ewing. lieutenant governor,. succeeded to the office November I7jtr Joseph Duncan became governor Decern- * ber 3, 1831; Thomas Carlin, December 18<S; Thomas Ford, December 8, 1843$ Augustus C. French, December 9, 184t^; and again Januaty 8, 1849; Joel A. Matte^V , son, January, 1853; William H. Bissel^j January 12, i857. Bissell died March 1:"V- i860, and John Wood, lieutenant governors succeeded to the ottce March 21, 186(gii>- liiclmrd Yates became governor January, 14, 1861; Richard J. Oglesby, January lt£' 1865, and agiin January 13, 1873; John M^;. ' Palmer, Jauuary 11. 18S9. In 1873 Govfe,; ' Oglesby was elected United States Senatoit^ ; , and John L. Beveiidge, lieutenant goveino^ succeeded to the < tfice January 23, l87«Sj$? Shelby M. Cullom became governor Jam* v aty 8, 1877, aud again January 10, 188t^ He was elected United States Senator i4; 1883, and John M. Hamilton, lieuteuaqf governor, succeeded to the office Februarjjf ' • 6, 1883. , Illinois has not yet had for Governor A citizen who was born in the State. . Of thft - * eighteen persons who have occupied th» gubernator al chair two were born in Mary* ' liimi, Boad and Edwards; one in Virginui| ' Coles; two in Pennsylvania, Reynolds auc| Ford: seven in Kentucky, Ewuig, DuncauL Carlin, Yates, Oglesby, Palmer, and CuP lom; one in New Hampshire, French; fou^g ; ; in New York, Matteson, Bissell, Woo^'^ - and Beveridge; and one in Ohio, Hamilton. How rapidly the new generations come t|^f assume the duties and cares of govern^,: ment! None of these are living save Oglesb; by, Palmer, Beveridge, Cullom, and Ham4?, ifton. Bond died April 13, 1832, at Kasi*S kaskia; Edwards, July 20, 1833; Duncaq^'. Jan. 15, 1844; Ewing, March 25,1840; For<% > NoV. 2, 1850; Carlin, Feb. 14, 1852;Bisse:£ March 15, 1860, at Springfield; French^, ' Sept. 4, 1864, at Lebanon; Reynolds, Maf^*" 8, 1865, at Belleville; Coles, July 7, 1868, ; Philadelphia; Matteson, January, 1873, at Chicago; Yates, Nov. 28, 1873, at St. Louia,' > ' at Barnum's Hotel; Wood, June 4, 1880. Iu Ford's history we fiud this account ofv the first aud only duel in Illinois: , "The year 1820 was signalized by th^* first and last duel which was fought in Illijt:"l .;N nois. This took place in Belleville, Sfc.: Clair County, between Alphonso Stewart and William Bennett, two obscure men| The seconds had made it up to be a sham > duel to throw ridicule upon Bennett, th#': challenging party. Stewart was in thj#'.-! secret, but Bennett, his adversary, was left to believe it a reality. They were to fight, with rifles; the guns were loaded with blank cartridges, and Bennett, somewhat suspects ing a trick, rolled a ball into his gun, with^> r out the knowledge of his seconds or of thk other party. The word to fire was given,* * r> and Stewart fell, mortally wounded. Ben* •; nett made his escape, but two years afteiyY ward he was captured in Arkansas, brought ., ; back to the State, indicted, tried, and eon^ ( victed of murder. A great effort was madg| % to procure him a pardon, but Gov. Bon A would yield to no entreaties in his favor, aud Bennett suffered the extreme penalty' of the law. by hanging, in the presence c4;: 'o a great multitude of people. "This was the first and last duel evegj^> fought in the State by any of its citissn^.*.. The hanging of Bennett made dueling disfc? ! creditable and unpopular, and laid th|^ i <T foundation for the abhorrence of the pruv „ tice which has ever since bean felt anp!".j expressed by the people of Illinois." There were afterward some pretenses duels between some of the distinguished^ men of the State, notably that of 1842. ba*; tween James Shields and Abraham Lin* coin, which was caused by the publieatioif^' of an article in a newspaper, the Sanganio||^ ? ' « Journal, reflecting on the official condujl ; < of Shields while Auditor of State; and be» * tween Shields and William Butler, growinjf out of the same matter. But the frauier*. of the Constitution* of 1848 put an end to the barbarous practice in a summary man* ner, in the adoption of Section 25 of Arti« cle 13. which is in these words: "Any person who shall, after the adop^.^ tion of this Consti:ntion, fight a duel, ot? send or aoe pt a challenge for that purpose^ - or be aider or abettor in lighting a duel, shall be deprived of the rij^ht of holding any office of h-mor or profit in this State*"] and shall be punished otherwise, in sncli- manner as is or may be prescribed by law.* The framers of the Constitution of 1870, doubtless believing that the civilization of the age was against d ieting, did not carry - that provision into the new Constitution* , ^ ;•> ^ thus leaving public opinion to frown do wit . . the code. --Jack Shay, a switchman. : / : •. •• •• i , - -v . :